Archive for the ‘wikipedia’ Category

4.3 people were born and 1.8 people died. You blinked.

Posted at 9:21pm on Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 by

Ten word wiki. Everything defined in ten words. e.g. second, minute, hour, day.

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More wikipedia games

Posted at 9:34am on Tuesday, June 12th, 2007 by

Wikigroaning (for example – List of Animals vs. List of Pokemon)

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Catfishing

Posted at 8:41pm on Wednesday, June 6th, 2007 by

Since Adrian linked to these I’ve been finding it hard to get on with the job in hand…  Catfishing and Wikington Crescent.  Gah!

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On Wikipedia and charity

Posted at 5:59pm on Saturday, February 10th, 2007 by

Wikipedia: On the brink? Or crying wolf?

350 servers and the 12th most popular site on the web. Hard, yes, but on the brink? Unlikely, let’s be honest.

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Wikipedia

Posted at 1:01pm on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 by

Not that I always just blatantly rip posts from MetaFilter, but here’s another one… Unusual oddness at Wikipedia, including the awesome List of songs in English labeled the worst ever and List of songs whose title constitutes the entire lyrics.

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Is this really true?

Posted at 6:21pm on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 by

Something about this paragraph from The Colourfield page on Wikipedia just doesn’t ring true:

Most recently, on the 21st of July 2003, Terry released his latest album “The Hour Of Two Lights” which is a collaboration with Mushtaq (Fun-Da-Mental), a 12-year-old Lebanese girl singer, a blind Algerian rapper, a Syrian flautist, Hebrew vocalists, a group of Polish Gypsies and Damon Albarn.

edit: Apparently I should be more trusting :)

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