I’ve seen a few people mention Hemmingway’s 6-word story in the last year, which I hadn’t heard of before. The story is:

For sale: baby shoes, never worn

There’s a flickr group for 6-word stories, though most of them aren’t too good. Wired had an article in which they asked a bunch of different writers to try writing 6-word stories. There are quite a few… some of them are quite amusing, though most of them seem like summaries instead of stories.

I wonder if there’s a minimum length a piece of text must have for it to be copyrighted…

Oldboy, a Korean movie that I recommended a while ago, popped into my head recently. Specifically, the scene in which the protagonist eats a live octopus:

(turn down the volume, the dubbing is terrible)

I was looking for the 3 minute fight scene that’s filmed without interruption, but I could only find the scene with different songs dubbed over it, which was annoying.

The whole scene synced to the theme of Brazil (annoying music, but awesome because it’s a dozen bad guys, one good guy, and a hammer):

I was less annoyed when I found the scene sped up and put to the Benny Hill theme:

Meme from here, who knows where it’ll end up.

The political stuff on Scripting News has been top-notch lately. I was especially fond of Find a shared vision, v2.0.

Obama seems to be the most popular candidate in Silicon Valley, at least among technology people (except for one coworker who doesn’t like Obama because “he left his grandmother in Kenya!”). Obama’s website has a fairly extensive section about technology, most of which makes a lot of sense.

He announced his technology platform at Google last November, actually: