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Category: Haiku

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Mu Haiku: Love looks not with eyes, but with the mind (and a couple of brain-implants)

A "data cable" made from stretched nerve cells could someday help connect computers to the human nervous system. The modified cells should form better connections with human tissue than the metal electrodes currently used for purposes such as remotely…

Mu Haiku: In Honour of Ancient Ocean-Detritus and its Dark, Oozing Legacy

All this talk of climate change; of the continued abuse of hydrocarbon bonds got me thinking. How are we expected to put our oil addicted world into perspective if we haven't got a perspective on the oily substance itself? It's all very well setting targets;…

Mu Haiku: Ode to a Trillion Unicellular Love-Machines

Next time you go for the proverbial dump consider the process involved in turning one plate of badly cooked meat and veg into a self perceiving, website reading, procrastinating you . It occurs to me that the chance of atoms, manufactured billions of years…

Mu Haiku: 'Cos Aliens got better things to do!

Aliens! Wide-eyed, short-statured, extraterrestrially-elongated aliens! In a universe as vast as this one (assuming you aren't one of those un-evolved creationist types) alien life of some form or other appears to be a statistical certainty. Yet, in an…

Haiku Ouroboros

This self reflexive , autopoietic haiku, is defined, then ends.

Mu Haiku: The Impact of Jesus' Testicles on the Future of Crucifixion Idolatry

Mu Haiku is back! If infamy is a viral infection then Jesus is surely the memetic common cold, clogging up the nostrils of civilisation since year nought. This guy was such a fly in the ointment of empire that simply killing him was not enough for the Roman…

The 29th Meeting of The Sceptics' Circle...

In prose nor dialectic, equality you'll find, but semantic perspiration, of testosteron-ic kinds. Today's sceptical enquiries, their beauty will astound, an inner neutral wonder, in Haiku can be found. But please whilst idly glancing, debating inner…

Mu Haiku: What the Mu kind of calendar do you call this?

As this year draws to a close and my first trip home in 18 months looms large ahead of me, the concept of time has been made prominent in my imagination. 2005? What does it mean? That 2005 years ago some bloke in some nonsense-scripture was allegedly born to…

Mu Haiku: The taste of flesh made modern

Food is fashion these days. A symbol of your 'lifestyle'; a token gesture of the kind of culture and upbringing you were formed from. We adaptable humans eat everything, even substances not considered compatible with our digestive processes are shoveled into…

Mu Haiku: The Intelligent Designer's Mistake Motivation

Yes, it's Mu Haiku time again at The Huge Entity ! Get your brains at the ready and your contemplative consciousnesses engaged. A real nonsense splitter today: "The US state of Kansas has ruled that science classes in public schools should include the…

Mu Haiku: Blasphemy

Mu is a Japanese and Chinese word regarding an absence of/in the negative. When one desires an answer, but your question makes false assumptions, the answer can only be Mu. A radical change of perspective is required before the Mu can be overcome. With this…

Robotic Haiku

So yesterday was Haiku day (depending on how you arrange your date yesterday was the 5th of the 7th month 2005 - 05/07/05) and I went and missed it, but it doesn't mean I can't pretend and bathe in the glory of the 5-7-5 structure we all know so well. Today's…