Just seen that all my toiling and grinding to make sense of things has been summed up over at "Mash Up" as follows:

The lieutenant borrowed this remarkable map and had a secret Ninja squad, and I see no reason why this shouldn't apply to feeds

Made me smile, but I was a little bit confused, though obviously delighted at the pithy precis and investigated further. Gell Anderson (?) Saurier explained the point of the mashing as follows:

A while ago I developed a tool which transforms the spam I recieve into aleatoric sugar. This little experiment takes the input from blogs I like.

Well it's definitely aleatoric. The sugar for me came from seeing something truly random - it put what I see in my aggregator each morning into sharp relief.

If God doesn't play dice with the universe (that is if), then I think it's fair to say the we, as humans, don't play dice with words. I'm not sure we even can. Which means that, for all the weird, complex, confusing things you see out there, they all have a bit of "soul".