A million monkeys .. er penguins ... er, bloggers!

You've all heard the story that if a million monkeys typed on a million typewriters long enough they would produce the works of Shakespeare! Well someone is trying it, except they are using penguins instead of monkeys - well, they are really using bloggers.

Penguin UK have a project to let bloggers, working together using a wiki, write and edit a novel. Check it at:

http://www.amillionpenguins.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Now that's a novel idea. Of course, if blogging penguins can come up with the next blockbuster then anyone can do it.

Recently I read a scientific article, the source of which escapes me at the moment, which explored whether by watching the behaviour of a group of apes we can discover the roots of religion. Will the next project be a monkey writen Bible? That's more of a challenge than a novel - even more than the works of Shakespeare.