Wikipedia

My collection of Wikipedia pages I've read

Extreme points of Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | Feb 17, 2012

Bitcoin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

a decentralized electronic cash system using peer-to-peer networking, digital signatures and cryptographic proof to enable irreversible payments between parties without relying on trust.

  | Jan 1, 2012

Wikipedia:Sound/list - Wikipedia

A huge list of music files, many classical pieces, etc.

  | Dec 13, 2011

Californium - Wikipedia

Element 98 on the Periodic Table

  | Dec 9, 2011

Centralia, Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This should be a travel destination at some point... before there is nothing left.

  | Dec 4, 2011

Deer Cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The cave was surveyed for the first time in the year 1978, producing measurements of 174m wide and 122m high in one section that passed through the mountain for a distance of one kilometer.

  | Oct 10, 2011

Nag Hammadi library - Wikipedia

  | Sep 30, 2011

Mustafa Kemal Atatrk - Wikipedia

Interesting guy. Turned the former Ottoman Empire into the Republic of Turkey. Changed the county's official alphabet and brought raised literacy from 10 to 70 percent in 2 years.

  | Sep 25, 2011

Indium arsenide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Indium arsenide is used for construction of infrared detectors, for the wavelength range of 1'"3.8 m. The detectors are usually photovoltaic photodiodes.

  | Aug 7, 2011

List of fallacies - Wikipedia

  | Aug 6, 2011

Kenneth Anger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

American underground experimental filmmaker. His films variously merge surrealism with homoeroticism and the occult. Born February 3, 1927. Fascinated by the notorious English occultist Aleister Crowley.

  | Jul 21, 2011

Gbekli Tepe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | Jul 18, 2011

Snowclone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A cliche' template

  | Jul 11, 2011

Diane Arbus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Her photo of two twin girls inspired Stanley Kubrick to use the same imagery in The Shining.

  | Jul 7, 2011

RDFa - Wikipediaa

Allows additional metadata in xhtml. For example, any tag can have the "property" attribute to give more information about the data enclosed by the tag.

  | Jun 1, 2011

Pimsleur language learning system - Wikipedia

  | Apr 15, 2011

Charles R. Knight - Wikipedia

Created many of the famous dinosaur illustrations and paintings recognized today.

  | Apr 14, 2011

Histoires extraordinaires - Wikipedia

American International Pictures distributed this horror anthology film featuring three stories by Edgar Allan Poe directed by European directors Roger Vadim, Louis Malle and Federico Fellini.

  | Apr 13, 2011

Bugatti Veyron - Wikipedia

0-60 in 2.5 sec

  | Apr 3, 2011

Schrdinger's cat - Wikipedia

Schrdinger's cat is a thought experiment, usually described as a paradox, devised by Austrian physicist Erwin Schrdinger in 1935. It illustrates what he saw as the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

  | Mar 29, 2011

Catatumbo lightning - Wikipedia

It originates from a mass of storm clouds that create a voltaic arc at more than 5 km of height, during 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour.

  | Mar 20, 2011

Jock Sturges - Wikipedia

  | Mar 9, 2011

Hapax legomenon - Wikipedia

A word that only appears once in the written record of a language, the works of an author, or in a single text.

  | Feb 15, 2011

Website awards - Wikipedia

lists and summarizes the major sites that present awards to web sites.

  | Jan 16, 2011

Richard C. Hoagland - Wikipedia

  | Dec 26, 2010

Brookings Report - Wikipedia

  | Dec 26, 2010

The Law of Success - Wikipedia

With the passage of the text into the public domain, numerous reprints have arisen for sale due to the popularity and originality of the material, with some copies being peddled through late-night infomercials.

  | Dec 20, 2010

Ishmael (novel) - Wikipedia

  | Dec 20, 2010

High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program - Wikipedia

HAARP is the subject of numerous conspiracy theories, with individuals ascribing various hidden motives and capabilities to the project.

  | Sep 10, 2010

URI scheme - Wikipedia

foo://username:password@example.com:8042

  | Aug 28, 2010

Film noir - Wikipedia

Hmmm, most of my favorite films fall into this category...

  | Jun 20, 2010

Ouroboros - Wikipedia

  | May 30, 2010

Golden ratio - Wikipedia

The golden ratio is an irrational mathematical constant, approximately 1.6180339887.

  | Jan 26, 2010

COINTELPRO - Wikipedia

...a series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States.

  | Jan 18, 2010

Elizabeth Bathory - Wikipedia

Tortured and killed hundreds of young girls. Legend has it that she bathed in their blood to preserve her youth. Her birthday was August 7, Leo.

