Some outside attention for Wikiproject: Countering Systemic Bias

List of North American cities by year of foundation

Physics has experimental and theoretical wings. "Social software is the experimental wing of political philsophy, a discipline that doesn't realize it has an experimental wing."

The Motherfuckers were never part of the Situationist International.

Nick Carr says Wikipedia is dead because these articles can only be edited by logged-in users. (Man, if I could troll like Carr this blog would be so popular...)

Corante has a good response.

The Nain Rouge (French for "red dwarf" or "red gnome") is a mythical creature that haunts Detroit.

A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow) is a rainbow that occurs at night.

One aspect that is usually unknown by visitors to Brasília is that it has attracted many members of offbeat religious sects and esoteric cults — sects that embrace reincarnation and universal oneness, academics and sci-fi enthusiasts who associate Brasília with ancient Egypt or the lost city of Atlantis. Land was given to almost any religous group that was legally constituted so many non-mainstream groups were able to built their temples or churches at low cost and exempt of taxes. Their dreams are fed by an alien-looking cityscape, a showcase for Modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer.

Wikipedia needs designers! (It won't necessarily be on spec -- see talk.)

Conventionally, time is divided into three distinct regions; the "past", the "present", and the "future". This model presents a number of difficult philosophical problems, and is difficult to reconcile with current accepted scientific theories. Block time.

Classification of demons

Baidu Baike (aka Baidupedia) just launched -- it's billed as a "Chinese Wikipedia" (though it's not actually a wiki -- users submit content and administrators must approve it). Censorship, of course, since it's a Chinese endevour: no mentions allowed of Tianammen Square, democracy, human rights, etc. The launch coincided with a crackdown on attempts to access Wikipedia from the Chinese mainland.

It's not all bad. Baidu Baike could act as an interesting testing ground: a highly publicized, widely used system somewhere (structurally) between Wikipedia and Everything2.

Wikipedia is more popular than Jesus (who is himself more popular than the Beatles).

Bōsōzoku were first seen in the 1950s as Japanese youth began to see more products of industry, such as cars and bikes. The first bōsozōku were known as kaminari-zoku or "Lightning Tribes".

Tame Silver Foxes are the results of an experiment to domesticate the silver fox, started many years ago in Russia. Notably, the foxes did not only became more tame, but more dog-like as well.

A 1997 conference of musicians and philosophers discussed the implications of his instruction to play the piece "as slow as possible", given that an organ imposes virtually no time limits. A project emerged to perform the piece so that it would take a total of 639 years to play. (There's a note change tomorrow.)

List of snowclones. (A snowclone is a a type of formula-based cliché that uses an old idiom in a new context.)

The Korean wave refers to the popularity of South Korean popular culture in other Asian countries; it has been likened to the British Invasion.

In the Soviet Union, three Winnie the Pooh stories were made into celebrated cartoons by Soyuzmultfilm. Quotes and songs from the films are still a staple of Russian society.


Vinni Pukh (1969)

The Führerbunker is a common name for a complex of subterranean rooms in Berlin, Germany where Adolf Hitler committed suicide...

In 2005 the location of the bunker was not marked in any way. The immediate area was occupied by a small Chinese restaurant and mini mall while the emergency exit point for the bunker (which had been in the Reichskanzlei gardens) was occupied by a car park.