I could read wikipedia all day long. Is there a job I could get that would allow me to do that? I think I would really excel.
For a while, I've kept a bookmark folder of most (but not all) of the interesting articles I've read on wikipedia. I'm not sure why I've done this as I have never once returned to the folder...until this morning. Oh man. It's a goldmine. A mine full of gold.
It would be CRIMINAL of me to keep this collection of links to myself. So get ready to not get any work done today because you're about to take a dip in the magical pool of wikipedia
- Culture-Bound Syndrome- diseases and other maladies invented and isolated to certain cultures. I'm most concerned with Ghost Sickness (American Indian) and Brain Fag (West Africa). I kind of think restless leg syndrome is an American version of this, but I'm sure I'll be hearing from them via email telling me I'm wrong. I do know lots of brainy fags though.
- Casu Marzu- A Sardinian cheese made with live maggots.
- 1700-1750 in fashion- Don't know why, just thought this was interesting
- Sailing Stones- hugeass rocks that move on their own/magic/some natural explanation
- Bonsai Kitten- internet hoax
- 2007 Boston Bomb Scare- on the moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with moon rocks.
- Meta-Joke- jokes about jokes
- Cluster ballooning
- Avant-garde
- List of Fatal Bear Attacks in North America
- From Hell- a letter written by a man claiming to be Jack the Ripper
- List of books banned by governments
- Paper and Pencil Game
- Bloop- underwater sound recorded and thought to be made by a sea monster
- Placebo button- I knew those close door buttons on elevators were really just giving me the finger
- The Human Condition- a painting by Rene Magritte
- Kastenlauf- european drinking game
- Dandy- a gallant man who places importance on physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies
- Needle Ice- subterranean moisture brought to the surface via capillary action
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights- thou shalt not waterboard?
- Satanic Ritual Abuse
- Conversation Theory- how we talk to each other
- Wolfe +585, Senior- the man with the longest personal name ever
- Santorum- filthy redefinition of everyone's favorite republican former senator
- Double Entendre
- Nannie Doss- female serial killer
- Island of California
- Coso Artifact- spark plug found encased in a 500 thousand year old mineral. Maybe Creationism is accurate?
- Hòa thượng Thích Quảng Đức- self immolating Vietnamese Buddhist monk
- Fainting goat- these guys are awesome
- Object sexuality- attraction towards inanimate objects
- Prisoner's dilemma- part of game theory
- Museum of Bad Art
- Robert Mugabe
- Kilroy was here
- Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft- legal dispute between microsoft and a high school student
- Alien Abduction Insurance- is there a public option?
- Love dart- in short, it's a snail penis
- Axon- are you cognizant of every synapse?
- Incidents at Six flags parks
- Franz Reichelt- died jumping off the Eiffel Tower in a homemade parachute suit
- Mass hysteria
- Shugborough Inscription- real life Da Vinci Code. It's mystery time!
- The Spins- vom dot com
- Missing White Woman Syndrome- I can't wait for this to work in my favor someday. Not blond though...
- Jon Stewart's 2009 criticism of CNBC- yup there is a wikipedia page for this high school drama
- Snow White and the Madness of Truth- Swedish installation art
- Human vestigiality- parts of our bodies we've evolved beyond like the appendix and wisdom teeth. forget what i said about Creationism above. I'm back on Team Monkey.
- Dante's Divine Comedy- the wikipedia page is much easier to read than the actual text
- Green Man/Charlie No-Face- western Pennsylvania urban legend
- Montauk monster
- Abolitionism (bioethics)
- Postdiction
- List of Inventors killed by their own inventions
- Continuous Partial Attention
- List of collective nouns- these are so strange. a parliament of owls.
- Vassilis Paleokostas- escaped from prison twice
- One Red Paperclip- how a man made a series of trades and went from a red paperclip to a house
- Frank Abagnale- the Catch Me If You Can man
- Dancing Plague of 1518- catch it!
- Andy Warhol
- Josef Fritzl- kept his daughter captive in the basement for 24 years
- Michael Malloy- you can't kill him
- Nils Olav- a knighted penguin
- The World Famous Bushman- found at Fisherman's Wharf
- Psychological pricing
- Freedom Tunnel- under Riverside Park in Manhattan
- Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
You're welcome.
As somebody who works on Wikipedia, it warms my heart to see this.
Four of my favorites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_Heilbronn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_umlaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult
Have you ever edited an article?
Posted by: William | 01/07/2010 at 06:04 PM
I appreciate the work of all people who share information with others.
Posted by: College Research Paper | 01/09/2010 at 04:54 AM
that casu marzu thing is ruining my life.
Posted by: alice | 01/10/2010 at 04:08 PM
I already knew about the casu marzu. But the Boston bomb scare - I'd never heard about that. Fantastically funny, esp. the pressconference those guys gave after they were released on bail.
Am now off to read about Swedish installation art.
Thanks for sharing your precious with us.
Posted by: Renate | 01/12/2010 at 12:28 PM
Buffalo buffalo is ruining my life. Literally literally turning me into a crazy person person.
Posted by: Brandon | 01/12/2010 at 10:52 PM
You are NOT doing well keeping up w/your resolution of blogging more often!!! :( How are you? What's going on in your life?
Posted by: E | 01/27/2010 at 12:20 PM
I AGREE WITH E. MORE UPDATES, PLZ.
Posted by: B | 01/28/2010 at 04:22 PM