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WACK-a-Pedia!: Wikreative Anachropedia

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Saturday, February 11, 2006. I stand before you as a mountaineer gazing up at a rock face. On the Matterhorn. Or Everest - one of those real tough mountains. (The Matterhorn is tough, right? I'm going to attempt to do justice to Wikipedia's entry on the Society for Creative Anachronism. How does a person decide what to do here? The whole basis of comedy is setup and punchline. With the SCA, it's all punchline. Take this paragraph from the 6,389-word entry:. I guess the best (i...

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Six Degrees of Mac

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Friday, February 10, 2006. Six Degrees of Mac. Six Degrees of Procrastination. McIntosh apple : cultivar : portmanteau : Humpty Dumpty. Who knew Humpty Dumpty was so procrastinatory? Turns out the term "Humpty Dumptyism" means "insist[ing] on a meaning of a word that is not generally accepted by others." I've never heard of this before - could it be a case of Humpty Dumptyism itself? Here's why it's called Humpty Dumptyism (From Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass. Try t...

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WACK-a-Pedia!: WIkipedia to the rescue -- Part 2

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Friday, January 20, 2006. WIkipedia to the rescue - Part 2. Wikipedia's heroics just won't stop. Even while it was out-reporting. ABC this week, one of its contributors was outing. A plagiarist reporter. Tim Ryan had been an entertainment columnist for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin for 21 years. Talk about job security! And he had to go and blow it! For bringing this situation to light," Slashdot notes. Posted by Spiky : 10:26 PM. Comments: Post a Comment. Links to this post:.

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Six Degrees of Procrastination: Childfree

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Saturday, February 04, 2006. Six Degrees of Procrastination: Childfree. Eh, well, not exactly. I meant to play Six Degrees of Procrastination. With Wikipedia's entry on the Childfree movement. But the movement itself is just so hilarious that I never got away from the page. Instead, here are the six best terms in Wikipedia's list of movement slang. (I think you'll see why I was in difficulty.). A person who has not yet decided whether or not to have children. Wikipedia and Wha...

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Jargo-a-go-go

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Tuesday, January 10, 2006. What if a bunch of cheerleaders and homecoming queens had been in charge of propagating the Internet? We'd have keyboard shortcuts to dot i's with hearts and protocols to block sites that were too "mean." ICANN would be funded through bake sales and car washes. But they didn't create the Internet, geeks did, and so we have jargon. Lots and lots of jargon. ROTFL, meme, Netizen, Wiki. IM, IP, ICANN. A web site that a bunch of people all contribute to.

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WACK-a-Pedia!: MonopoLIE?!?

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Thursday, February 16, 2006. It's the game everyone remembers fondly and no one wants to play. With the old-timey tokens and penalty cards that seem to hail from the days of flicker reels and Tammany Hall (What is a "Community Chest," anyway? Monopoly retains the sepia aura of a Beloved Icon despite the fact that nobody, but nobody, cherishes fond memories of actually playing. The last time I played, the experience was more like this one (cited by Ben of the blog Ben and Alice.

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Hipster Mannerheim?

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Thursday, February 02, 2006. In a weird convergence of obsessions (in this case, Finnish militaria. I learned this week that Carl Mannerheim, Winter War general and creator of the Mannerheim Line, may have used something like a Hipster PDA:. Image courtesy of this nice lady. Mannerheim certainly was well-organized, that's for sure. Check out his desk! In an image from his eminently procrastinatory Wikipedia entry. Posted by Spiky : 1:16 PM. Comments: Post a Comment.

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Wikipolitics

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Sunday, January 29, 2006. Thanks, U.S. Rep. Martin Meehan! By trying to lie in your Wikipedia entry, your staffers have prompted Wikipedia to politician-proof itself. The AP reports that "members of [the Lowell, Mass. congressman's] staff deleted unflattering information about a broken campaign promise." For the full story, click here. At least one political blog says this story proves Wikipedia is inherently flawed. What a stupid criticism! The story just broke Saturday, and ...

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Ashlee Simpson = Heuristic anxiety

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Friday, December 16, 2005. Ashlee Simpson = Heuristic anxiety. A singing star or an embryonic has-been? Most of us already know the answer to this question, but it's provoked knuckle-knawing deliberations behind the scenes at Wikipedia. On the case: A squad of honest-to-God peer reviewers. Dunno where these folks come from, or why they’re able to take so much time away from sorting socks and cutting Family Circus. Artistic influence, or an Ashlee for the ages. The lead has two...

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WACK-a-Pedia!: Six Degrees of Apocalypse

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Because Wikipedia is wacky. Thursday, January 12, 2006. Six Degrees of Apocalypse. Today for Six Degrees of Procrastination. I decided to start with the topic England. Since it was mentioned on Wikipedia's main page. It took a while to avoid Tolkienian cul-de-sacs, but here's what I got - nothing less than the Apocalypse! Six Degrees of Procrastination: Apocalypse. Statute of Rhuddlan: Llywelyn the Last : Brut y Tywysogion : Geoffrey of Monmouth : Apocalypse. Posted by Spiky : 1:49 PM. Links to this post:.