  | Jan 1, 2010

Female serial killers - Wikipedia

A fairly comprehensive list of female serial killers

  | Jan 1, 2010

Bloody Benders - Wikipedia

Interesting little story about a family of serial killers.

  | Jan 1, 2010

Technological singularity - Wikipedia

...the short-term emergence of a self-improving artificial intelligence or superintelligence[1] that is so much beyond humans' present capabilities that it becomes impossible to understand it with present conceptions.

  | Dec 22, 2009

Opposition to water fluoridation - Wikipedia

Fluoridation is scary!

  | Nov 28, 2009

Ochlocracy - Wikipedia

"Mob Rule"

  | Nov 26, 2009

Nyx - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Nyx, the goddess of night and depicted as a figure of exceptional power and beauty. Born of Chaos, some of her children are Moros (fate), Thanatos (death), Hypnos (sleep), and Charon (the ferryman of Hades).

  | Nov 1, 2009

Tannhauser Gate - Wikipedia

  | Sep 25, 2009

Pescetarianism - Wikipedia

basically vegetarians who eat fish

  | Sep 11, 2009

Anti-intellectualism in American Life - Wikipedia

  | Jul 5, 2009

Cat righting reflex - Wikipedia

  | Jun 26, 2009

Battle of Trafalgar - Wikipedia

In 1805, 27 British ships led by Admiral Lord Nelson aboard HMS Victory defeated 33 French and Spanish ships

  | Jun 14, 2009

Goa trance - Wikipedia

  | Jun 9, 2009

Psychedelic trance - Wikipedia

  | Jun 9, 2009

Erich Fromm - Wikipedia

Really interesting philosopher who talks about three escape mechanisms people use to give up their freedom: conforming to society, submitting to authority, and destructiveness.

  | Jun 1, 2009

Lux vs Lumens vs Footcandles - Wikipedia

  | May 27, 2009

Fear of youth - Wikipedia

Interesting article

  | May 21, 2009

Donald F. Glut - Wikipedia

Author of the Dinosaur Dictionary as well as a screenwriter for Land of the Lost, Spiderman, Transformers, and more.

  | May 21, 2009

Number of the Beast - Wikipedia

666

  | May 20, 2009

Jack Kerouac - Wikipedia

  | May 2, 2009

Blut Aus Nord - Wikipedia

"a mixture of dark and surreal noises and sounds that create a disturbing and bleak atmosphere."

  | Mar 12, 2009

Eats, Shoots & Leaves - Wikipedia

A book by Lynne Truss about punctuation. Interesting.

  | Mar 8, 2009

Omelette - Wikipedia

  | Feb 27, 2009

Living hinge - Wikipedia

  | Feb 22, 2009

4'33' - Wikipedia

A three-movement composition by American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912'"1992).

  | Feb 7, 2009

Hypertext fiction - Wikipedia

  | Feb 5, 2009

Absinthe - Wikipedia

The "good" stuff is distilled verte absinthe. And you need a special spoon, ice water, and sugar cubes

  | Jan 25, 2009

lighttpd - Wikipedia

Low memory and cpu web server. Lighttpd is used by some of the biggest websites, including sites such as YouTube, Wikipedia and meebo.

  | Jan 25, 2009

Geomagnetic reversal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | Jan 12, 2009

Hypermiling - Wikipedia

  | Jan 6, 2009

Thich Nhat Hanh - Wikipedia

  | Jan 3, 2009

Sexual objectification - Wikipedia

  | Dec 27, 2008

Infornography - Wikipedia

So I guess I'm an infornographer. =)

  | Dec 13, 2008

Organic light-emitting diode - Wikipedia

  | Dec 11, 2008

Magnetic ink character recognition - Wikipedia

Check routing numbers are printed with the MICR E-13B font. A similar font is used to print many of the ISBN numbers on products.

  | Dec 7, 2008

Douay-Rheims Bible - Wikipedia

  | Nov 30, 2008

Giordano Bruno - Wikipedia

Ha! He was burned at the stake for practising "magic". He believed the Sun was at the center of the solar system.

  | Oct 29, 2008

Hunter Scott - Wikipedia

A 12 year old's school project results in a Congressional resolution to clear the name of a World War II Captain.

  | Oct 21, 2008

2000s energy crisis - Wikipedia

In June 2008, OPEC's Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri stated that current world consumption of oil at 87 million bpd was far exceeded by the "paper market" for oil, equal to 1.36 billion bpd, or more than 15 times the actual market demand.

