BeOS has been reborn a number of times, often without significant success but
things are looking up. Starting in 1991 with the production of an all-in-one hardware/software home multimedia computer (the
BeBox, the first of which was
available to the public in 1994), the possible purchase by Apple was at the height of success for BeOS (instead Apple
chose to buy NeXT in 1996), and the low point of being when BeOS was
bought by Palm for $11 million in 2001, where it became part of the
Palm OS Cobalt that nobody wanted. In 2002,
news of BeOS' rebirth as yellowTAB came out, with another shift as yellowTAB became
magnussoft ZETA, which finally folded in 2007, as
their figures were far below expectations. From here, fans and enthusiasts took over, with a number of attempts to re-create BeOS from scratch. Most failed, but
Haiku (
previously) has survived, and today they announced that the
first alpha version of the Haiku operating system is
available for download (direct download or through torrent), and
a preliminary review sounds positive.
[more inside]
posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 14, 2009 -
59 comments
Horses eat a lot / prances in the lovely field / They are beautiful.
Pandas eat bamboo / All pandas live in Japan / Pandas are harmless.
CAT'S sit and lay down / CAT's are big and fluffy / My cat is a Maine coon / I'm chasing my cat.
The
assorted haiku of Bloomfield Elementary School in
Skowhegan, Maine.
posted by four panels
on Feb 10, 2007 -
34 comments
The nature of
science fiction poetry is the subject of
vigorous debate even among its own practitioners. Nonetheless, it has its own annual awards, the
Rhyslings. What wins? The first victor in 1978 was Gene Wolfe's
The Computer Iterates the Greater Trumps, while Tim Pratt's
Soul Searching was the most recent winner.
Bruce Boston,
Robert Frazier, and
Andrew Joron are generally considered the masters of the field. Many more poems
here, as well as an
in-depth bibliography, and, of course, the
periodic table of science fiction haikus about the elements. Don't like science fiction?
Cowboy poetry is also a
thriving genre.
posted by blahblahblah
on Apr 19, 2006 -
17 comments
Mullet haiku, brought to you from the fine folks at the
Beer Church (The Largest Unorganized Religion in the World!)
It's Two! Two! Two links in one!
posted by yhbc
on Oct 14, 2003 -
2 comments
Although the haiku as meme has fallen on hard times here at MeFi, there are still some practioners lurking about in the wilderness, no doubt. If you still feel the urge to get freaky with the 5-7-5, and you think you've got what it takes, you might want to
try your hand at competitive haiku over at The Guardian, where quality haikuing will score you 20 lbs worth of Penguin Books. Damn, that's a lot of paperbacks!
posted by jonson
on Feb 24, 2003 -
30 comments
Tired of haikus? Then it might be time for
tanka.
Older than haikus, tanka is 31 syllables divided into lines of 5-7-5-7-7. There's been a
World Tanka Competition (mostly in Japanese, but the poems are translated into English) and a modern tanka poet,
Machi Tawara, has had her work turned into movies, television shows, and a musical revue. All that's needed now is to make it popular in the
English-speaking world...
posted by Katemonkey
on Dec 31, 2002 -
5 comments
Really Good Haiku (in English!) Yes, some complain about the abundance of humerous haiku on the internet and otherwise (wherever that is), but the fact remains: we all love it, perhaps because it is so easy to do, but probably because it enriches our lives, like a really well made stone wall, or Sam Cooke. I have found some haiku which were actually written
in english, about the sorts of things which we all like to laugh at. Enjoy them now!
[sfx: gong]
posted by Settle
on Mar 31, 2002 -
14 comments
Here at Metafilter - as in
many other places on the web -
we spend a lot of time talking about (and in) Haiku. For some reason the web-enabled generation
has come to think of Haiku as a hip,
funny, and
somewhat ironic way to express ... anything. But lest we forget that Haiku is, first and
foremost, a beautiful, traditonal art form. How many of you out there know much about the
history of Haiku? Did you know
that Japan is full of
monuments to Haiku?
Have you heard of or read any of the great traditional haiku poets, like
Masaoka Shiki, the
man for
whom the
International Haiku Award is named?
If you enjoy reading traditional-style Haiku, you can read
any number of
magazines devoted
exclusively to Haiku.
Many of us have not tried to write Haiku since Junior High - do you perhaps need
some instructions on
how to write Haiku?
If you really enjoy reading or writing Haiku, perhaps you might wish to join the
Haiku Society of America.
And, of course, if you wish to know more about Haiku, there are
any number of other resources out on
the web.
posted by anastasiav
on Mar 29, 2002 -
26 comments
Low Haiku _____________________
i kick you so hard
and steal all your ice cold beer
and then run away
posted by Settle
on Mar 23, 2002 -
15 comments
