The Poetry of Google Translate

Someday when you're bored, go write a poem into Google Translate. Translate it from English to another language (preferably one with a radically different structure--Chinese or Japanese would work best).

Copy your result and switch the languages so that you are now translating from the other language to English. Paste your earlier result and observe the new version of your poem on the right.

The poems don't always turn out very good or funny (the one I used for the how-to example was a failure--I had to dig it out of the virtual trash bin), but it can be an amusing, even slightly educational, way to waste your time.