"Wikihistory," by Desmond Warzel.

http://www.abyssandapex.com/200710-wikihistory.html

Edit: link is dead, try this one: http://www.tor.com/stories/2011/08/wikihistory

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Our legacy now is but another monument of marble and granite on the Mall in Washington, the same cold stone plinths and platitudes as those rewarded to veterans of the Revolution and the Civil War. How I wish that my generation's gift to the future might have been one of peace instead of these countless, cruel wars and battles and bombings that ( Read more... )

I listened to some Ferenc Liszt and realized I had liked him for many years, and added him to my interests. Then found that I was the only one with him listed in that form of his name. How annoying. I don't know why I still refuse to use "Franz." Old habits ( Read more... )

The first total war: Napoleon's Europe and the birth of warfare as we know it, by David A. Bell ( Read more... )