The thagomizer is the arrangement of four to ten spikes on the tail of particular dinosaurs, like the famous Stegosaurus, in the clade Stegosauria. (See also: Horrendous Space Kablooie.)

The next version of Apple's word processor (iWork) is rumored to integrate with Wikipedia. It would be nice if it plopped wikipedia text into the document and encouraged people to use it (god, I wish people would unlearn the draconian copyright rules they're taught to refexively apply: you can use wikipedia text anywhere -- even tweak it for style and accuracy, and use it for profit -- as long as you say where it's from). But more likely it's just a search tool.

The Vermont Republic was a North American independent republic that lasted from 1777 to 1791

Yasunori Mitsuda (born January 21, 1972) is a Japanese composer and musician best known for his soundtracks for various video games.

Long interview about how wikipedia works. Some interesting stuff about differences between language versions.

A Hollow Earth theory posits that the planet Earth has a hollow interior and probably a habitable inner surface.