Alternative poetry - the Wordle way

Another way of looking at the final assignment for A215:



- not really enough repetition to give big variations in size - more a demonstration of a wide vocabulary but I think the themes out themselves quite nicely in blue.

'Witnesses say french fries helped calm bin Laden driver'

Surely one of the more eccentric headlines of the year - from Yahoo news today - reporting on the goings on at Guantamamo Bay. The story continues by confirming that the fries came from Macdonalds and the driver in question did not appreciate them when they were cold. Can we conclude from this that the US military had their own franchise on the base?? A headline that, frankly, begs more questions than it answers.

Violators will be slapped...

Found this again whilst trying to sort out pictures littered over hard drive, Flickr, pen drive, CDs etc. etc. - still puzzling over it two years after encountering it at a Canadian University... another of those "is it ME?" occassions. Ho hum.

My kind of bloke...

...has this kind of brain and this kind of timing, http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/66 (Sir Ken Robinson posing the question 'Do schools kill creativity?' ). Thanks to Pete for having tracked it down.

Poetry

Spring cleaning took a little longer than planned because there was the small matter of the (fanfare of trumpets) Examinable Component! The joy of A215 has been poetry (yes, really) and the active encouragement to play about with words. For the EC this included playing about with jargon - Web 2.0 and the electronic gadgetry of daily life:

Status update – route recalculation

I’m not inter-net sex.
A Real-player
I’d rather have it untaxed
but not gross either.

You can come on over to my space
and Chatter
or, better, bebo-ld
‘coz twittering won’t un-Furl you
any-Ning del.icio.us.
You’ll need to Digg
until perchance there’s a Flickr and
Yahoo! you’ll have fOUndIt.

My Skype?
e-Bay it’s hard to say
presently I’m wireless.
O’Reilly? I hear you cry.
Indeed, no more on Craigslist
but what the Flock
he was just Flash, a Shockwave and
finally I AdSense enough to see
he was just a wiki-d mash-up
all mouth and trousers, very little UGC.

So for now I’m goin’ to surf on
browse around a little more
tag along a few folks and RSS.
Later, if the bandwidth’s there,
if I’ve really reddit Writely
might Joost see if I can’t
StumbleUpon a syndication
and Google myself a Second Life.


Hope the examiners have a sense of humour.

Displacement activity

Trying to write the last bit of poetry for the end of course assessment but LM sent me this!

Having a bit of a tidy up

...and a clean and sweep round - will be bringing the furniture back in soon too.

Hellooooooo, anyone home?

Rather an echo in here and jeez, there is SO much dust I can barely see through the windows! Looks like no-one was home for years! Got to get my Marigolds out and see what I can do about this mess. One saving grace - no longer any sign of Basil, even he must have had enough and shuffled off. Now, to find the Cilitbang or whatever that stuff is called...