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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: org-mode mailing list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Summer challenge
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:59:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A44135C-FC7A-4D2C-AA74-A68B5F45BA1B@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi,

ever heard of the IG Nobel prize [1] of the Journal of Improbable  
Research?
The annual awards meeting is always great to watch.

One of the things they do is that each speaker has to give
a 24/7 lecture on their subject. This means, they have to give
a complete technical description of their work in 24 words (may be
totaly crypic), and then a 7 word explanation that is more or
less understandable for the public, and it may be either
tongue in cheek or serious.  I find it a great exercise to
try to make these, over whatever subject.

Lets have a challenge for the best 24/7 lecture about org-mode
over the summer.  I am particular interested in good 7 word
summaries, because these are the most fun.

Examples:

A 24 summary
------------
Org-mode does outlining, note-taking, hyperlinks,
spreadsheets, TODO lists, project planning, GTD,
HTML and LaTeX authoring, all with plain text files
in Emacs.

3 examples for 7-word summary
-----------------------------
1. Plain text notes and planning magic with Emacs.
2. Back to the future for plain text.
3. Chuck Norris would not use anything else.

Enjoy

- Carsten

[1] http://improbable.com/ig/

             reply	other threads:[~2008-07-29 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-29 19:59 Carsten Dominik [this message]
2008-07-29 21:27 ` Summer challenge Bernt Hansen
2008-07-31  1:31 ` Eddward DeVilla
2008-07-31  2:16   ` Parker, Matthew
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-02 17:43 Kene Meniru
2008-08-02 20:12 ` Russell Adams
2008-08-02 20:33   ` Dmitry Dzhus
2008-11-09  8:23   ` Carsten Dominik
2008-11-09 10:20     ` Russell Adams

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