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Only a sentence in very rough terms as he's just stringing together an arbitrarily large number of noun phrases. The palindromes are of the form:

S -> "A man", "a plan", (NP,)* "a canal, Panama!"

which I suppose you could call a sentence.

Indeed. It's a fun exercise in coding but the output is very "monkey at typewriter not producing Shakespeare".

Not loading for me.

You guys know the Weird Al song, right?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg

Way more awesome. And I did not. Many thanks for the link!

Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:7e4IeWg...

That's AFAIK the longest human-made palindrome but I'm sure there must be longer ones:

http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=830538

I'd be glad to find longer ones!

Doesn't he have bigger things to worry about, like staying ahead of Bing search quality, for one?

He needs to upgrade his website (which has great content). Right now the article is not appearing for me, so maybe HN has the power of slashdotting now.

Sometimes programmers do things just for fun. Its helps stave off the urge to bludgeon themselves to death with their own keyboard.

Peter Norvig - World's Longest Palindrome Sentence?