<sheep>bahhhh</sheep>. Here’s the deal:
- Grab the nearest book.
- Open the book to page 23.
- Find the fifth sentence.
- Post the text of the sentence on your blog along with these instructions.
Depending on how you count it, my fifth sentence is either “Today they perform strenuous verbal feats to escape that fate.” or “Watch them wriggle through TV interviews without committing themselves.”
A cookie to the first person to guess the book. Hint: the author’s initials are W.Z.
In other news, Dougal hints at a secret. Don’t click. The Zeldmans finally announce their new joy.
Excerpts from On Writing Well by William Zinsser
i am such a loser
Wow, that was fast.
This thing is taking over all blogs 😮
Well it is the perfect meme. Esoteric enough to appeal to all ranges of bloggers. It capitalizes on the essence of blogging: talking about yourself. Let’s people share what they’re reading, and people often try to impress each other with what they’re reading. It’s easy. The rules dictate spread.
woo! my first trackback… because i needed a reason. 🙂
Basically a cookie went to whomever knew to Google search the quickest/was at your site first too:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=Today+they+perform+strenuous+verbal+feats+to+escape+that+fate
I remember it being on your bookshelf as well, new fan to the site, listening via RSS and inspired by your design and code prowess. 🙂
Ain’t that the damn truth! 🙂
Hm… That was supposed to have been blockquoted…
If someone at Amazon Marketing didn’t invent this, they should have. Amazon’s “Search inside the book” feature would find such quotes more reliably than anything else (at the moment), Google included.
In other, other news, Jeffrey and Carrie have exciting news about a forthcoming arrival!