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Fibs - Fibonacci-based Poetry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the nerdy-haiku dept.

Gregory K. writes "April is National Poetry Month (and, it turns out, Math Awareness Month), and on my blog, I decided to get people writing poetry based on the Fibonacci sequence. The poems are six lines, 20 syllables long with the syllable pattern 1/1/2/3/5/8, though they can go longer, obviously. I've been calling 'em Fibs, and people have been writing them on pop culture, politics, math, and more."

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  1. Wasting time by gameforge · · Score: 0, Troll

    I thought Slashdot Readers had More important things To write about; but I was wrong.

  2. Re:Tool - Lateralus by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Troll

    But on the other hand, I actually enjoy listening to Tool.

    Maybe you do, but people with a good education in music would be painfully aware that at least five tones are missing from any given song and would be baffled why the band left the music in such a crippled state when it could have been so much more.

  3. Re:Tool - Lateralus by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Troll

    And I'm not sure why you're so hung up on counting the number of tones used... hardly a measure of a piece of musics complexity or worth.

    The number of tones has a lot to do with the complexity of a work, since the most complex work will necessarily be that which doesn't use any tone until it has used the other eleven. And the complexity of a musical work, in turn, has a lot to do with its worth. As Xenakis wrote in Musiques formelles:

    Le son beau ou laid n'a pais de sens, ni la musiqe qui en découle; la quantité d'intelligence portée par les sonorités doit être le vrai critère de validité de telle ou telle musique.

    Tool just doesn't cut it. It's okay to listen to this when you want something mindless or bubble-gum, but to claim that Tool is not "simple music", as the OP does, is just flat-out lying.