Stephen Fry to judge Guardian Hay festival's Twitter competition The host of literary heavyweights to descend on the Guardian Hay festival may be more used to reviewing substantial literary works, but messages of 140 characters or fewer are set to share the festival stage this year in the search to find the most beautiful tweet ever written. The search for the winning tweet begins tomorrow and ends a week on Friday, and the tweets will be judged by the unofficial king of Twitter, actor and writer Stephen Fry. "The definition of most beautiful tweet could fall into a number of different categories: it could prove the most eloquent; the most impassioned; the best demonstration of a clever pun or metaphor; the most evocative description of a place or emotion, or perhaps prove that brevity is conducive to levity, and be the wittiest tweet ever committed to the Twittersphere," said the festival's founder and director, Peter Florence. "There are a lot of clever, inspiring and intuitive tweets from people taking a lot of care in their tweets.
Operating Systems Tech Support: "May I ask what operating system you are running today?"Customer: "A computer." A girl walked into the computer center where I work. She said she was having problems with her Mac. I asked what kind of Mac she had. Tech Support: "What operating system are you running? After conferring with her husband, it turned out she owned a Macintosh with System 8.1. Tech Support: "What version of Windows are you running?" A kid in my class joined a conversation I was having about older computers. Him: "I have the oldest Windows ever at my house. Tech Support: "What operating system do you run?" Tech Support: "Do you know what operating system you're on?" Customer: "I don't use DOS. One time I had to walk a Windows 95 user through a particular procedure. Me: "First you need to open DOS-prompt. My Friend: "I just installed Windows 98." My Friend: "What's your operating system?" Friend: "I heard about this thing called 'Linux'." Friend: "Does Windows 98 support Linux?" Overheard in a classroom:
Euphorie: Lena Meyer-Landrut soll auf Horst Köhler folgen - Nach Artikel per E-Mail empfehlen Lena Meyer-Landrut soll auf Horst Köhler folgen Wahnsinn: Nach dem Sieg beim Eurovision Song Contest warten ganz neue Aufgaben auf Hoffnungsträgerin Lena Meyer-Landrut. Wahnsinn: Nach dem Sieg beim Eurovision Song Contest warten ganz neue Aufgaben auf Hoffnungsträgerin Lena Meyer-Landrut. Von Jean Gnatzig Deutschland im Freudentaumel: Zum ersten Mal seit 1982 ist das Land Sieger beim Eurovision Song Contest. Ein phänomenaler Erfolg, den in dieser Konsequenz keiner erwartet hätte: Seitdem Lena Meyer-Landrut den Eurovision Song Contest gewonnen hat, scheint in Deutschland das erste Mal seit Winterbeginn wieder die Sonne, das Oder-Hochwasser ist vorerst gestoppt und Roland Koch bleibt bei seinem Vorhaben, dass er zurücktreten will. Lenas Vorbild macht Schule Kein Wunder, dass Lenas Vorbild Schule macht. Glücklicherweise reagiert man in Lenas Heimat ansonsten völlig unhysterisch auf den Sieg der Hannoveranerin.
“Stuff No One Told Me” fun illustrations » This Blog Rules | Why There are several things in life that you already know and have learned but you seem to forget it because no one tells and reminds you of them. Illustrator Alex from Barcelona has introduced these type of statements by making cute and funny illustrations. You will probably agree with a lot of them. An illustration is a displayed visualization form presented as a drawing, painting, photograph or other work of art that is created to elucidate or dictate sensual information (such as a story, poem or newspaper article) by providing a visual representation graphically. Crunch - Dave's Demolition Service! See more great video on the multimedia page! Video of my car running over stuff! Any requests? Want something crushed?Send me an e-mail describing an item you have whichyou would like to see crushed. If I approve the item,I will send you an address where you can send your doomed item! Gingerbread House! See Crunch Archive for more great crunches! [Home] - [Site Map] - [Donate] - [Car Shows] - [Multimedia] - [Photos] - [Links] - [Contact] Copyright© 2003 StillRuns.com
why americans should never be allowed to travel I had someone ask for an aisle seats so that his or her hair wouldn't get messed up by being near the window. A client called in inquiring about a package to Hawaii. After going over all the cost info, she asked, "Would it be cheaper to fly to California and then take the train to Hawaii?" I got a call from a woman who wanted to go to Capetown. A man called, furious about a Florida package we did. I got a call from a man who asked, "Is it possible to see England from Canada?" Another man called and asked if he could rent a car in Dallas. A nice lady just called. A woman called and asked, "Do airlines put your physical description on your bag so they know who's luggage belongs to who?" I just got off the phone with a man who asked, "How do I know which plane to get on?" A woman called and said, "I need to fly to Pepsi-cola on one of those computer planes." A businessman called and had a question about the documents he needed in order to fly to China.
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Thirteen Writing Prompts. [Originally published May 4, 2006.] Write a scene showing a man and a woman arguing over the man’s friendship with a former girlfriend. Do not mention the girlfriend, the man, the woman, or the argument. Write a short scene set at a lake, with trees and shit. Choose your favorite historical figure and imagine if he/she had been led to greatness by the promptings of an invisible imp living behind his or her right ear. Write a story that ends with the following sentence: Debra brushed the sand from her blouse, took a last, wistful look at the now putrefying horse, and stepped into the hot-air balloon. A wasp called the tarantula hawk reproduces by paralyzing tarantulas and laying its eggs into their bodies. Imagine if your favorite character from 19th-century fiction had been born without thumbs. Write a story that begins with a man throwing handfuls of $100 bills from a speeding car, and ends with a young girl urinating into a tin bucket.
Timothy McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Global War On Bedbugs: Letters from Bedbug City. George Orwell had bedbugs. Down and Out in Paris and London opens with the owner of a hotel in Paris hollering a reminder at one of her patrons not to squash bedbugs against the wallpaper. They bothered him all over Paris. He eventually stumbled upon a remedy, though not before going hungry one night after knocking a bug into a half a liter of milk on which he had spent his last eighty centimes. One of his friends recommended sprinkling black pepper all over his sheets. Chekhov also had bedbugs. Bob Slocum, the narrator of Joseph Heller’s Something Happened, has “visions these days when I am lying alone in strange beds in hotels or motels, trying to put myself to sleep, of being assailed by filthy hordes of stinging fleas or bedbugs against which I am utterly inept because I am too squeamish to endure them and have no other place to go.” The eponymous character of “Big Boy Leaves Home,” a story by Richard Wright, is told by his friend that he is “crazys a bed-bug!” A.O.
A friend watches movies with you. A GOOD friend helps you count the bodies.