― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:22 (8 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki (slutsky), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:26 (8 years ago) Permalink
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:52 (8 years ago) Permalink
― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 May 2005 19:54 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Allyzay flies casual (allyzay), Thursday, 26 May 2005 20:11 (8 years ago) Permalink
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 25 July 2005 16:41 (7 years ago) Permalink
"Buddy Holly is gay"
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Wednesday, 28 September 2005 19:53 (7 years ago) Permalink
But he has also "resigned as an operations manager at a Nashville delivery company as a result of the debacle".
OVERREACT MUCH? WTF am I missing something here?
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 December 2005 06:28 (7 years ago) Permalink
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 08:17 (7 years ago) Permalink
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 08:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 08:32 (7 years ago) Permalink
― retarded and gay (bato), Monday, 12 December 2005 08:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 12 December 2005 09:53 (7 years ago) Permalink
― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Monday, 12 December 2005 13:11 (7 years ago) Permalink
― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:11 (7 years ago) Permalink
― baby i'm waiting (cis), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:20 (7 years ago) Permalink
ha ha I love cranks with an axe to grind.
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
Ha, the guy who tracked him down is a notorious crank... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Brandt
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:24 (7 years ago) Permalink
Wikipedia Watch is a website critical of Wikipedia. It is owned by Daniel Brandt, the leader of the Southwestern chapter of Aryan Nations and an Internet activist.
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:26 (7 years ago) Permalink
The first such article I read was published by Salon.com and can be found here (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/29/google_watch/print.html). This article isn't so bad as the others, the author does expose Brandt's motives:
Brandt is not a disinterested party; the dispute between Daniel Brandt and Google is personal. He has spent thousands of hours building a Web site that he believes is both useful and important, and Google, in its algorithmic blindness, has given Brandt a lower page rank than he thinks he's entitled to. Brandt finds it genuinely hard to believe -- and even personally insulting -- that Google won't give him more credit.
However the article does paint Mr. Brandt in a friendly light, and so it lends credibility to his cause - a cause which most if not all search engine professionals would regard as absurd.
The crux of Brandt's argument can be summed up with these paragraphs from the Salon.com article.
When you type "NameBase" into Google, Brandt's site comes up first, but Brandt is not satisfied with that. "My problem has been to get Google to go deep enough into my site," he says. In other words, Brandt wants Google to index the 100,000 names he has in his database, so that a Google search for "Donald Rumsfeld" will bring up NameBase's page for the secretary of defense. For some reason, though, all of NameBase's deep pages -- its pages with specific names and citations -- have a low Google page rank, which causes them to show up low in the search results. Search for "Donald Rumsfeld" in Google and in the first five pages you get a lot of .mil and .gov sites, some news stories, and some activist sites. Namebase's entry on Rumsfeld doesn't come up. (It is in Google's database, but to find it somebody would have to first wade through hundreds of results.)
Why is a Nazi collecting people's names and citations?
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 14:49 (7 years ago) Permalink
One criticism of the Tribune Company is that they are responsible for the Cubs' perpetual losing. The Tribune Company discovered that the Cubs are more profitable fielding a poor team, rather than spending big on free agents. The Chicago Cubs are located in a trendy area of Chicago, causing them to have great attendance at home games, even when the team is doing poorly.
If the Tribune Company is so unhappy about this, why don't they just edit it?
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:03 (7 years ago) Permalink
― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Monday, 12 December 2005 15:12 (7 years ago) Permalink
― s1ocki (slutsky), Monday, 12 December 2005 17:44 (7 years ago) Permalink
ROFFLE
― latebloomer: Deutsch Bag (latebloomer), Monday, 12 December 2005 18:37 (7 years ago) Permalink
― patrick bateman (mickeygraft), Monday, 12 December 2005 22:34 (7 years ago) Permalink
Plus, all the slang...
― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 9 January 2006 15:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Mestema (davidcorp), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:19 (7 years ago) Permalink
― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
Track listing
1. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (Cobain/Grohl/Novoselic) - 5:02 2. "In Bloom" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 4:15 3. "Come As You Are" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:39 4. "Breed" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:04 5. "Lithium" (Cobain) - 4:17 6. "Polly" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:56 7. "Territorial Pissings" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:23 8. "Drain You" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:44 9. "Lounge Act" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 2:37 10. "Stay Away" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:33 11. "On a Plain" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:17 12. "Something In The Way" (Cobain/Nirvana) - 3:51 13. "Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Nirvana)
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:29 (7 years ago) Permalink
it appears to have been edited again, not by me:
"Endless, Nameless" (Hidden track) (Cobain/Hongro/Cuomo/Urkel/Nirvana)
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:55 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Mr Straight Toxic (ghostface), Monday, 16 January 2006 13:56 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:00 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Bryan (Bryan), Monday, 13 February 2006 05:01 (7 years ago) Permalink
Portions of the name sound like vulgarities in English and Spanish, leading to its use in various jokes. Titicaca is the lake that Cornholio, alter-ego of Beavis of MTV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head, claims to come from although he believes the lake is located in Nicaragua.
― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 14 February 2006 03:08 (7 years ago) Permalink
The word 'Trekdom' is used interchangeably with 'Fandom' when referring to Star Trek Fandom or their fans and has been in use by fans of Star Trek fans for several decades.
After the recent cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise, the future of Trekdom is still uncertain, though it has been scaled back to its own core. Some may believe that Trekdom might die off, or it might be extinct at the onset of such conflicts such as World War III.
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 16 April 2006 22:53 (7 years ago) Permalink
"Plus, all the slang..."But shouldn't the 81 be called a 010?
― dr lulu (dr lulu), Sunday, 16 April 2006 23:22 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Jimmy Mod: My theme is DEATH (The Famous Jimmy Mod), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:11 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Pwnjabi MC (Matt Chesnut), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:24 (7 years ago) Permalink
Was what I found at the top of the page when I checked wikipedia a few weeks before starting a class on the Reformation.
― jimnaseum (jimnaseum), Monday, 17 April 2006 01:51 (7 years ago) Permalink
― musically (musically), Monday, 17 April 2006 02:13 (7 years ago) Permalink
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:06 (6 years ago) Permalink
― Machibuse '80 (ex machina), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 20:05 (6 years ago) Permalink
First go here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinued_gay_pornography_awards
Go to the Probe / Men in Video Awards section.
Click on the 1995 recipient of the "Best Bottom" award.
Note the expression on his face.
― Eric H., Monday, 4 June 2007 02:57 (6 years ago) Permalink
LOL
― strgn, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:03 (6 years ago) Permalink
Cultural imperialism at its WTF-est:
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmão GCL (born José Alexandre Gusmão, on June 20, 1946) is a former freedom fighter who became the first President of East Timor since independence from Indonesia. (...) His nickname, "Xanana", is taken from the name of the 1970's rock and roll/comedy group Sha Na Na.
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 19 July 2007 16:19 (5 years ago) Permalink
On a radio interview, Trina said that the relationship was more of a "brother-sister" relationship. Later, on Victoria's RapBasement, Lil Wayne said he knew nothing of the rumors. During Wayne's childhood, he mistakenly got thought of as a gay guy but late he dismissed all these claims by watching naked gun 33 and a third.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lil_Wayne#Personal_life
― acrobat, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 09:23 (5 years ago) Permalink
And in the next chapter:
"Lil Wayne and Trina have recently ended their porno relationship, which was stated by Lil Wayne, himself, on BET's 106 and Park."
Did someone misspell "promo"?
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 09:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
The cartoon image has been there for more than a month:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Black
― StanM, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 07:28 (5 years ago) Permalink
(Phil) Hartman met comedian Paul Reubens while working with the group and the two became friends, often writing and working on material together. One such collaboration was the character of Pee-wee Herman and the script of the feature film Pee-wee's Big Adventure. Hartman also met Jon Lovitz while with The Groundlings. Hartman was fluent in German and a video circulated once of him doing a standup routine in the language.
Hartman worked part time as a graphic artist, including designing album covers for popular rock bands. Hartman's covers include:
* Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja * Poco's 1978 album Legend * Firesign Theatre's 1980 album Fighting Clowns * Three album covers for the band America * Crosby, Stills & Nash's logo.
― negotiable, Wednesday, 26 September 2007 20:14 (5 years ago) Permalink
In September 1996, [presidential daughter Amy] Carter married computer consultant James Gregory Wentzel, whom she had met while attending Tulane. Carter chose not to be given away, stating that she "belonged to no one".
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Monday, 29 April 2013 19:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
Wonder if Gibby Haynes' testicles made the wedding list.
― pplains, Monday, 29 April 2013 19:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
read that abba fact in alan partridge's voice, makes it so much better
― chilli, Monday, 29 April 2013 21:54 (1 month ago) Permalink
This whole thing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_Chef_murders
― Huston we got chicken lol (Phil D.), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 14:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Austin_yogurt_shop_murdersgrowing up in austin, this case and the subsequent investigation/trials/etc surrounding it were like constant background static (as i remember it at least)
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:16 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Knockoutmouse80-72.jpg
― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Thursday, 2 May 2013 03:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
Personal life
Berg is considered a "deadbeat parent" by the Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services, which has published information on Berg's failure to pay child support.
