Code is indeed poetry: Van Gogh's Starry Night comes to Life
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> The Ixians had been at their best in the preservation and restoration. An observer could touch a dark spot on the lower left corner of the frame. Immediately, you were engulfed in the true genius, not only of the artist, but of the Ixian who had restored and preserved the work. His name was there on the frame: Martin Buro. When touched by the human finger, the dot became a sense projector, a benign spin-off of the technology that had produced the Ixian Probe. Buro had restored not only the painting but the painter -- Van Gogh's feeling -- accompaniment to each brush stroke. All had been captured in the brush strokes, recorded there by human movements.
> Odrade had stood there engrossed through the whole performance so many times she felt she could recreate the painting independently.
When Dennis Ritchie died, I saw someone post the following:
main() { printf("hello, afterworld\n"); }
There are more here: http://hastac.org/blogs/earksiinni/2011/10/13/curious-collec...
Does poetry itself not mean not being held back by any standard or pre-defined definition, and instead, seeks to challenge and/or convey an idea through sound, words, symbols, and images?
I asked another. He said he was building a library, where one day his grandchildren might discover Hemmingway.