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Posts matching tags 'haiku'

2002/3/15

Nifty: A program which locates found haiku in text files. Well, found senryu, to be precise. (It needs Python 2.2, as it uses generators.) (via bOING bOING)

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2000/6/14

An interesting programming contest, which involves writing a program which automatically summarises news items in haiku form. Given the complexity of the task, any satisfactory solutions are going to have to be quite interesting... (via Slashdot)

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2007/9/6

When Factory Records boss Tony Wilson was buried recently, his coffin was numbered FAC 501 , the last Factory catalogue number.

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2006/9/7

And here is what looks like Banksy's making-of video for his Paris Hilton project.

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2003/9/7

The Free Pauline Hanson campaign rolls on with vigils outside her prison , and her son releasing a song proclaiming her innocence. It makes one wonder what's next: a commemorative plate edition perhaps?