# Programmatic Day In his book [Uncreative Writing](http://cup.columbia.edu/book/uncreative-writing/9780231149907), Kenneth Goldsmith explores where the lines between authorship and appropriation lie in the age of digital media. [Day](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/764260.Day) is one of his examples of uncreative writing: It is a poem featuring all text published in the New York Times of september 1, 2000. From op-ed to advertisement, everything is set in Times New Roman 12pt. > 'I began retyping the day's New York Times, word for word, letter for letter, from the upper left hand corner to the lower right hand corner, page by page.' Programmatic Day is a small python script to create your own version of Day, based on the homepage of nytimes.com. After running the script you get a PDF with all text of the digital frontpage of today.