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mdn — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:03:23 -0800

words that seem boring
will become much more worthwhile
when viewed through this lens.
[via mefi projects]

Chrome megaphone barks / Autumn presents First Alpha / The Spring of Haiku

filthy light thief — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:05:36 -0800

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. Starting on the AT&T Hobbit processor, the early BeBoxen then changed to two PowerPC processors running at 66 or 133 MHz. Be, Inc. made the decision to port BeOS to Intel chipsets in a hope to broaden their market with the R3 release in March 1998, finally giving away the OS for personal use (which was later modified by users after there was no official support), shifting gears and retooling the OS for internet appliances (BeIA). None of this helped enough, and Palm's final purchase price of $11 million was a fraction of the $200 million Be hoped to get from Apple in the years before (Apple was only willing to pay $125 million). The BeOS interface is well recognized, and many people have copied the design into themes and skins for modifiable programs. The release of this alpha was also covered on Slashdot, where a commenter noted it's usable, but lacking in wifi support. A follow-up noted [t]he wireless stack is a work in progress (see also: Haikuware Blog), based on the FreeBSD 8.0 WLAN stack. There is a bounty for this goal. Haiku was chosen as the project name because of the intended simplicity of the project, and as a tribute to the error messages from NetPositive (which also lead to the FPP title). Before anyone tells me it's not Autumn yet, I'm claiming this falls under the meteorological Autumn for the northern hemisphere.

Short Versions

Miko — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:09:36 -0800

Dissertation Haiku

haiku falls in place

kliuless — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:20:08 -0800

BeOS is back! Immortalised by Neal Stephenson as the Batmobile of operating systems, it's been reincarnated as Haiku :P

(Somewhat) Daily Meditations

Joey Michaels — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 10:57:57 -0800

Indecent Haiku is a selection of urban-themed musings in 5-7-5 haiku format. Previously.

Location-specific haiku

harhailla.harhaluuossa — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:50:10 -0800

Location-specific haiku

Haiku + Movie = Haikuvie

amyms — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:28:43 -0800

Lumbergh and the Bobs
bring layoffs and misery
white collars, dark times

- An excerpt from the "Office Space" Haikuvie. What's a Haikuvie? A Haikuvie takes a movie and sums it up in 7 haiku. It is an attempt to capture the essence of the film and mix in bits of commentary and humor along the way. Warning: Haikuvies contain spoilers (if you haven't seen the movies).

Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival

blue shadows — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 18:52:33 -0800

This year's winners of the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival's annual haiku contest were recently announced.

Don't make him angry.

GrammarMoses — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 12:00:02 -0800

Bill Bixby haiku from 1994. [via]

Random Haiku

pedantic — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:41:49 -0800

Intimate in bed
Adoptive iterative
Develop in bed!

[refresh]

Hello my marbles
You have no chance to marble
Make your undoing!

5-7-5-140

tepidmonkey — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:43:44 -0800

Twitterku features haiku made out of public updates on Twitter. Sometimes they’re existential. Sometimes they’re vaguely dirty. Actually they’re mostly just existential and vaguely dirty.

Haikus

misha — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:20:19 -0800

From the Sarcasm Society

a place to watch

four panels — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:36:12 -0800

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.

5-7-5

John of Michigan — Thu, 12 Oct 2006 13:08:06 -0800

Haiku Circus. Red autumn leaves blow./The monkey looks for laughs and/Finds Haiku Circus.

New Yorker in Haiku

mabelstreet — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 13:02:59 -0800

New Yorker in Haiku. Every week.

You got poetry in my science fiction!

blahblahblah — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 18:38:57 -0800

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.

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)

Red Wine Haiku

Vidiot — Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:52:57 -0800

Do you like claret? Wine reviewer writes haiku. (More fun than Parker.)

55378008

Speck — Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:52:23 -0800

Calculator Haiku

Haiku day, for those outside of the US.

soplerfo — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 07:47:48 -0800

meta filter : haiku
h a p p y h a i k u d a y , a s s h a t s
t h i s h a i k u v i b r a t e s

Happy World Centennial Haiku Day!

fenriq — Sat, 07 May 2005 10:18:31 -0800

Today is World Centennial Haiku Day 05/07/05
Rejoice good citizens, today is Haiku Day.
We're all well familiar with rape haiku (and grape haiku from the Mefi thread) but did you know about Scifaiku (science fiction haiku)?
Unless you don't follow the Gregorian Calendar, such as those following the Hebrew, Persian, Islamic , Chinese, or Hindu calendars. To them its just another day, I guess.

Grape Haiku

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 06 Nov 2004 19:45:57 -0800

Grape Haiku

the haiku postcard foundation owns you

keef — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 08:29:01 -0800

The Haiku Postcard Foundation exhibits a collection of anonymous hand-created postcards sent in from people around the world. It boasts a long and varied history and many interesting submissions.

Haiku. About mullets. Oh, and there's beer, too.

yhbc — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:34:09 -0800

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!

Seventeen Syllables of TERROR!

arto — Thu, 24 Jul 2003 03:11:44 -0800

Big Monsters, Little Poems. "Last night I dreamed I / Destroyed New York City in / My Maidenform Bra"
"Twin six-inch singers / Banshees, worse than the monsters / Mercy, make them stop!"
...and dozens more haiku monster movie reviews, promoting a forthcoming indie PC game.