I have no association with this project (i.e. I just like it but am in no way responsible for its wonderfulness) but thought that it was beautiful. There is a story behind each short message and this intrigues me. From the twistori site: "this is the first step in an ongoing social experiment, based on twitter. inspired by wefeelfine and drawing data from summize, hand-crafted by amy hoy and thomas fuchs."

Some of messages that made me think of stories right away:

• I love when I can sleep in a little before hauling my roadshow somewhere else.
• I hate to open my inbox in the morning. I think bunnies should deliver my mail to me.
• I wish was a fisherman, tumbling out at sea.
• I feel so dirty. Just added a spacer gif to page. I haven't done that for about 5 years.
• I believe in god. And frankly it scares me.
• I think the smell is infiltrating the air conditioning.
  

About wefeelfine.org (the inspiration for the project):

"Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and "I am feeling". When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the "feeling" expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved."

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