Joe Petviashvili

“The U.S. cannot hope to stop the Russian Army from invading Georgia, so the Ghosts slow down the invading forces so that their allies can evacuate.” Date of the invasion: August 2008.

“The total world's population of Haskell programmers fits in a 747. And if that goes down, nobody would even notice.”

11/15/2104 At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote: Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. more...

“Before the Eternal September, but after the Great Renaming, I learned about sex on Usenet. A few years later, on a Mac SE in a college basement, I met friends I still have today. We "spewed" about our teenage lives more...

Occasionally, Wikipedians lose their minds and get into edit wars over the most petty things. Though not comprehensive or authoritative, this page documents this "color of the bikeshed" phenomenon by showing some of the worst-case scenarios where obsessed Wikipedians have more...

“refers to the state of having too much information to make a decision or remain informed about a topic.”

a CIA project launched by the Directorate of Science & Technology in the 1960s attempting to use cats in spy missions. A battery and a microphone were implanted into a cat and an antenna into its tail.

“DEFENDER of the favicon is a JavaScript remake of Eugene Jarvis' brilliant arcade game Defender written by Mathieu 'p01' Henri and inspired by Scott Schiller's experiment with generated favicons VU meter. The idea was to push the concept of generated more...

The Biographicon is for everyone's biography. Including yours.

A German politician has filed charges with Berlin police against Wikipedia's German language site on the grounds that it contains "too much Nazi symbolism, particularly an article on the Hitler Youth movement".

experiment essentially involves looking at the Schrödinger's cat experiment from the point of view of the cat.

Why: It's the warm fuzzy feeling of having the sum of all human knowledge in your pocket. It's the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy realised. EDGE is slow; search is slow; you're abroad, in a plane, a tunnel, or on more...

What is the purpose of this blog? Simple. The purpose of this blog is to expose and explain why it is that wikipedia is a failed system. Anyone coming here likely has tried to make a correction to wikipedia, only more...

It would seem that the address was banned because Judd Bagley has accused Wikipedia's uber-administrators of skewing the contents of four online articles. Yes, just four. But those four articles may sway the fate of billions of dollars spilling through more...