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Twitter Parodies: 9 Top Literary Fakes

Mashable!  Sun, 09/11/2011 - 20:05

It might be considered surprising that a platform that limits its users to 140 characters has so many literary-themed accounts.

Our favorite of these are the parody accounts, spoofing famous authors from beyond the grave.

For the purposes of entertainment and inspiration, we’ve pulled together our best-of selection.

Although there are many accounts that just push out the written word of authors, we’ve focussed on those that comment and engage using a particular author’s voice.


 

The Desktop is to be Dapper No More

Linux Today  Fri, 07/10/2009 - 10:04

Linux Journal: ""All Things have an End," said Jonathan Swift, "and a Pudden has two." Such is the case for Ubuntu as well, and later this month the first of the ends will come due for its longstanding legacy, the Dapper Drake."


 

The Desktop is to be Dapper No More

Linux Journal - The Original Magazine of the Linux Community  Thu, 07/09/2009 - 13:52

"All Things have an End," said Jonathan Swift, "and a Pudden has two." Such is the case for Ubuntu as well, and later this month the first of the ends will come due for its longstanding legacy, the Dapper Drake.

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