Humor: The 8 Most Needlessly Detailed Wikipedia Entries

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via CRacked.com (with a hat-tip to GMSV).

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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.

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More:
http://www.cracked.com/index.php?name=News&sid=2411

I love how Anna Kournikova keeps popping up in this. :-)

- - ferg


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 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
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 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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