― Popture, Monday, 13 May 2013 01:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
A few days after the contest a woman named Jean Westwood said that she was one of three women who sang for Belle and the Devotions, but they were in hiding. There were rumours that the song was stolen from the Motown classic Baby Love, an international hit in 1964, and originally recorded by Diana Ross and The Supremes.[2]
― shantalla (seandalai), Saturday, 18 May 2013 01:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Stefan Kendal Gordy (born September 3, 1975), better known by his stage name Redfoo, is an American singer, dancer, DJ and rapper best known as part of the musical duo LMFAO. He formed the duo with his nephew, SkyBlu in 2006 and they released two studio albums before going on hiatus in 2012. He is the son of the founder of the Motown Record Company Berry Gordy, Jr. He is also very notable for his big afro.
― yeeznuts (some dude), Monday, 20 May 2013 02:12 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Razorlight debut album, Up All Night, was released on 28 June 2004, reaching number 3 in the UK album charts.[2] The critical reception was generally good, receiving good reviews from NME, Q magazine and Billboard, although they were also accused of lack of imagination, excessive use of barnyard noises and unoriginality for allegedly borrowing ideas from other influential bands such as The Strokes and The Goat brothers. Following the successful release of their debut album, drummer Christian Smith-Pancorvo left the group and was replaced by Andy Burrows. Up All Night was re-issued in April 2005, including the previously unreleased single "Somewhere Else", which peaked at Number 2.
In July 2005, the band performed at Hyde Park, London as part of the Live 8 series of concerts. However, the band came under fire for being the only band to use Chickens as back-up singers. The band was also criticised for catapulting pigs over the audiences heads, before detonating explosive devices which had been surgically inserted inside of the pigs by Johnny Borrell and other members of he band. The band subsequently claimed that due to their "fledgling status", they were unable to make such a commitment.[3]
― my name is louis and i'm an acoleuthic (darraghmac), Monday, 20 May 2013 10:55 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
By her own account Lewinsky had survived the intense media attention during the scandal period by knitting.[26]
― siouxsan sarandon (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 23 May 2013 05:35 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Just all of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:American_buskers
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
Her love for hip hop and artists such as J Dilla and Q-Tip still exists.
― media conglomerates are pedaling the same product (stevie), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:17 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
They are heavily influenced by the Grateful Dead-style of improvisation: state a theme and take it for a walk through the woods.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:19 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
from Dan's link.
In 1999, she moved to Hollywood and began appearing in commercials as well as continuing her musical career. She took up with the lindy hop community, and took lessons in swing dancing. She appeared in a 2002 episode of Gilmore Girls, as a featured dancer during an episode focusing on a dance marathon. She has since relocated to Oberlin, Ohio, where she runs a vintage/retro antique shop.
― how's life, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:23 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
I wanted to see what Shep Pettibone had been up to lately. The wiki entry details his career up to 1987, then:
Later careerFans of Shep Pettibone's 1986 remix of "Was That What It Was" for Pet Shop Boys may be interested to know that Shep Pettibone did not mix that record: he was booked to do so but missed his plane, and his management mixed the song in his absence. It is unknown if Shep Pettibone was consulting the manager over the phone. This fact went unnoticed until Pet Shop Boys revealed it in the liner notes for the Alternative CD anthology of b-sides and rarities (1995). According to the cassette and 12 inch liner notes, Arthur Baker (Afrika Bambaataa, New Order producer) was in the studio guiding this mix.
So guess he's not been up to much then.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 30 May 2013 10:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
2009 Vítkov arson attack
Location Czech Republic Vítkov, Silesia, Czech RepublicCoordinates 49°46′44″N 17°45′22″ECoordinates: 49°46′44″N 17°45′22″EDate night of 18 to 19 April 2009~ 23:45 (UTC+2)Attack type ArsonWeapon(s) Molotov cocktail (Euro regular 95 unleaded gasoline)[1]
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 30 May 2013 21:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
^^^ weird, Europeans wouldn't call it 'gasoline' surely
― Moulden Honaro (S-), Friday, 31 May 2013 05:21 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This kinda took me by surprise. From the Désiré Dondeyne article.
Notable Students of Désiré Dondeyne
Roland DyensPhilippe FerroMarissa MarchantJean-Claude MazureOlivier GuionMasonic Boom Kate
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Saturday, 1 June 2013 07:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
For the Welsh rugby player, see Lou Reed (rugby player).
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 1 June 2013 16:23 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cotton_rat_infected_with_Echinococcus_multilocularis_3MG0020_lores.jpg
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Saturday, 1 June 2013 21:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
How are Buff and Max?
― no man is an islam (onimo), Sunday, 2 June 2013 09:26 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
xxxp
In North America, the term gasoline is often shortened in colloquial usage to gas, while petrol is the common name in the UK, Republic of Ireland and in Commonwealth countries.
― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 2 June 2013 09:30 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
gasoline was common a few decades ago iirc
― the Quim of Bendigo (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 2 June 2013 09:32 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
But 'Price of gas' is something I've heard in a lot of british songs, by Bloc Party and Disco Inforno, right?
― Frederik B, Sunday, 2 June 2013 14:36 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
...or is it bread...
on a similar note to above:
For the billiards player, see Eddy Merckx (billiards player).
Really.
― chilli, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:39 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Merckx was born in 1968, the year cyclist Eddy Merckx won his first Giro d'Italia, and he was named after the cyclist. In daily life, he often adopts the his wife's maiden name to avoid confusion with his much more famous namesake.
― sleepingsignal, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:44 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sucks for him, yeah, but who really came to the page thinking "who's this guy?? i was trying to look up the billiards player!"
― chilli, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Billiards fans?
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 June 2013 18:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
and the .5% of people making that search can also put "billiards" in the search box. you wouldn't expect to type just "eddy merckx" into google and get a ton of billiards results. anyway i'm prob getting too worked up about this, i just thought it was dumb to use the first line of the article to shout out some other random dude
― chilli, Sunday, 2 June 2013 19:15 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
there are probably plenty of rugby fans who aren't aware of lou reed (singer).
― fit and working again, Sunday, 2 June 2013 19:18 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
I've never heard of either Eddy Merckx, so I have no idea if every Eddy Merckx billiards fan would have heard of the other one. Whoever the other one is.
― emil.y, Sunday, 2 June 2013 19:35 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Linda S. Ghent, Professor in the Department of Economics at Eastern Illinois University, discusses this episode in terms of its dramatization of the economic issue of market power. The Soup Nazi has monopoly power because he has the power to alter the market price of the goods and services he sells, such as charging George $2, and then $3, for bread. The soup seller is free to practice price discrimination against George and can banish Elaine from his restaurant because he doesn't like her attitude. Because the Soup Nazi's soup is so good, his reign over New York's soup is powerful to the point that his customers prefer his market, and even his abuse, rather than seek soup elsewhere. Elaine breaks his monopoly when she finds his recipes.[18]
― fit and working again, Sunday, 2 June 2013 21:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
This record shows that Julieta is an accordion of surprises
― seanda.ly (seandalai), Tuesday, 4 June 2013 13:10 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
'Price of gas' is something I've heard in a lot of british songs, by Bloc Party and Disco Inforno
If they do, it's probably in reference to their home gas bills. Natural gas, not gasoline.
― hewing to the status quo with great zealotry (DavidM), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:41 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Dondeyne lost two notable students ;_;
― bob_sleigher (darraghmac), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 12:55 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dannybaker.jpg
Description English: Cropped version of http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dannybakerflugtag.jpg
― no man is an islam (onimo), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 13:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosco_Chocolate_Syrup
As of 2010, Bosco is produced in several flavors in addition to the original chocolate: berry blue, strawberry, caramel, sugar free, and "sugar free pancake syrup" (presumably[by whom?] maple).
― scream blahula scream (govern yourself accordingly), Friday, 7 June 2013 04:55 (1 week ago) Permalink
Who does that, or is it auto-generated, those "[by whom?]" things?
― Mark G, Friday, 7 June 2013 06:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
Pedantic cocks who live on Wikipedia and want a citation for every word.
― no man is an islam (onimo), Friday, 7 June 2013 07:26 (1 week ago) Permalink
"presumably" is a bollocks word to use in an encyclopedia entry tho. editor shd've just removed the bit in parentheses
― sleepish resistance (Noodle Vague), Friday, 7 June 2013 07:30 (1 week ago) Permalink
an article about the oakland bus fight in old anglo-saxon
http://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_Transit_Bus_feoht
― ghosts of erith spectral crackhouse slain rudeboy (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Monday, 10 June 2013 15:40 (1 week ago) Permalink
The King Kong suit for this film has widely been considered to be one of the least appealing and insipid gorilla suits in film history
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 16 June 2013 04:03 (3 days ago) Permalink
POLL
― Mark G, Monday, 17 June 2013 08:04 (2 days ago) Permalink
Man of Steel is a 2013 American superhero film directed by Zack Snyder, produced by Christopher Nolan, and scripted by David S. Goyer. It employs non-linear storytelling.
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 17 June 2013 18:52 (2 days ago) Permalink
Using tacks on a piano runs the risk that the tacks will be ejected from the hammers and can then become lodged in other parts of the mechanism. If the jammed mechanism is then forced by hitting the keys, parts of the action may be broken. More importantly, the holes created in the hammers by the tacks dramatically weaken the hammer felt (which is stretched at high tension over the hammer wood),[1] and may permanently reduce the sound of the piano to dark mush once the tacks are removed.
― even the beatles had a coinstar machine in their living room (Crabbits), Monday, 17 June 2013 19:47 (2 days ago) Permalink