Creative constraints  

Via Metafilter here's a site admonishing all you creative writers to use certain predetermined fragments in your writing. It's supposed to help you get a creative start. Reminds me of OuLiPo constraints, except that they're usually a little more constraining - and also of a little conspiracy a few months ago to get folks to use the word "oulipo" in their blogs, to cause an artificial (?) wordburst.

The real mystery is what Lawrence Ferlinghetti has to do with the site - there's his picture at the top, and it's not clear who else the page's narrator could be. But it seems, well, improbable that a guy like him and a two-bit web writing contest could have anything to do with one another...