Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart
Attention, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this?
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Write a web standards haiku (like that one), and post it on Twitter with the hashtag #bbd4 between now and November 30th—which happens to be the fourth international Blue Beanie Day in support of Web Standards.
Winning haikus will receive free books from Peachpit/New Riders (“Voices That Matter”) and A Book Apart.
Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition and I will determine the winners.
Enter as many haikus as you like. Sorry, only one winning entry per person. Now get out there and haiku your heart out!
See you on Blue Beanie Day.
P.S. An ePub version of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition is coming soon to a virtual bookstore near you. Watch this space.
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17 Responses to “Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart”
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Awesome. Gotta work on this. Reminds me, too, I should start getting ready to update my avatar and my blog for the 30th. Standards for life! Ha.
how do you count syllables on your haiku?? :)
it should be 5/7/5, yours it seems much like 5/8/7
before me
with a lantern in hand
a snowman
George Badarau
Romania
to design with taste
is to aim at high standards
for the world wide web
A blue beanie hat
Auter, Speaker, standardista
A cat in a hat
I don’t use Twitter and I barely log in my Facebook account, and no, I don’t have a blog either.
Have you guys ever thought of Web Designers that are not into social media… yet support 110% web standards?
How are we supposed to have a chance to win, if any?
Fail.
PS. I support web standards 110%… of course.
Ricardo:
Well, you might post a haiku here, like Simon Cox did.
Ricardo — you just described the display:none of Web ID. Take a more relative position and stop blocking if you want to be classy. A sense of whimsy is !important.
Tweeted.
Blue beanies, berets,
And bowlers bestowed bravely.
Beautiful browsers.
#bbd4
Shared on Twitter (@mikemetcalf)
Blue beanies, berets,
And bowlers bestowed bravely.
Beautiful browsers.
The standards are high
don’t bake bread and cry
just follow the sky
Ok, here goes nothing:
“Site looks broken”
Standards out the window…
Upgrade without the cost of a single token.
End obsolescence
One size does not fit all web
Smile! Build with standards
one more…
HTML5
PHP, CSS3
Embrace acronyms
Forgot the hashtag
Not a twitter kind of guy
Back to drawing board
Which haikus won!? I entered like 30 of my best (I’m awesome at haikus) so I want to see what was better than mine :)
Can I lay claim to the original idea for web standards haiku contests? I remember giving away your book many years ago in a similar contest. Here were the winners: http://www.consolationchamps.com/2001/06/25/zeldman-haiku-contest-winner/