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Alex Dragulescu’s Spam Plants are computer-generated organisms of which the attributes are determined by varying factors in spam e-mails — subject lines, headers and footers, etc. The colour of a plant is based on the name of the e-mail sender, and the time the message was delivered determines the size of the plant. Finally, the size of the e-mail influences how bushy the plant grows, and certain keywords such as “Nigerian” can grow more branches.

According to this CNET article, now he’s working on a piece of software called Blogbot that can “write” experimental graphic novels based on text harvested from thousands of blogs.

(via Information Aesthetics)