"If a million monkeys typing might eventually produce the collected works of Shakespeare, wouldn't a million penguins do just as well? A major book publisher is hoping so with a FOSS-powered online project to create a collaborative novel--and appropriately, that publisher is Penguin.
"Called 'a global experiment in new media writing,' A Million Penguins is Penguin UK's public experiment in taking what it says are the 'social values' seen at work in open source software and applying them to the act of imaginative fiction..."