If you were unlucky enough to sign into Twitter this week, chances are you saw people tweeting at @tofu_product, a conversation bot of sorts. Only instead of trying to carry on a faux conversation like the AIM bots of yesterday, Tofu — as he's known — scans your tweet history and messages back a random, mostly nonsensical composite of what you sound like on Twitter.
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What if you took away all the animated loveliness that makes BuzzFeed, well, BuzzFeed? You're left with sparkling prosaic genius like this, from "8 Reasons Candy Corn is the Worst":
It's neither candy nor corn. Well, it might technically be a candy and includes corn syrup as an ingredient, but honestly, it just doesn't count. Candy corn leaves kids feeling sad and unfulfilled. Wax is an actual ingredient in candy corn. The other ingredients are sugar, corn syrup, salt, egg whites, and colorings. When trick or treating, it is almost always distributed in a homemade bag. Oreo couldn’t even make candy corn work. If you hand out candy corn on Halloween, you will be lame. You will end up with a lot of leftover wax-candy. [Tumblr]
Chris Gayomali is the science and technology editor for TheWeek.com. Previously, he was a tech reporter at TIME. His work has also appeared in Men's Journal, Esquire, and The Atlantic, among other places. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook.
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