The ides of April ain't what you think

Death and taxes are the only sure things, they say. The Ides of March – the 15th – is well-known as the day some folks got all stabby with Julius Caesar in 44 BC,  an event (at least in Shakespeare’s telling) predicted by a seer who was ignored by...

Be true to your haiku

Via Jen 8 Lee for national poetry month, NY Times Haiku. I learned via professor N’s instant message that the estimable Jennifer 8 Lee tweeted a piece about the New York Times’ creation of a Haiku bot.  I like that the Nieman Lab article felt compelled to...