Tag: HaikuLeaks

HaikuLeaks: Wikileaks in Japanese poem form

Some people out there aren’t big fans of Haikus. Those 5/7/5 Japanese poems. I am not some people. I even resigned my job with the power of Haiku. So I’m impressed with this website that searches the wikileaks site for naturally occurring haikus. Like these:

Instead, he gulped three
cans of Coca-Cola while
inhaling his food.

He added that there
should be ‘no blank checks, no checks
at all,’ for Hamas.

The vessels are met
either on shore or a short
distance off the coast.

It uses a snippet of code that you can run over any text you want. Which you can get here.