  | Oct 21, 2008

William Delbert Gann - Wikipedia

stock trader that used astrological charts to predict market events. Interesting stuff

  | Oct 18, 2008

Neon Genesis Evangelion (manga) - Wikipedia

  | Oct 17, 2008

William Blake - Wikipedia

  | Aug 20, 2008

International Talk Like a Pirate Day - Wikipedia

Arrrr!! September 19 ye lubbers!!

  | Aug 5, 2008

Frappuccino - Wikipedia

Frappuccino was trademarked by The Coffee Connection, and that trademark was acquired by Starbucks when they bought The Coffee Connection, a 22 store chain with a huge following that Starbucks could not compete with in the Boston market, around 1995.

  | Jul 14, 2008

Kava - Wikipedia

  | Jul 14, 2008

Miracle fruit - Wikipedia

The Miracle Fruit plant produces berries that, when eaten, cause bitter and sour foods (such as lemons and limes) consumed later to taste sweet.

  | Jul 12, 2008

Antikythera mechanism - Wikipedia

An ancient mechanical calculator for predicting astronomical positions. It has been dated to 150-100 BC! This thing is only about 13 x 7 inches and had 37 gears! It accurately determined leap years, moon phase, and more. Amazing!

  | Jul 11, 2008

Longest word in English - Wikipedia

  | Jun 27, 2008

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious - Wikipedia

  | Jun 27, 2008

Unicursal hexagram - Wikipedia

I arrived here from "Gordian Knot", then "Endless Knot". See also "Celtic Knot".

  | Jun 20, 2008

Hellfire Club - Wikipedia

In Glasgow, Scotland there is a chain of "goth" clothing stores named Hellfire. Coincidence?

  | Jun 20, 2008

Maslow's hierarchy of needs - Wikipedia

  | Jun 1, 2008

Ontology - Wikipedia

Ontology studies being or existence and their basic categories and relationships, to determine what entities and what types of entities exist. Ontology thus has strong implications for conceptions of reality.

  | Jun 1, 2008

Occam's razor - Wikipedia

lex parsimoniae

  | Jun 1, 2008

PageRank - Wikipedia

Explains what PageRank is and how it works.

  | May 10, 2008

Henney Kilowatt - Wikipedia

The first production electric car, built in 1959. Unfortunately, it was a failure.

  | May 7, 2008

Caminito del Rey - Wikipedia

  | Apr 21, 2008

Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Wikipedia

my friend Jen works here!

  | Apr 19, 2008

Feature creep - Wikipedia

This is what we try to avoid at Design215!

  | Apr 10, 2008

Extremely high frequency - Wikipedia

Millimeter Wave or MMW is behind the new ADS "Ray Gun" and could also provide wireless HDMI and 2.5 Gigabit wireless data over short distances. When MMW routers come out, will you be able to hack one and use it to fry unwanted solicitors?

  | Mar 1, 2008

Faraday cage - Wikipedia

  | Feb 29, 2008

Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them! - Wikipedia

There's a lesson here somewhere, I'm just not sure what it is...

  | Feb 13, 2008

Rosslyn Chapel - Wikipedia

Are the carvings a cryptogram or a musical score?

  | Feb 3, 2008

Domain tasting - Wikipedia

By February 2007, the CEO of GoDaddy reported that of 55.1 million domain names registered, 51.5 million were canceled and refunded just before the 5 day grace period expired and only 3.6 million domain names were actually kept.

  | Jan 29, 2008

Osteopathic Medicine - Wikipedia

Osteopathic medicine is a diagnostic and therapeutic system based on the premise that the primary role of the physician is to facilitate the body's inherent ability to heal itself. D.O.'s are osteopathic physicians while M.D.'s are allopathic.

  | Nov 14, 2007

Craniosacral therapy - Wikipedia

I tried it. It was very interesting.

  | Nov 13, 2007

Closed-eye hallucination - Wikipedia

  | Sep 6, 2007

Floater - Wikipedia

  | Sep 6, 2007

List of adages named after people - Wikipedia

  | Sep 1, 2007

Cacophony Society - Wikipedia

The first rule of the cacophony society is...

  | Aug 14, 2007

Vignetting - Wikipedia

  | Aug 6, 2007

Numbers station - Wikipedia

Shortwave radio stations of unknown origin where automated voices read streams of numbers, words, or letters. Weird!

