David Gerard, on the mailing list: "I'm somewhat annoyed the screenshots are real ..."

Five-second rule

The Wilhelm scream is a stock sound effect first used in 1951 for the movie Distant Drums. It has been featured in dozens of movies since.

WikiCharts tracks the most popular wikipedia articles. As usual, people are interested in sex and space travel. (The tool counts pageviews, not searches from the wikipedia mainpage, so google's probably playing a big role. And it's only 2 days running, so expect big fluctuations.)

No soap radio.

A head transplant is a hypothetical surgical operation involving the replacement of an organism's head with a replacement head. It should not be confused with another hypothetical surgical operation, the brain transplant.

Wikipedia Showdown! (Good filter.)

Fictional characters by occupation

User:Superman

List of computer and video games considered the worst ever.

(For example, Big Rigs -- "It is even possible, after several minutes of acceleration in this manner, for the speedometer to reach many thousands of times the speed of light. However, as soon as the reverse key is released, no matter what speed the truck is travelling at, it will halt instantly." And E.T. -- "Hundreds of thousands of excess cartridges were dumped in a landfill in Alamogordo, New Mexico.")

New planets! (Update: nevermind.)

The Neutrality of this Article is Disputed: Inside Wikimania 2006

From Reason magazine. It's pretty good.

The Silver Arrow is a ghost train that (according to an urban legend) haunts the Stockholm Metro.

The Ryugyong is a towering, empty concrete shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea.

Frank Chu (March 24, 1960 — ) is one of San Francisco's best-known eccentrics.

See also: The Emperor of the United States and, less interstingly, Daniel Pratt (eccentric)

People in this category are either current or past buskers.

Here are some buskers in Tokyo.

Picadilly, then and now.

I'm on Wikibreak.

Whoa: Apple's going to put out a wiki engine. (If I was writing wikiwyg fanfiction, this is what it would be about.) Luckily for wikia, socialtext, and pretty much everybody else, it looks like it'll only run on apple servers, and who the hell has an apple server?

NYTimes article on Wikimania, though not by the reporter I ran into.