* Azazel
* Battle Creek
* Bonkers: I Oughta Be in Toons
* Battle Creek
* Bonkers: I Oughta Be in Toons
* Drinking Songs
* Eartha Kitt Anti-War Controversy
* Ferdinand the Bull
* Gibeonites
* Gyro Gearloose
* Jehoshaphat
* Johan and Peewit
* Eartha Kitt Anti-War Controversy
* Ferdinand the Bull
* Gibeonites
* Gyro Gearloose
* Jehoshaphat
* Johan and Peewit
* Hang Down Your Head Tom Dooley
* Herostratus
* History Repeats Itself: The First Time as Tragedy, The Second Time as Farce--addendum 1--addendum 2
* Holy Cow
* How Jack Kirby Characters from the 1970s Figured in the Superman Comic books of the Early 1990s
* Jesus was actually born around 4 BC
* Herostratus
* History Repeats Itself: The First Time as Tragedy, The Second Time as Farce--addendum 1--addendum 2
* Holy Cow
* How Jack Kirby Characters from the 1970s Figured in the Superman Comic books of the Early 1990s
* Jesus was actually born around 4 BC
* Merry Christmas/ Happy Christmas
* Names of the Days of the Week
* Old Man Trump by Woody Guthrie
* Orange: Fruit or Color
* Names of the Days of the Week
* Old Man Trump by Woody Guthrie
* Orange: Fruit or Color
* Peter and the Wolf
* Phan Chu Trinh
* Phan Chu Trinh
* "The American press has literally emasculated President Nixon"
* The Chinese Zodiac and the Cat--addendum
* The Death of James, son of Zebedee
* The Founding of Rome
* The Grand Old Duke of York
* The Kingdom of Kush
* The Mormon Kingdom on Beaver Island, Michigan
* The Chinese Zodiac and the Cat--addendum
* The Death of James, son of Zebedee
* The Founding of Rome
* The Grand Old Duke of York
* The Kingdom of Kush
* The Mormon Kingdom on Beaver Island, Michigan
* Zorro and Son: Failed 1983 TV Series
So... back in April of 2006, when I was spending waaaay too much time on the Internet, I started looking up all kinds of random stuff on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is catnip to someone like me.
Not everyone can dig it, and that's okay. (Different people come in different personality types.) But for someone like me, who is nerdy enough to be obsessed with this kind of trivia, but at the same time scatterbrained enough that I don't have the patience for reading long books---for someone of that temperament, the Internet in general and Wikipedia specifically easily becomes an obsession for learning random interesting facts in small bite-sized chunks.
But of course, what fun is learning all of this interesting trivia if you can't share it with the world?
So I started including a "Useless Wikipedia Fact" as an addendum to every blog post (from April 13, 2006).
It was a fun idea, but once I had established the format, I felt like I had to add a "Useless Wikipedia Fact" to every blog post whether I had anything interesting or not. (That's the problem with being too anal retentive about these projects.) So I abandoned the whole thing a year later.
It was for the best. (90% of my Useless Wikipedia Facts weren't really that interesting anyway). But it did deprive me of an outlet to post the random interesting stuff I would sometimes come across when surfing the Internet.
This past week alone I've felt like I've come across several interesting little nuggets of information. (Probably a sign I'm spending too much time online). Nothing political or particularly relevant to people's lives--just trivia I find interesting.
So, I'm going to experiment with a new format here. I'm going to start posting some of the random interesting facts I come across online. I'm not going to do it at the end of every blog post, but just post it as it's own separate mini-blog post.
I'm not going to commit to anything. It will be as often or as seldom as I feel like it. I might post 3 interesting facts in one day, or go for half a year without posting any interesting facts.
Not all of it will come from Wikipedia. (I'll allow myself to use other sources of information as well). But probably the vast majority of it will, because this is exactly the kind of thing that Wikipedia is perfect for.
I'll collect all of these interesting random facts in an index, which I'll do at the top of this post.
Link of the Day
Noam Chomsky, "Neo-Liberalism: An Accounting"
So... back in April of 2006, when I was spending waaaay too much time on the Internet, I started looking up all kinds of random stuff on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is catnip to someone like me.
Not everyone can dig it, and that's okay. (Different people come in different personality types.) But for someone like me, who is nerdy enough to be obsessed with this kind of trivia, but at the same time scatterbrained enough that I don't have the patience for reading long books---for someone of that temperament, the Internet in general and Wikipedia specifically easily becomes an obsession for learning random interesting facts in small bite-sized chunks.
But of course, what fun is learning all of this interesting trivia if you can't share it with the world?
So I started including a "Useless Wikipedia Fact" as an addendum to every blog post (from April 13, 2006).
It was a fun idea, but once I had established the format, I felt like I had to add a "Useless Wikipedia Fact" to every blog post whether I had anything interesting or not. (That's the problem with being too anal retentive about these projects.) So I abandoned the whole thing a year later.
It was for the best. (90% of my Useless Wikipedia Facts weren't really that interesting anyway). But it did deprive me of an outlet to post the random interesting stuff I would sometimes come across when surfing the Internet.
This past week alone I've felt like I've come across several interesting little nuggets of information. (Probably a sign I'm spending too much time online). Nothing political or particularly relevant to people's lives--just trivia I find interesting.
So, I'm going to experiment with a new format here. I'm going to start posting some of the random interesting facts I come across online. I'm not going to do it at the end of every blog post, but just post it as it's own separate mini-blog post.
I'm not going to commit to anything. It will be as often or as seldom as I feel like it. I might post 3 interesting facts in one day, or go for half a year without posting any interesting facts.
Not all of it will come from Wikipedia. (I'll allow myself to use other sources of information as well). But probably the vast majority of it will, because this is exactly the kind of thing that Wikipedia is perfect for.
I'll collect all of these interesting random facts in an index, which I'll do at the top of this post.
Link of the Day
Noam Chomsky, "Neo-Liberalism: An Accounting"
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