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This is a link post I write like...
Website analyses your writing, and tell you who you're similar to in style.

Not tremendously accurate: I've varied between Arthur C Clarke, Dan Brown and HP Lovecraft depending on what I've put in. Interesting though.
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:01, Reply)
This is a normal post Right...
So this news item about sharks is in the style of James Joyce, but this item about the size of the proton is in the style of Douglas Adams.

Interesting...
 (I helped save b3ta! TheAlmightyBeev, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Stephen King
I don't know if this is good or bad.
 (I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:11, Reply)
This is a normal post Well, it's better than Dan Brown.

(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:14, Reply)
This is a normal post Haha- Oh cock.
I got that too. was going for Pratchett.
 (I helped save b3ta! Filthy narwhal titty titty tits tits tits, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:17, Reply)
This is a normal post Apparently the author Margaret Atwood
tried it and it told her she wrote like Stephen King. Pissed on her bonfire too.
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:19, Reply)
This is a normal post Good if you want to be rich.
Bad if you ever want decent female characters in your stuff.
 (I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:56, Reply)
This is a normal post hmmmm
I tried 4 different pieces and always got David Foster Wallace - with whom I'm not familiar.
 (I helped save b3ta! bennyhillslovechild, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:13, Reply)
This is a normal post Me too

(I helped save b3ta! ERG1008 is climbing in yo windows & snatchin yo people up, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:04, Reply)
This is a normal post I got Douglas Adams with a little bit of HP Lovecraft

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:15, Reply)
This is a normal post Best opening line of a Barry White song ever.

(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:16, Reply)
This is a normal post hahaha :)

(I helped save b3ta! The Great Architect is still waiting for his account to be deleted on, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:17, Reply)
This is a normal post I got Margaret Atwood
which was unlikely but sort of cool
 (I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:20, Reply)
This is a normal post That is sort of cool
in an ageing Canadian author way
 (I helped save b3ta! The Legendary Pink Dot survived yet another, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:25, Reply)
This is a normal post Cripes - Dan Brown!
I must change the way I write about preposterous biblical conspiracy theories!!!
 (I helped save b3ta! The Legendary Pink Dot survived yet another, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:23, Reply)
This is a normal post he's about the best selling author of our time
he must be doing something right
 (I helped save b3ta! rob, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:25, Reply)
This is a normal post The red-faced writer,
wearing a brown jacket with creased sleeves and with an empty bottle on his prestigious desk overlooking the Champs Elysee, felt embarrassed.
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)
This is a normal post yeah me too
and that was analysing a bit of my dissertation :(

tried it with another part and got George Orwell
 (I helped save b3ta! Rebel biscuit stercore sumus et nos esse novimus, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:29, Reply)
This is a normal post Hmm
I pasted in chapter 1 of 坊っちゃん (by 夏目漱石).

Apparently he writes like Neil Gaiman.
 (I helped save b3ta! revolution now 👊, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:27, Reply)
This is a normal post JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, David Foster Wallace (eh?) and Ursula K. Le Guin (who?)...
From four different blog entries off www.theodysseyexpedition.com - Then I put in a blog entry that mentioned Vogons and I got Douglas Adams. Methinks it's a little un-scientific.
 (thatgingerscouser (bloke what went to every country without flying), Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:36, Reply)
This is a normal post George Orwell now?!
Crikey let's see if I can get all forty badges!
 (thatgingerscouser (bloke what went to every country without flying), Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:40, Reply)
This is a normal post Ursula K. Le Guin - reasonably famous Sci-Fi writer
I like her short stories.
 (Heaping Spoonful of sugar, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:03, Reply)
This is a normal post Lovecraft all the way baby
I have no idea if that's a good or a bad thing
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:38, Reply)
This is a normal post He's a famous horror writer
of the early 20th Century. Did the Necromicon. Lots of Gothic style, all very sinister and macabre, and a big influence on Stephen King. Though he wrote in quite an old-fashioned way.

Also a big anti-semite.
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:49, Reply)
This is a normal post I know who he is and what he wrote
just never read it so am unaware if he's a good writer or not
 (I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:51, Reply)
This is a normal post Ah - me too.

(Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:07, Reply)
This is a normal post Read everything of his (as a teen, natch).
Very much of-his-era. Somewhat clunky prose, dialogue & narrative. Some nice imagery, imagined-mythology.
His short story "The Colour out of Space" is my favourite, foreshadowing nuclear-worries soon to come- however, genuinely eerie/unsettling.

(at the risk of sounding like a cunt- none of the authours listed above are obscure at all, what's the most unusual authour that's come up?)
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:35, Reply)
This is a normal post What should I start with
if I wanted to try something of his?
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:39, Reply)
This is a normal post "The Colour out of Space"
(as above)
Though there was one set in the antarctic that was quite atmospheric I remember. Avoid "The Shadow over Innsmouth" that I seem to remember was hideously racist/anti-semitic (which is what I meant by "of-the era").
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:49, Reply)
This is a normal post Yay for Project Gutenberg!
gutenberg.net.au/ebooks06/0600031h.html#03
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:53, Reply)
This is a normal post That's the bugger
For full effect, save to read on a dark night in winter, in bed, alone.
You'll shit fish.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:17, Reply)
This is a normal post "You'll shit fish"
is wonderful. I must steal that.
 (Land of Green Ginger It's dreamy weather, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:06, Reply)
This is a normal post I got James Joyce.
About right for my style of qotw posts- practically unreadable.
 (I helped save b3ta! jim_bob can herd cats., Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)
This is a normal post pfff
three paragraphs together: Dan Brown
the same three paragraphs (individually): Nabokov, Dickens, Douglas Adams.
 (I helped save b3ta! Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:46, Reply)
This is a normal post I keep getting David Foster Wallace,
though am not familiar with his work so can't really judge that.
 (I helped save b3ta! benryves Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 13:47, Reply)
This is a normal post Me too

(I helped save b3ta! megapowerskills is farming apple meat, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 17:05, Reply)
This is a normal post ooh James Joyce
classy!
 (I helped save b3ta! Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something., Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)
This is a normal post Charles mutherfuckin' Dickens.
I simply must get myself a stovepipe hat and a monocle.
 (UltimateMonkey Ban this sick filth!, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:01, Reply)
This is a normal post How fabulous!
Oscar Wilde!
 (I helped save b3ta! Herb Alpert's Taxi Driver I have very beautiful lips, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:32, Reply)
This is a normal post Douglas Adams
Score!

No idea how my ramblings on plotting 2d spirals using polar coordinates in anyway resemble Mr Adam's fine work, but still...
 (I helped save b3ta! LemonEntryMyDearWatson This time, Moriarty, the hand is on the other foot, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 14:53, Reply)
This is a normal post David Foster Wallace, apparently
never read anything by him
 (Heaping Spoonful of sugar, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:01, Reply)
This is a normal post My review of Lifeforce
is written like HP LOVECRAFT!

So what's the site flogging?
Its such a mess I couldn't work it out
 (I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:16, Reply)
This is a normal post I got David Foster Wallace
By writing fuck your mum, over and over again. I must read this Wallace fellow.
 (Peljammy Watching Godzilla, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:44, Reply)
This is a normal post Ooops
That was meant to be a general reply. My bad *grovels*
 (Peljammy Watching Godzilla, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 15:52, Reply)