HaikuLeaks Turns the Wikileaks Cables Into Poetry

[Joanne98]

The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks -- 1830 of them, so far -- have unsurprisingly been the source of a lot of controversy. What's more surprising is that they've also been the source of haiku poetry.

A site called HaikuLeaks used a computer algorithm to find 65 different haikus within the Wikileaks documents, and some of them are pretty great.

http://www.urlesque.com/2010/12/30/haikuleaks-wikileaks-cables-haiku/

Haïkuleaks Cable is poetry 65 haikus in 1830 cables

As is typical,
the Pope stayed above the fray
and did not comment.

00HARARE5461.txt

Whether such tactics
will have a chilling effect
remains to be seen.

09MEXICO193.txt

Rocha and Rands
did not attend the meeting
with Micheletti.

09BRASILIA1262.txt

'We have made request
after request,' he said, 'Why
doesn't the U.S. respond?

http://haikuleaks.tetalab.org/

[Lucinda]

1. I don't think that last one is a regular haiku form...but this is cool!

I was doing Inbox Haiku a year or so back...mashups from my email inbox titles. Fun stuff.

[EFerrari]

2. We could do Subj line Haiku

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