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MsWord. It's the veritable document standard for most of the world. Well, for material that needs to retain its flexibility and editibility for content (otherwise the unreserved emperor is Acrobat). Over the years this app has become the King Kitchen Sink of features. Spell checkers were de rigueur in the early 80's. Grammar in the late 80's. Thesaurus? Check. Fonts? Out the kazoo. Tables and bullets, templates and clip art, macro's and embedded links Word has so much... junk.

Most of these features aren't used. A sane user never would, much less someone who wants to hand off responsibility for the document and never see it again. But my coworker came up with a gem of an idea for a feature that would skyrocket Word to unfathomable popularity. Indeed this is a feature that would hardly take any work whatsoever. This feature is the "Bullshit Meter".

Utilizing Word's already useless grammar checker and some smorgasbord of the statistics and other fabulous (rarely used) features like the summary generator, Word would estimate the percentage of bullshit in the document and produce a true/false value as to whether the document was actually worth reading.

Think of the value! Already Word can summarize the document for you... but if it were to tell you, with a single mouse click, if it was worth the next hour or two of your life? Now that's priceless.