Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wikipedia. Show all posts

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Fun iPhone app

Here's a Wikipedia app for the iPhone/iPod Touch. No, it's not a specialised browser; it actually has the whole of Wikipedia (from 2007) as a file. Not much use if you have an iPhone with a data plan, but very nice on an iPod Touch. It does, I'm afraid, take up 2GB, but such is life.

Highly recommended if you have a jailbroken iPod Touch.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

More marvels of captioning from Wikipedia

From the world's premier collection of chairs (yes, I know I'm stealing this from the Register, but Valleywag has been doing so too, lately, so I feel justified), comes this wonderful caption:

Well, yes, so it is. Quite frankly, they shouldn't have bothered.

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Stonehenge actually missile site?

From Wikipedia:

Ancient, military and uninhabited structures (such as Stonehenge) are sometimes instead classified as Scheduled Ancient Monuments and protected by much older legislation whilst cultural landscapes such as parks and gardens are currently "listed" on a non-statutory basis.
Oh, those druids.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Wikipedia on the highly important subject of URINALS

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But is it strawberry flavoured?!

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Due to budget cuts at the BBC, this specialised Dalek is currently serving as a urinal.

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In this marvellous modern age, toilets can cater for even the most obscure fetishes.

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This urinal is for use in centrifuges.

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The weaker sex need no longer feel left out of the toilet revolution.

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Eeek!

And now for some quotes.

The plastic mesh guard called a kivah is designed to prevent solid objects (such as cigarette butts, feces, or paper) from being flushed and possibly causing a plumbing stoppage.

I'm glad someone went to the trouble of naming it. Saves on confused plumbers.

Often, one or two of the urinals, typically at one end of a long row of urinals, will be mounted lower than the others, for use by short people, often boys, who can't reach the urinals that are meant for teenage boys and men. These shorter urinals also facilitate use by individuals in wheelchairs

What?! How?

Once used exclusively in commercial or institutional washrooms, urinals for private home installation are now available.

Again, what?! And why?

Ernest Hemingway converted a urinal from Sloppy Joe's bar into a water fountain for his cats.

No more need really be said.


I'm sure it's fascinating.

Friday, March 7, 2008

PayPerLie?

I remember thinking at one point that the obvious extension to the then-lucrative (now happily more or less killed by good old Google) PayPerPost business model would be to simply pay newspaper people and so forth to lie.


As always, the real world seems to have been one step ahead of me.

It is alleged that the head of Wikipedia (a non-profit) modified someone's page and destroyed the history (he certainly destroyed the history) in return for a hefty donation. It is further alleged that Wales likes to fly first class on Wikipedia's buck.

I really, really hope it isn't true. Wikipedia is of dubious trustworthiness enough as it is, without bribery. At the moment, it all seems to be nasty rumours, more or less. We shall see how it pans out.