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Six technological ideas for improving publishing.

I’ve talked about the Bulwer-Lytton Contest a few times already, but did I ever mention the Lyttle Lytton Contest? It’s the same concept, but with shorter sentences and other categories. 2007, for example, they had screenplays. My favourite:

FADE IN
EXT. FIELD DAY
COW is standing in the field.

NARRATOR
The cow is sad.
(Pretending to be a mournful cow.)
Mooooooo.

Sean Kermes

Movies

Green Porno: Isabella Rosselini talks about the reproduction system of various animals in short films. [Caution: video starts itself]

Christopher Nolan’s Inception gets a better and better cast.

Wolverine movie leaked and reviewed – by Fox… And now the blogger lost his job.

Tim Jonze watches Star Wars for the first time, but before tells us what he thinks the plot is.

Their heroic captain is called Luke Skywalker and he is joined by their man-shaped pet Chewbacca, a 2ft robot, and Princess Leah; since she’s the only girl, Luke would quite like to get it on with her. I hope it’s not his sister. There’s also a gold man called Cee Three Pio who likes sweeping up after everyone (although I might be confusing him with Kryten from Red Dwarf), plus a gang of furry cats called Ewoks. A pretty crazy bunch of chums, that’s for sure. Chewbacca makes the crew laugh a lot by going: “Haaaaaaw, haaaaaaaw.” I know this because when I told my girlfriend I was writing this she went: “Haaaaaw, haaaaaw.” Then, when I looked genuinely frightened, she said: “What, you’ve never heard Chewbacca do that? That’s weird.”

Will there be a 300 prequel?