Last night my subconscious made contact with an alternative timeline where Robert Heinlein was a scriptwriter for I Love Lucy, and pulled an episode through. Sadly, I retained pretty much nothing of it on waking.

Today, Jeffrey Rowland suggests that you can tell everything there is to know about someone by looking at their last five Wikipedia ( Read more... )

Wikipedia’s been in the news a bit recently. John Seigenthaler, former administrative assistant to Robert Kennedy, discovered recently that a prankster had posted a biography of him to Wikipedia, claiming that he‘d been thought to have been involved in the assassinations of the two Kennedy brothers. Painful, but there are assholes all over, and at ( Read more... )

Wikipedia’s entry on Ahmed Chalabi tells you his Erdös number.

Bruce Sterling, in Viridian Note #450: Rude Calamity:
How the ironies multiply. We've got historically high oil prices at the moment that America's most storm-vulnerable large city takes a direct hit from a Category 5. Katrina's core is the equivalent of a thirty-mile wide F2 tornado. It's heading with devilish precision for a large, fragile, ( Read more... )

In what other encyclopedia could one find the sentence: “it is unlikely that there is another practitioner of anal stretching with the same mole on the upper-left edge of his anus”?

Or a list of films ordered by use of the word “fuck”? (#1: The Devil’s Rejects, 560 uses in 100 minutes)

Or a list of minced oaths?

“Pope Loses Battle With Peace-Symbol Dove”
“Gowan, geddadaheah, ya symbols of peace ya!”
(AP photos, so check ’em out before they go away.)

“I Ate iPod Shuffle”
A poem. Contains much more humor than you’d think was inherent in the premise.

“Williamsburg Doesn’t Need a Space Elevator”
Sez you!

Goldfish RacetrackYes, it’s a racetrack for ( Read more... )

Ah, Wikipedia! Sure, the stuffy old guard may doubt your accuracy (though the Encyclopædia Britannica might not be any better), but how many encyclopedias have not just an entry on the umlaut, but a separate entry on the use of the umlaut in heavy metal rock band names? (“At one Mötley Crüe performance in Germany, the entire audience started ( Read more... )