Friday, August 25, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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.
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Saturday, August 19, 2006
Friday, August 18, 2006
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.")
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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.
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
The Ryugyong is a towering, empty concrete shell that was once intended for use as a hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea.
Monday, August 14, 2006
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.
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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?
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
NYTimes article on Wikimania, though not by the reporter I ran into.
In other news: A chinese wikipedia-style site was forced to shut down. (Sidenote: the chinese wikipedians I encountered at Wikimania were endearingly thrilled to be there. There has to be a way for an uncensored wikipedia to coexist with the PRC governmnet.)
I'm posting from Bedford-Stuyvesant (which I only recently learned how to pronounce.
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
The Wikimania archives are mostly complete by now -- audio and video from the sessions.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
What's Happening to Knowledge? was great, but I walked in the the middle so I won't summarize.


