Oulipo for WordPress

January 2nd, 2009 § 3

Welcome to the demo page for the Oulipo WordPress theme. Oulipo is a fairly straightforward theme - clean and elegant with lovely typography - that doesn’t get in the way of your content. With the release of WordPress 2.7, Oulipo supports threaded comments and sticky posts. In fact, this is a sticky post. You can tell by the slightly different styling and because it’s sitting at the top of the page, outside the normal blog timeline.

Take a look around and check it out. If you like what you see, you can download it here.

A Brief History of Mal

January 2nd, 2009 § 3

Mal was found in the garden, unhatched, and incubated by a black chicken. She1 came later than the rest, towards the end of the summer, once they had already fledged and left the hen house. It was clear she was a mallard, not a muscovy, and with that the decision was made. A week later she was standing in our kitchen, peeping and looking around curiously, the hen house replaced with a Japanese apartment. We nervously welcomed her, like new parents, attempting to erase the chicken imprint and raise her with an affinity towards people (or at least us).

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Mal loved the camera from day one.

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  1. For the first four months or so we thought she was a he, and the pronoun change took some adjustment. [↩]

Hello world!

January 2nd, 2009 § 3

Oulipo (pronounced oo-lee-PO) stands for “Ouvroir de littérature potentielle”, which translates roughly as “workshop of potential literature”. It is a loose gathering of (mainly) French-speaking writers and mathematicians, and seeks to create works using constrained writing techniques. It was founded in 1960 by Raymond Queneau and François Le Lionnais. Other notable members include novelists like Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets like Oskar Pastior or Jacques Roubaud, also known as a mathematician.

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A Gallery

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