interesting RSS feeds

Nick Sherman
23.Oct.2007 6.35pm
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I’m looking for interesting/unusual RSS feeds for an experimental type-related project. I want feeds that have random but interesting words or phrases as the title of each entry.

This one works pretty well for my purposes (and it’s funny too).
feed://www.overheardinnewyork.com/index.xml

I don’t want things that sound like news headlines or have the name of the feed in all of the titles.

Maybe a feed of famous one-liners? Or a good “word of the day” feed? (all the ones I’ve found so far have the name of the dictionary or some other additional text placed in the title)

It’d be an added bonus if the feed uses proper punctuation… smart quotes, etc

Any suggestions?



delve
23.Oct.2007 10.20pm
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Hey Nick,

Here’s one of my faves:
feed://feeds.urbandictionary.com/UrbanWordOfTheDay

Delve

P.S.- It was nice to meet you at TypeCon.


Nick Sherman
23.Oct.2007 11.20pm
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Ah, that’s a good one. I’ve actually authored a few Urban Dictionary definitions myself... I should’ve thought of that one earlier.

Anyone else?


solfeggio
24.Oct.2007 12.32am
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Nick,

Think you might also like the feed available at the “Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary”: http://www.doubletongued.org/

Regards,
Ernie


Nick Sherman
24.Oct.2007 12.52am
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Thanks Ernie, that’s a great one!

I’m still looking for some slightly longer ones... roughly sentence length. Maybe famous last words? The Six Word Stories Flickr pool is pretty good.