Our nominee for Free Software of the Week is <http://www.oblomovka.com/code/haiku/haiku>
It's a Python script that lets you find accidental haiku in any text file, as we did in the LDP Howtos way back in 2000. One Linux mailing list contained these:
Well, Junkbuster won't
let me view it. I'm sure it's
fascinating, though.
I would rather chew
my leg off than use Netscape
web servers again.
Solaris weenies
and retards: /opt/foo should be
/usr/lib/foo dammit.
Orinoco has
by far the best range, and a
very nice driver.
Bush's passion for
literary works was sparked
at an early age.
You'll believe us. You
have no choice. INTERACTIVE
COMPUTER SERVICE.
Nielsen has never
created a beautiful
design in his life.
A section in the
cathedral bar area
is reserved for us.
Even Richard Stallman is a (haiku) poet and doesn't know it. From the gnu.org site, this haiku about the economic harm of proprietary software:
"One person gains one
dollar by destroying two
dollars' worth of wealth."
Our nominee for Free Software of the Month is "mencal - a menstruation calendar - is a program looking like linux program cal. The difference is, that in mencal some days are colored red." <http://lide.punknet.cz/mccohy/mencal/english.html>
- Don Marti