Link tags: poetry

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A poem about Silicon Valley, assembled from Quora questions about Silicon Valley

What makes a startup ecosystem thrive?
What do people plan to do once they’re over 35?
Is an income of $160K enough to survive?
What kind of car does Mark Zuckerberg drive?

Elemental haiku

An ode for every element in the periodic table, in the form of a haiku.

Pop Sonnets

Modern pop songs retold as Shakespearian sonnets.

Google Poetics

The accidental beauty in Google’s autosuggest algorithm.

Pentametron: With algorithms subtle and discrete / I seek iambic writings to retweet.

Algorithmically-generated combinations of tweets in iambic pentameter. Some of the results are really quite lovely. I’m imagining a poetry reading of this stuff in a hip café …it would be fun.

Godzilla Haiku

Loving Godzilla 17 syllables at a time.

CSS3 And Me « Trent Walton

It's not very often, I must confess, that I see a poem about CSS. You know a technology is in its prime when people start talking about it in rhyme.

Code Poetry: Blake’s Jerusalem | actionscripter.co.uk

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Poetry reading - WordRidden

Jessica's English translation of a 19th Century German poem in the public domain – possibly the only English translation of this poem in existence.

Carl Sandburg: The People Yes (excerpt)

This is the poem read by Bruce Sterling during his closing remarks at South by Southwest 2006. "This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers."