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The Guardian Shifts To Twitter After 188 Years of Ink
teflon_king writes with news that renowned British newspaper The Guardian will be abandoning its paper-and-ink distribution scheme and publishing all articles and news as Tweets. Quoting:
"A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include '1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!;' 'OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5x6e for more;' and 'JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?' Sceptics have expressed concerns that 140 characters may be insufficient to capture the full breadth of meaningful human activity, but social media experts say the spread of Twitter encourages brevity, and that it ought to be possible to convey the gist of any message in a tweet. For example, Martin Luther King's legendary 1963 speech on the steps of the Lincoln memorial appears in the Guardian's Twitterised archive as 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by,' eliminating the waffle and bluster of the original."
I wonder if this will make the guardian more interesting to read..
Since I have the attention span of woah, Britney Spears just ate an entire bowl of rusty nails on live TV.
What was I saying? Oh, right. As I was saying, if cars continue to run on haha, nice bewbs! then we'll definitely need to see improvement in the White House.
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Tweet: To send a message on twitter.
Twat: Any journalist that reports on/about twitter.
And are they going to post the news in the Lolcat language ??
Achievement Whore, the new Karma Whore.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
You'd think that after the story yesterday, they would come up with something a little less obvious. The whole premise of the fools joke is to get people to believe it, at least temporarily. How can a paper, who only 24 hours before complained about the lack of funding on the internet, possibly goto an internet only distribution system? I might be getting old, but in my eyes, no april fools joke will ever match up to the seminal BBC prank. Now to stop those damn kids skateboarding on the sidewalk...
*Whoosh* He was a great man. He was a preacher and a political activist who played a pivotal role in the history of the US but I think he would be disturbed by this "worship" of him given that he was a humble man of faith. You act like someone was disrespecting a revered prophet or something. It's a joke. You are supposed to laugh. For crying out loud, christians can take light hearted jokes and even tell them to each other but this cult of personality surrounding King Jr seems to have no sense of humour.
Jesus was a compassionate social conservative who called individuals to sin no more.
Screw the achievements, where are all the PONIES?!
I never get used to these constant resurrections
Your post advocates a
(X) moronic ( ) Totalitarian (X) consumer-driven (X) Charles Brosonish ( ) Governmental
approach to humor. Your "OMGPonies!" will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular post, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(X) Your post was simply unfunny.
(X) Mailing lists and other legitimate websites would not bother stealing it from you
(X) Monkeys simply can't aim that well.
( ) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
(X) Slashdot will attempt to use this as an unfunny meme
(X) Users of email will not put up with it
(X) Linus Torvalds did not even chuckle
(X) The police will tour again
(X) Requires the attention span of a gnat
(X) Requires immediate total cooperation of God in Heaven
(X) The meme is tired and worn out and I'm just as likely to get a -1 troll as a +5 funny.
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Asshats
(X) Technically illiterate politicians
(X) Extreme stupidity on the part of people in general
(X) Outlook
(X) Asshats
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(X) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown funny
(X) We should be able to talk about Viagra without being censored
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
(X) unfunny jokes do nothing to solve the problem
(X) Temporary/one-line jokes are cumbersome
( ) I don't want the government thinking your lame
(X) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(X) Sorry dude, but that is simply unfunny.
(X) Once you go OMGPonies! you can never go back.
(X) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
(X) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
(X) What you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone on this site is now dumber for having read it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
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In other news, the release date for Duke Nukem Forever has been announced....
You know, I remember when April Fools jokes about DNF's release date were fresh and new.
When even april fools day jokes about your release date become stale, that might be a hint you've waited just a tad too long to release your product.