the problem with wikipedia


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The last 48h or so of Wikipedia searches

5150 (Involuntary psychiatric hold)
Thrust stage
BOFH
Niall of the Nine Hostages
Human Y-Chromosome DNA haplogroups
List of Y-DNA single nucleotide polymorphisms
Haplogroup R1b
Haplogroup
Population genetics
Hallsatt culture
Celt
Old High German
Alemannic German
High German languages
Alamanni
Old High German
Classical antiquity
Germanic peoples
Getae
Fall of Rome
Dark Ages
History of Europe
Sigmaringen district
Herdwangen-Schönach
Black Forest
List of the Child Ballads
The Real World
The Fause Knight Upon The Road
Peace Corps
Reality television
Thomas the Rhymer
Colitis
Nielsen ratings
Child Ballad
TheGreatHatsby
Donburi
Roti
Steganography
Halliburton
Library
Prisoner's Dilemma
Street layout of Seattle
Four-minute mile
Phreaker
DEF CON
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Eric Gorden Corley
Hacker (computer security)
List of most common surnames
Community card poker
Computer crime
Black hat
0-day
Texas hold 'em
Blue box (phreaking)
Risk (game)
Kaiser roll

I really need to just set up a service for writers: "email me with what you need to know; I will choke Google and Wikipedia until I get an answer for you."

Posted by Denise on February 15, 2008 3:49 PM | | Comments (0)

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