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Fox News reports on the latest research enabled by internet Cloud technology, which confirms the old lore about monkeys and typewriters. Will enough monkeys with typewriters eventually type the complete works of Shakespeare? A technologist in Nevada is harnessing an army of virtual monkeys to show just that.

A previous effort to do this with real monkeys failed to sound like the Bard, and we quote thus:

In 2003, scientists at the Paignton Zoo and the University of Plymouth, in Devon, England, reportedly left six Sulawesi Crested Macaque monkeys with a computer keyboard for a month. Not only did the monkeys produce nothing but five pages consisting largely of the letter S, they began by attacking the keyboard with a stone, then proceeded to urinate and defecate on it.

Having just successfully recreated a typical faculty meeting, however, the six Sulawesi Crested Macaque monkeys were deemed leadership material and promoted.