Tag: HAIKU

Whitecaps on the bay: A broken signboard banging In the April wind. – Richard Wright, courtesy of Wikipedia Ah, the timeless art of haiku. This beautiful form of Japanese poetry has now been made into a Flash game, Haiku Hero. And if that sounds like a bad idea, there's a reason for it. I just don't think that composing "timed haiku" really conforms to the spirit of the art, and ...

Back in the early 1990s, BeOS appeared on the operating system scene promising a simple, uncluttered desktop designed to tackle digital media chores. Though Be is no longer "alive," its memory lives on thanks to a devoted community of supporters - like those behind Haiku. At long last, the Haiku OS project is getting close to an initial alpha release. Even better, they're making nightly builds ...

We're no strangers to potentially inappropriate versions of Internet memes, but why not apply that same inappropriateness to haiku? Indecent Haiku offers plenty of 3-line gems covering topics like sex, alcohol, love, and nature. Like any good haiku site, they allow you to submit your own. Their submissions page even offers a reminder of haiku structure (5-7-5) and their take on good content. If ...

The last time we covered BeOS was two years ago, with this optimistic post. Since then however, YellowTab has gone down in flames and scandal, and the last hope for commercial BeOS is dead. Meanwhile, in the land of Open Source, something big is happening. After six years of development, the Haiku team is nearing completion of a completely free and open implementation of BeOS. We downloaded a ...