Horse_ebooks Is Human After All

An anonymous reader writes with word that two of the more intriguing memes of recent times have been outed as elaborate performance art. Bizarre Twitter-centric entities @Horse_ebooks and Pronunciation Book aren't really inexplicable, it turns out: "[These feeds] have been running for the past several years, both have the hallmarks of automation, chugging along anonymously and churning out disjointed bits of text in a very spam-like fashion, but neither is as it appears." The Escapist has a bit more, now that the horse is out of the bag.

Comments

So it's Zippy the Pinhead for the new millenium

[Anonymous Coward]

Same type of stuff. Anyone ever run yowlines on their startup-sequence?

Re:So it's Zippy the Pinhead for the new millenium

[buswolley]

I'd like to note that the article summary fails to define the subject, and assumes the reader is already informed. I have noticed this lapse in many articles on slashdot recently and it is frustrating. Sure I can look it up on Google, but why would I when the article does not have any clear explanation of why it would interest me at all?

I mean...I am reasonably informed on many geek matters, but I do not have time or interest to follow up every new internet trend.

Bad art..

[TechyImmigrant]

Bad art often occurs when 'artists' replace quality with novelty.

See horse_ebooks and Pronunciation Book for perfect examples.

Say what?

[ArcadeMan]

[These feeds] have been running for the past several years

And it's the first time I hear about them.

No soup for you! NEXT!