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Archive for May 18th, 2008

Self-modifying code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

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Comment on Gin And The Cognitive Surplus by William Moates

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

He contrasts Wikipedia with television by saying Wiki is interactive, and participatory, whereas TV is passive. You can make TV interactive–ever watch Mystery Science Theater 3000? Ever seen a viewing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show?

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Comment on Unthreaded #34 by Geoff Sherrington

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

To this end, the text contained in Wikipedia is copyrighted (automatically, under the Berne Convention) by Wikipedia contributors and licensed to the public under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL)

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ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)で、イオンド大学の項目の編集、1年ぶり

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

フリー百科事典『ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』で、イオンド大学の項目は、1年近く、編集保護されていて、「イオンド(IOND)とは、International Organization for Nontraditional Distance Learning の略で、非伝統的通信教育のための国際組織という

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Who We Are (According To Wikipedia)

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Culture_Kids. TCKs are often multilingual, highly tolerant of other cultures, and constantly homesick for their adopted country. Moving from country to country often becomes an easy thing for

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Comment on Wikipedia Traffic Grows 8000% in 5 Years Due to Search

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

I can’t help feeling it’s an unfair situation when Wikipedia can essentially rip the content off another site, automatically rank higher than the source and not even throw them back an unfollowed link. Out of interest, will your opinion

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Die deutsche Wikipedia ist tot

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

Ich mag die Wikipedia eigentlich. Du weißt über einen Begriff nicht wirklich Bescheid und willst kurz wissen wo du ihn einordnen sollst - dafür war die deutsche Wikipedia zum Nachschlagen bestens geeignet. Klar, eine jede weiß,

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Haeckel Up For Grabs on Wikipedia

Posted in Wikipedia on May 18, 2008

public domain.

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Actor Tips

Posted in PMwiki on May 18, 2008

It is known to us that actors come here and read things. Mostly, the stuff here is about what writers do. However … there is always at least one “ho…

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New favourite waste of time

Posted in PMwiki on May 18, 2008

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage Huge amount of amusement available here. Including information on wonderful but obscure shows. Wonderfully snarky most of the time, eg “Their idea of a “special effect” was to shine a

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