You gotta love the Weekly World News (or any paper that can run a headline that reads "MONKEYS TYPE SHAKESPEARE PLAY"). Apparently 5,000 monkeys with typewriters are almost as good as an infinite number:
[…] "We've been holding our breath for weeks," says Alan Ripshaw, the researcher in charge of the Monkey Project. "We knew the monkeys were getting close, but we've had a number of false starts.Posted by rv at December 20, 2004 04:37 PM to humor"One time they got to the fourth act of Macbeth, before making a mistake. The monkeys also recently typed out a Thomas Pynchon novel, but that doesn't count." […]