Wired invited readers to submit 6 word short stories (Sci-Fi). Fascinating exercise! (I once did a 5 sec short car commercial :)

My Fav Shorts from the contest (Link):

“Computer, did we bring batteries? Computer?”
“Easy. Just touch the match to”
“Help! Trapped in a text adventure!”
“He read his obituary with confusion.”
“Steve ignores editor’s word limit and”
“Longed for him. Got him. Shit.”

I wish I knew about this, some of my own:

Scifi:
“Lost Love, Searched everywhere, found 404″
“Hello World, Hello?”
“Tired? Check Batteries before calling 911″
“[space] the last frontier”
“This month, my word quota is”

Drama:
“She practiced grammer, but not spellengue”
“Amensia? Remember to… nevermind”

Horror:
“She ran, but got ran over”
“AB+ needed. For Table 4″

ahh, I give up…

If you are in Hyderabad, this is one event you can’t afford to miss. A long list of celebrity speakers are attending (including my fav Professor at IIT). I’d love to be a fly in the wall of this interesting conference. I hope they have a live/offline web telecast.

Organized by UsabilityMatters.Org, this is a 9 day exhibition starting Nov 14th in Hyderabad, India. Check out the Event Calendar for lots of interesting contests and keynote addresses.

Contests which are open to all:

1. Boycott Bad Design Prize (prizes $700)
   If the ketchup bottle cap making a mess on your table? Is the Freezer door handle hard to grab? – Send in your examples of bad design with a photograph, and those products will be put to shame in the conference, as they deserve to be.
2. International Cartoon Contest (prizes worth $1,300)
   Compete with International Cartoon stars in this juried contest. 

Check out their blog at: http://www.usabilitymatters.org/blog/