They make me smile everyday: Algorithmically generated Haikus from NYT articles. My current favourite: «The key insight was / recognizing that these were / all types of pasta.»

From Weekly Filet #109, in April 2013.

Times Haiku

The New York Times

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Newspaper Blackout

Austin Kleon

abstrakt Abstrakt: John Powers

Generator.X

Optical illusion painting changes its perspective as you move around it

Sploid

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Austin Kleon

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