January 26, 2005

Wikipedia: Unusual articles

Fascinating collection of articles at Wikipedia with rather unusual subject matter. Some samples: Douglas Corrigan - A pilot who made such a grave navigational error that, after taking off from New York, he landed in Ireland instead of Los Angeles. Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116 - A name given to a Swedish child by his parents in May 1996. Sokal Affair - A famous hoax played by physicist Alan Sokal on the postmodernist humanities academics world. Meow Wars - Perhaps the largest and longest-lasting flame war in the history of the internet. They also have another page: Wikipedia:Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense. Well there go the next couple hours... Posted by DaveH at January 26, 2005 12:49 PM