Re: From someplace else
Kjetil Torgrim Homme <kje...@haey.ifi.uio.no> wrote: > [Faux_Pseudo]: >> >> I see posts like this in the pl group frequently but it seems I >> and a few Slackware users I know are the only English speakers >> doing this kind of work. > > ah, but it's very much alive among Norwegian and Swedish hackers -- of > course I use the word "hacker" in its original meaning -- and I'm sure > real hackers everywhere keep this tradition alive. in some newsgroups > or forums (in a Portacom clone I frequent) the art of making geometric > shapes is the most important motivation for posting messages. content > to style ratio is often ~zero, nobody cares if the text is nonsensical > if the rules for a tasteful "brick" are followed. e.g. hyphenation is > considered cheating, and obviously, so is adjusting the spaces between > sentences. a hidden message earns bonus points, can you see one here? Elegant. For a beautiful example (indeed, a meta-example) of this, see "Contracrostipunctus" by Douglas Hofstadter: http://www.math.yorku.ca/Who/Faculty/Steprans/Courses/3500/GodelsTheorem/geb75-81.shtml ObAscii: inscription on Goblet G, from the dialogue /\ ---|/-------|---------.-------------------|---|| ---/---|_--_|---------|-------,-.---|,,--_|---h| -,'|_--|/-(_)-------,-|-------|-'---|,|-(_)---j| ( '| |--------------`-'-------|-------'-------m| -`-|'-------------------------'---------------|| @/ B - A - C - H -- Harry Mason ("hjm200.ecs@soton@ac@uk" =~ tr/@./.@/)
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