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philgyford : When Science & Poetry Were Friends - The New York Review of Books - I liked this Freeman Dyson article from last year, recounting the scientific world of 1770-1830 and comparing it to today.
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Andy Baio : Daniel Benmergui's Today I Die - manipulate the words and characters to progress the story; from the creator of I Wish I Were the Moon
Rod Begbie : Today I Die - Another lovely piece of Flash game poetry from Daniel Benmergui. [via] #
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gleuschk : (Speaking in favor of) Redundancy, Inefficiency, Extravagance, and Waste. - a talk from the JMM in San Diego last January, which includes a math-poem that I like
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gleuschk : JoAnne Growney's mathematical poetry - doesn't include the one I read this morning in the MAA Focus
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33 month ago
Andy Baio : Poetry written in Inform 7 - the interactive fiction language is particularly well-suited to poetry and prose; more here
deusx : N. B. Horvath's Blog: Inform 7 Code Poem Challenge - "In Comments, post a poem that compiles to a working Inform 7 game." Better than Perl poetry?
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35 month ago
deusx : Bad Fortune Cookie: Spring: When a Young Man's Thoughts Turn to Flights of Poetry... - "H.A.M.S.T.E.R.S. A.R.E. E.V.I.L"
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38 month ago
philgyford : Index to Poetry by Title - Lots of Rilke's poems. Might be handy when I need some poetry for college classes. (via Ben Hammersley)
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39 month ago
plasticbag : Employment (II) (1633) by George Herbert - "Man is no starre, but a quick coal of mortall fire; Who blows it not, nor doth controll A faint desire, Let's his own ashes choke his soul"
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39 month ago
jimray : .Howl by Mark Cohen - "who chained themselves to highways for the endless ride from PARC to holy Redmond on Big Gulp cola until the Windows of possibility clicked shut" [sigh]
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45 month ago
merlinmann : YouTube - Forgetfulness - Billy Collins Animated Poetry - Animation of the lovely Collins poem. "Long ago you kissed the names of the nine Muses goodbye / and watched the quadratic equation pack its bag..."
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47 month ago
deusx : Margaret Atwood | "Variation On The Word Sleep" | poetry archive | plagiarist.com - "I would like to be that unnoticed & that necessary."
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48 month ago
gleuschk : Fibonacci Poems Multiply on the Web After Blog's Invitation - New York Times - but Judith Roitman dismisses them as "pretty uninteresting" (and I agree)
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48 month ago
plasticbag : These poems showing the absurdities of English spelling are pretty astonishingly fun to read out loud fast - But while I laugh, can I just point out how upsetting I find the Simplified Spelling Society. I'm afraid I believe that the systematic simplification of spelling strips language of its evident etymological roots and would diminish the language in resonanc
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48 month ago
gleuschk : cheesedip.com: lem, love & tensor algebra - annotated version of Lem's poem. Lem passed away this morning.
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49 month ago
kellan : SwitchTower renamed to Capistrano - Thank goodness someone in this industry has a sense of poetry, I'm really worried about people who are excited by "Reploy" #
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50 month ago
Andy Baio : Anti-piracy poem hidden in Mac OS X source code - the AP got a quote from Apple about it
Rod Begbie : OSx86 Project - Apple Seeks (Poetic) Justice - Apple aren't content just using any old dummy string for a DRM key in OSX -- They embedded an encrypted poem! [via] #
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50 month ago
deusx : 626. Ode to Psyche. John Keats. The Oxford Book of English Verse
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51 month ago
Andy Baio : Steve Jobs announces Intel-based iMacs and new MacBook Pro laptop - MacBook 4-5x faster than Powerbook G4; new iMacs 2-3x faster
kellan : Apple - MacBook Pro - the only thing keeping me to the "wait for 2nd generation" course of prudence? The lame name. MacBook? Good engineers, bad copywriters. #
Jon Hicks : Apple - MacBook Pro - Bah. Humbug.
43folders : Apple Updates MacBook Pros - "Let the tea-reading begin: Why would Apple announce these today rather than wait until next week’s WWDC keynote? Answer: They must have plently of other announcements for WWDC."
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54 month ago
gleuschk : Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams - Forgive me. I simply do not know what I am doing.
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55 month ago
gleuschk : MetaTalk | Community Weblog - Alas, poor MetaFilter! I knew it, Horatio: a website / of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy
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plasticbag : Wikipedia entry on Edward Lear, nonsense poet - My favourite Lear limerick: "There was an old person of Fife, Who was greatly disgusted with life; They sang him a ballad, And fed him on salad, Which cured that old person of Fife." Dude - I'm right there with you...
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