Apropos of some of the recent HN discussion of automated story writing, following one of the links on that page led me to http://www.tickrwatch.com/2011/11/abnormal-price-movement-de... , which is a "story" about abnormal price movement in the GRPN stock. It is fun because it does things like discuss the performance of the stock "in the past year" and I particularly enjoy the line "The stock may bounce back to test the 200-day moving average." I find myself wondering what code lies behind that line. Also the last line is a real gem in the field of using lots of words to ultimately say nothing concrete. Automated story writing gone bad.