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Monday, January 8, 2007
1:14AM

Code Is (Political) Poetry

By AuthorTim Seah |
This, from the great code poet Alaa Seif, the Pink Dragon of the Bamboo Grove, is more elegant than Haiku:

< /mubarak>

If the new language of Egyptian activism is code, it looks like it will be as direct and as sparse.
DateJan 8, 2007 at 1:14 Comment3 Comments

Reader Comments (3)

in true open source fashion this is a hack on previously released code used to protest bush follows is the patch

--- solution.xml
+++ solution_eg.xml
@@ -1 +1 @@
-
+

Jan 8, 2007 at 2:40 AM | Unregistered CommenterAlaa

oops bad escaping


--- solution.xml 2007-01-08 02:38:46.000000000 +0200
+++ solution_eg.xml 2007-01-08 02:39:01.000000000 +0200
@@ -1 +1 @@
-</bush>
+</mubarak>

Jan 8, 2007 at 2:42 AM | Unregistered Commenteralaa

????
da engleze ya morsy
looks like funny programing codes?

Jan 8, 2007 at 7:00 AM | Unregistered CommenterDananeer

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