  | Aug 1, 2007

Millau Viaduct - Wikipedia

The tallest vehicular bridge in the world. Only 125 feet shorter than the Empire State Building!

  | Jul 24, 2007

Non-Newtonian fluid - Wikipedia

Check out the video links at the end of the page where you'll see some people "walking" on the surface of this fluid!

  | Jul 5, 2007

SAT - Wikipedia

Its interesting how they have renamed this test and changed the scoring system twice since 1990.

  | Jun 27, 2007

Sleep deprivation - Wikipedia

Interesting discussion of possible negative effects of sleep deprivation, including an experiment where students got better grades when they started school an hour later.

  | Jun 21, 2007

Polyphasic sleep - Wikipedia

Ben Franklin said, "There will be sleep enough in the grave".

  | Jun 21, 2007

Stirling engine - Wikipedia

  | May 17, 2007

Angkor Wat - Wikipedia

12th century temple in Cambodia. See also Angkor Thom

  | May 1, 2007

Misanthropy - Wikipedia

Interesting. Mentions Franz Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Sherlock Holmes, and George Carlin.

  | Apr 26, 2007

Sender Policy Framework (SPF Records) - Wikipedia

  | Apr 18, 2007

Slaughterhouse-Five - Wikipedia

One of the most popular works by Kurt Vonnegut

  | Apr 13, 2007

Scooby-Doo - Wikipedia

the Assumed "adult themes" paragraph is amusing. Oh and the fact that all four human characters are based on characters from the Dobie Gillis show is interesting.

  | Apr 12, 2007

Jabberwocky - Wikipedia

"Jabberwocky" is a poem of nonsense verse written by Lewis Carroll, and found as a part of his novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871).

  | Apr 10, 2007

Wandering Jew - Wikipedia

  | Mar 12, 2007

Aleister Crowley - Wikipedia

  | Mar 12, 2007

Fantaisie-Impromptu - Wikipedia

by Chopin

  | Mar 7, 2007

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury - Wikipedia

Everyone needs to read this one, especially today!

  | Feb 22, 2007

Electra complex - Wikipedia

A psychiatric concept based on the Greek myth of Elektra. Weird stuff!

  | Feb 15, 2007

Spam blog - Wikipedia

This is a growing problem for the blogging community. The question is, what can be done about it?

  | Jan 7, 2007

Sping - Wikipedia

Sping is "spam ping" or "trackback spam". Many bloggers been forced to disable the trackback feature.

  | Jan 7, 2007

Philadelphia Experiment - Wikipedia

Very interesting although not one of the best written articles on Wikipedia. The discussion page linked to the article is just as interesting.

  | Dec 30, 2006

THX 1138 - Wikipedia

George Lucas' first feature film

  | Dec 26, 2006

Personal advertisement - Wikipedia

List of acronyms used in personal ads like BBW, BSDM, DWF, etc. The fact that this list exists is amusing in itself or at least to me it is, lol.

  | Dec 24, 2006

Leet - Wikipedia

Keep up with today's counter culture computer gamer jargon or you'll be pwned.

  | Dec 17, 2006

The Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything - Wikipedia

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy...

  | Dec 12, 2006

MacGuffin - Wikipedia

A plot device in a story. The glowing briefcase in Pulp Fiction was the MacGuffin.

  | Dec 12, 2006

Bookmark spam - Wikipedia

Bookmark spam is a type of spam affecting social bookmarking, social software websites such as del.icio.us.

  | Dec 4, 2006

List of pharmaceutical companies - Wikipedia

very interesting statistics

  | Nov 28, 2006

XHTML Basic - Wikipedia

A subset of XHTML 1.1, it is expected to become the standard for handheld devices.

  | Nov 24, 2006

Sherlock Holmes - Wikipedia

A popular misconception is that the Sherlock Holmes stories gave rise to the entire genre of detective fiction. In fact, the Holmes character and his modus operandi were inspired by two predecessors, C. Auguste Dupin and Monsieur Lecoq...

  | Nov 22, 2006

Time-lapse - Wikipedia

Read about John Ott's work with flowers and varying color temperature to cause plants to do different things. Interesting stuff.

  | Nov 21, 2006

Rotoscope - Wikipedia

  | Nov 7, 2006

Alchemy - Wikipedia

  | Oct 25, 2006

Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

Classifications of symmetry in repetitive patterns. These patterns occur in architecture and decorative art. There are 17 possible distinct groups.

