Comments on: Haikuleaks: "Cable is Poetry" http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-982317 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-982317 The S would be a separate syllable, actually - it got that one right. The S would be a separate syllable, actually – it got that one right.

]]> By: Lt. Mamiya http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980789 Lt. Mamiya Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980789 As a couple of astute posters have already pointed out, this concept was pronounced definitively lame nearly a decade ago - but thanks for turning back the clock... http://violinbackpacker.tripod.com/banhaiku.html As a couple of astute posters have already pointed out, this concept was pronounced definitively lame nearly a decade ago – but thanks for turning back the clock…

http://violinbackpacker.tripod.com/banhaiku.html

]]> By: stAllio! http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980542 stAllio! Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980542 too perfect? try HAIKU FAIL! "rocha and rands" = 4 syllables "doesn't the US respond" = 7 syllables too perfect? try HAIKU FAIL!

“rocha and rands” = 4 syllables
“doesn’t the US respond” = 7 syllables

]]> By: Rob http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980564 Rob Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980564 I like this. I would like to see these little haikus lovingly embroidered on pillows. Embossed on commemorative plates. Quoted out of context like bible verses. I like this. I would like to see these little haikus lovingly embroidered on pillows. Embossed on commemorative plates. Quoted out of context like bible verses.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980568 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980568 Seems to be automated via this Python module: https://github.com/jdf/haikufinder Seems to be automated via this Python module: https://github.com/jdf/haikufinder

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980824 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980824 and thanks for insulting our hosts! and thanks for insulting our hosts!

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980840 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980840 Yeah, this is pretty clearly an automated process, looking for sentences with the right syllable count, and adding line breaks in the right places. I'd be impressed if someone had actually written proper haiku inspired by the leaked cables, but this is neither creative, nor clever. Yeah, this is pretty clearly an automated process, looking for sentences with the right syllable count, and adding line breaks in the right places.

I’d be impressed if someone had actually written proper haiku inspired by the leaked cables, but this is neither creative, nor clever.

]]> By: genericrich http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980587 genericrich Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980587 Sigh. Haiku's are not just meter or # of syllables. It is an imagistic form, where use of images conveys emotion. EPIC HAIKU FAIL Sigh. Haiku’s are not just meter or # of syllables. It is an imagistic form, where use of images conveys emotion. EPIC HAIKU FAIL

]]> By: grikdog http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980590 grikdog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980590 the word you're looking for is senryu, not haiku -- fail, fail, fail, fail, fail the word you’re looking
for is senryu, not haiku –
fail, fail, fail, fail, fail

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980859 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980859 They read perfectly when in the voice of Shatner. Is Kirk haiku-prone? They read perfectly
when in the voice of Shatner.
Is Kirk haiku-prone?

]]> By: Lobster http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-981125 Lobster Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-981125 Ah, haiku. It's like Twitter, but artsy! :D Ah, haiku. It’s like Twitter, but artsy! :D

]]> By: travtastic http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-981666 travtastic Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-981666 I enjoy haiku so freaking underground it doesn't exist yet. I enjoy haiku
so freaking underground it
doesn’t exist yet.

]]> By: davethegame http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980646 davethegame Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980646 Haiku purists lack ability to laugh at funny site concept Haiku purists lack
ability to laugh at
funny site concept

]]> By: mdh http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980661 mdh Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980661 "Either way, genius. " “Either way, genius. “

]]> By: The Life Of Bryan http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980696 The Life Of Bryan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980696 This is beautiful Technology leveraged to show truth in lies This is beautiful
Technology leveraged
to show truth in lies

]]> By: foo http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980698 foo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980698 This is pretty similar to the haiku abuse at hiddenhaiku.com, but with politics. This is pretty similar to the haiku abuse at hiddenhaiku.com, but with politics.

]]> By: humanresource http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980954 humanresource Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980954 Rant about haiku Becoming hipster cliche - Why so serious? Rant about haiku
Becoming hipster cliche -
Why so serious?

]]> By: 82times http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-981214 82times Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-981214 Here's another site that does something similar, but makes new ones on the fly: http://cableku.info/ My personal favorite (from 09MADRID392)… Counsel and John Yoo based on misinformation permitted torture Here’s another site that does something similar, but makes new ones on the fly:
http://cableku.info/

My personal favorite (from 09MADRID392)…

Counsel and John Yoo
based on misinformation
permitted torture

]]> By: grikdog http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-981221 grikdog Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-981221 Haiku purists know our precious art is 2 l33t 4 Am3Fvcons. Haiku purists know
our precious art is 2 l33t
4 Am3Fvcons.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980715 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980715 Try the various permutations at Is It Haiku? http://daghlian.com/haiku Try the various permutations at Is It Haiku? http://daghlian.com/haiku

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980716 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980716 To automate this search, you'd have to have a tagged corpus of words (including proper names) with their syllables counted. And you'd have to be able to recognize sentence boundaries. Then you'd have to search for word combinations that fit into 5 - 7 - 5 syllable patterns, and which end on a sentence boundary. To automate this search, you’d have to have a tagged corpus of words (including proper names) with their syllables counted. And you’d have to be able to recognize sentence boundaries.

Then you’d have to search for word combinations that fit into 5 – 7 – 5 syllable patterns, and which end on a sentence boundary.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980977 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980977 I like that "hipster cliche" haiku post above. Why did my mind register the last line of the second one in column two as "in mind, not just evil"? I like that “hipster cliche” haiku post above.

Why did my mind register the last line of the second one in column two as “in mind, not just evil”?

]]> By: humanresource http://boingboing.net/2010/12/29/haikuleaks-cable-is.html#comment-980990 humanresource Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-980990 Cheers Anon; yeah, evil does work better. Enemies of joke haiku should open their minds to the glory of a genre now liberated from zen padantry, or else miss out on the noble offerings of Western Masters such as Beavis and Butthead: Burning cherry tree Every blossom is aflame Shit, here come the cops Cheers Anon; yeah, evil does work better.
Enemies of joke haiku should open their minds to the glory of a genre now liberated from zen padantry, or else miss out on the noble offerings of Western Masters such as Beavis and Butthead:

Burning cherry tree
Every blossom is aflame
Shit, here come the cops

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