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Humor: The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 21:45:56 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via CRacked.com (with a hat-tip to GMSV). [snip] They say "knowledge is power," but "they" seem to forget that most of our knowledge is devoted to subjects that are completely useless and retarded. If you could somehow harness just the brain power that's currently being spent on, say, memorizing fantasy football stats, you could probably cure cancer. Nowhere is humanity's obsession with the inconsequential more obvious than on Wikipedia, where even the most obscure topics get propped up on enormous blocks of text. Here are the most depressing--and somewhat frightening--examples. [snip] More: http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2411 I love how Anna Kournikova keeps popping up in this. :-) - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFG/XYPq1pz9mNUZTMRAr7zAKC4jl5WW3JkFMmQExzCd6eIKsA+agCeJ+BJ U1de+igFzRpA/wMAgdXfuY0= =wuxP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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