  | Oct 6, 2006

M. C. Escher - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

One of my favorite artists

  | Oct 6, 2006

Rootkit - Wikipedia

more fun things to worry about if you run Windows

  | Sep 27, 2006

Bombing of Dresden in World War II - Wikipedia

Were we justified to bomb Dresden? Read the story.

  | Sep 7, 2006

Grigori Rasputin - Wikipedia

I visited the room where he was poisoned.

  | Sep 4, 2006

Monty Hall problem - Wikipedia

An amazingly simple yet confusing math problem.

  | Aug 20, 2006

Charles Allan Gilbert - Wikipedia

Illustrator famous for creating the optical illusion, "All is Vanity"

  | Aug 20, 2006

Benito Mussolini - Wikipedia

Mussolini

  | Aug 8, 2006

Fascism - Wikipedia

Its good to know history so you can watch for trends repeating themselves.

  | Aug 8, 2006

Dragon's Lair - Wikipedia

The laserdisc arcade game from the 80's

  | Aug 7, 2006

Church of the SubGenius - Wikipedia

"Bob" was featured in the Atari ST character set and the Linux distribution Slackware is named for Slack.

  | Aug 7, 2006

Atari ST - Wikipedia

My first computer.

  | Aug 7, 2006

Stone soup - Wikipedia

An interesting analogy someone made in reference to Digg and other community driven Web 2.0 sites.

  | Aug 5, 2006

William S. Burroughs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A primary member of the Beat Generation, and regarded as an avant-garde author who affected popular culture as well as literature. Wrote "Naked Lunch" and provided the spoken word for "Quick Fix" by Ministry.

  | Jul 30, 2006

List of Tagging Networks - Wikipedia

  | Jul 23, 2006

Carabiner - Wikipedia

  | Jul 9, 2006

Man Ray - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | Jul 5, 2006

Khalil Gibran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | Jul 4, 2006

Franz Kafka - Wikipedia

Orson Welles wrote and directed an adaptation of "The Trial" in 1962 starring Anthony Perkins. Welles considered it to be his best film.

  | Jun 10, 2006

Flaming - Wikipedia

Ever heard of the vi vs. emacs "Holy War"?
Welcome to the world of geeks, LOL.

  | Jun 8, 2006

Wardriving - Wikipedia

  | Jun 5, 2006

CAPTCHA - Wikipedia

The system of displaying obscured letters on a form that people have to type in to prove they are human and not an automated computer program like a Spam bot.

  | May 31, 2006

TrackBack - Wikipedia

TrackBack is a mechanism for communication between blogs

  | May 30, 2006

Rewrite engine - Wikipedia

Use Apache mod_rewrite to make website URLs more user friendly and search-engine friendly.

  | May 30, 2006

Global warming controversy - Wikipedia

If you want to learn something, this Wikipedia page presents both sides and tons of links. As far as I'm concerned, the "Global Warming" advocates can produce all the computer models they want. They don't mean anything without valid data.

  | May 26, 2006

List of restaurant chains - Wikipedia

  | May 24, 2006

Denial-of-service attack - Wikipedia

DDos = Distributed Denial of Service

  | May 18, 2006

Tags - Wikipedia

About tags used for the organization of data, like in del.icio.us, flickr, gmail and Linkatopia.

  | May 17, 2006

Folksonomy - Wikipedia

  | May 16, 2006

Freemasonry - Wikipedia

This is really interesting. Did you know George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin were Masons? Thirteen Signers of the U.S. Constitution were Freemasons.

  | May 13, 2006

Scientology - Wikipedia

Read all about the "religion" that's really a bunch of nonsense...
"...during the late 1970's, Scientologists infiltrated the United States Internal Revenue Service and stole confidential documents in what was termed 'Operation Snow White'..."

  | May 13, 2006

Friedrich Nietzsche - Wikipedia

"...successive generations further misunderstood the life of Jesus, as the influence of Christianity grew. By the 19th century, Nietzsche concludes, Christianity had become so worldly as to be a parody of itself."

  | May 10, 2006

Nihilism - Wikipedia

  | May 10, 2006

Hedcut - Wikipedia

  | May 4, 2006

Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Wikipedia

  | May 4, 2006

USATODAY.com - A false Wikipedia 'biography'

  | May 3, 2006

Capsaicin - Wikipedia

The "hot" chemical in chile peppers

  | May 1, 2006

Edgar Allan Poe - Wikipedia

  | May 1, 2006

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  | May 1, 2006

Nigger - Wikipedia

Not what you might think. This is a detailed and fascinating history of this word. Mentions Edgar Allan Poe's story, "The Gold Bug".

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