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Wired's Very Short Stories
Wired's games blog Game|Life alerted me to a great feature on the main Wired site. Called Very Short Stories, the piece features the work of 33 well-known writers practicing their craft in six word chunks. Their work is combined with several talented graphic designers to generate some very creative works of art. Some of my favorites: "The baby's blood type? Human, mostly'. - Orson Scott Card
'Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.' - Richard Powers
'Kirby had never eaten toes before.' - Kevin Smith" The games blog makes a point to highlight the works of game writers Mark Laidlaw and Steve Meretzky. Laidlaw's contribution: ">Help! Trapped in a text adventure!" Alrighty, folks ... let's hear yours.
'Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses.' - Richard Powers
'Kirby had never eaten toes before.' - Kevin Smith" The games blog makes a point to highlight the works of game writers Mark Laidlaw and Steve Meretzky. Laidlaw's contribution: ">Help! Trapped in a text adventure!" Alrighty, folks ... let's hear yours.
I think Edward Albee was the master of this.
"Poison; meditation; skiing; ants - nothing worked." -Edward Albee
the more accurate the calculations became, the more the concepts tended to vanish into thin air. R. S. Mulliken
You insensitive clod! Expand the acronym!
Reading code is like reading the dictionary - you have to read half of it before you can go back and understand it.
Using only six words is supercalafragilisticexpialadocious.
Build a man a fire, he's warm for one night. Set him on fire, and he's warm for the rest of his life.
We are all made of stars
I always wondered about that, then I realized he was actually singing "This song's just six words long". I just checked the official song title on his web site and sure enough, it's "(This Song's Just) Six Words Long".
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.