New form of online crack discovered.

[reddragdiva]

My brain has been eaten by Wikipedia. An open source encyclopedia. Which seems to work surprisingly well. I blame redcountess, who caught the bug from Google when looking for information on the line of succession of the English throne.

arkady and I have started hacking away. Knowing no fear, we have started at Racial Holy War, Ben Klassen and the World Church of the Creator. I could have started at Scientology, except I'm already mentioned. Although I couldn't resist adding to Xenu.

Comments

[xandraius.livejournal.com]

Nice way to kill lots of time. Thank you. Did I mention that I have an informational addiction? BTW, I'll have to go across the bay to Applientology Hell in Clearwater and get you photos of "Goths camping the Scientology HQ".

Wikipedia

[crimsonkismet.livejournal.com]

oooh... it's so... ahhh.. good

Re: Wikipedia

[reddragdiva]

The subject line of this post is a warning.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia just rocks totally. It's got to the point where a good proportion of Google searches end up there anyway.

[phelyan.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is fantastic. The babelfish came up in conversation in the office before christmas, and I could just send the link to the Wikipedia entry to my project manager, instead of explaining it in painful detail.

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is pretty cool.. I went through a spell a couple of months back of perusing it and making the odd update when I was bored at work. :-)

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

p.s. speaking of online crack, I see you've got another article onto Slashdot's front page (http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/01/04/0049249).

[reddragdiva]

Ir s0 l33t I don't bother mentioning them any more. PROPAGANDA TIME!!!

[steer.livejournal.com]

*snicker* Have you looked up goth - the subtypes of Goth are listed as Perkygoth, Mopeygoth, Cybergoth and Visigoth.

Of these only Visigoth has a Wikipedia entry.

A cheap laugh but I laughed anyway.

[cyn-goth-prog.livejournal.com]

I assume you already know about UrbanDictionary.com (http://www.urbandictionary.com/)?

It was first brought to my attention when a friend was attempting to convey the rather questionable concept of "the shocker (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=shocker&f=1)".

[j]

[reddragdiva]

Yes, they appear to have tried very hard indeed.

It was the ridiculous definition of 'mung' that put me off that one.

[damned-colonial.livejournal.com]

Ye gods.

[reddragdiva]

You can see why I didn't put a link.

[hellsop.livejournal.com]

wikitrolls... I knew it had to be.

[reddragdiva]

Spammers, too. Damon Knight and Philip K. Dick and Frederik Pohl nailed this stuff in the '50s.

If you like that, you might also like...

[weatherpixie.livejournal.com]

Everything2 which is the same, but different.

Re: If you like that, you might also like...

[reddragdiva]

Mmm. A bit overdesigned and OSDNish (funnily enough) for my tastes. Still, might be of interest later. One important appealing point of Wikipedia, for me, is that it is intended for general consumption by those who aren't in on the thing.

ALi poi

[dizze.livejournal.com]

On an utterly irrelevant note i have made an animated gif out of the pics on here (http://velvet.net/~fun/ukpix/030225-ali-poi/). It's 4.5 MB tho. I claim my lollypop!

[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

Wikipedia is cool. (You can tell I'm behind with LJ, can't you :-)

The surprising thing is how well it works, given they even allow anonymous updates...

-roy

[ihcoyc.livejournal.com]

Damn but ain't it so? I've written there on Alliterative Verse, and on Lizzie Borden, and on a whole bunch of other stuff. Just finished the surprisingly vacant article on English Verbs.