Graham's mention of "supreme bootywhang" in blogging reminded me of an idea
I had a while ago, which would apply that idea literally: an automatic weblog using
genetic algorithms. The weblog engine would monitor several other blogs and,
using a set of weights/rules/criteria, steal items from several blogs a day.
Each item in a daily edition would be put there by a different chromosome
from that pool; the daily hit count and/or a user rating mechanism à la
BlogHop would assign accumulating fitness scores to the day's chromosomes.
After each chromosome had been rated a number of times (to smooth out
discontinuities and help ensure meaningful scores), the next generation would
be produced, by randomly breeding the chromosomes, with each having a probability of breeding proportional to its fitness.
I don't quite have the time to code this right now (especially the
link-stealing code), but if anyone wants to do it, let me know what you come
up with.