Comments on: Into Every Malformed URL A Little Haiku Must Fall

Into Every Malformed URL A Little Haiku Must Fall

mmahaffie — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:47:17 -0800

~~File Not Found~~ Philosophical Haiku
The Motley Fool site
Offers quiet Haiku, for
others' "File Not Found."
(via)

By: loquacious

loquacious — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:59:54 -0800

Like seasons turning Thread fills with many haiku Thanks to mmahaffie

By: painquale

painquale — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:03:25 -0800

Does 'mmahaffie' have three syllables? I can't tell.

By: mmahaffie

mmahaffie — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:04:35 -0800

Yes, I was (and am) Afraid that many Haiku Will fall like fall leaves.

By: mmahaffie

mmahaffie — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:05:43 -0800

Aside to painquale: Yes. The "mm's" simply lengthen the first.

By: jikel_morten

jikel_morten — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:08:18 -0800

Which sound is louder A solitary hand clapping Or a file not found? Is that 5-8-5? Or is that legitimate - 8 in the middle?

By: psmealey

psmealey — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:19:47 -0800

I am worried that Someone will link to that awful Thread on rape haiku

By: HTuttle

HTuttle — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:37:11 -0800

Haiku is the most annoying asinine bullcrap ever to cross an ocean.

By: Firas

Firas — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:59:15 -0800

I hope HTuttle Appreciates it's not just Prose with line breaks--more! But yeah, count me in the sonnet or villanelle camp. Three phrases just don't cut it. Anyway, 'easter eggs' like those are always nice to find. The corporate web sorely misses a sense of humour. Although so does corporate anything, I suppose. Poetry almost always works for creative 404s, more at the 404 Research Lab.

By: aaronetc

aaronetc — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:59:59 -0800

Ironically, The post's code, in Safari, Breaks the RSS

By: dhartung

dhartung — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:03:55 -0800

Haiku error messages were the topic of a 1998 competition at Salon.com. It's trivial to whip up a script to insert one at random in a 404 page.

By: cmonkey

cmonkey — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 19:27:43 -0800

The BeOS web browser, NetPositive, had stupid haiku error messages back in 1999. These Motley Fool people are certainly not breaking new creative ground here.

By: kenko

kenko — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 20:25:40 -0800

cmonkey: I looked and I saw There is nothing new under Mean ol' Mr. Sun.

By: kjh

kjh — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 21:36:18 -0800

a file firefly flits, flowing ones and zeroes always out of reach

By: cali

cali — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 23:53:27 -0800

Too quickly move your Fingers across the keyboard Errors have been made

By: aws17576

aws17576 — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:25:25 -0800

Haiku's inventor Must have had seven fingers On his middle hand

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:22:54 -0800

Is that 5-8-5? Or is that legitimate - 8 in the middle? 'Solitary' can be Pronounced with two syllables In some dialects