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Castle doctrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I wonder how long this insane Castle Doctrine wikipedia page is gonna stay tabbed
wikipedia  politics  guns  from twitter
6 weeks ago by saranrapjs
Mario - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In which I do my quarterly consideration of Mario's full name as "Mario Mario"
mariomario  wikipedia  from twitter
11 weeks ago by saranrapjs
Casey Kasem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In which I do my yearly visit to Casey Kasem's wikipedia page
wikipedia  from twitter
11 weeks ago by saranrapjs
Friedman (unit) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"a unit of time equal to six months in the future" (from Thomas Friedman's infinite "The next six months in iraq will..." series of inanity)
words  linguistics  war  wikipedia  fuck_friedman 
january 2012 by saranrapjs
Photic sneeze reflex - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
a real thing where people sneeze when exposed to the sun. interesting example of "bullshit-sounding-thing is real" via kathryn
body  medicine  wikipedia  sneeze  sun 
may 2011 by saranrapjs
Cropmark - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
" Crop marks are a means through which sub-surface archaeological, natural and recent features may be visible from the air or a vantage point on higher ground or a temporary platform" via migurski
earth  satellite  wikipedia  nature  from delicious
march 2011 by saranrapjs
Uncleftish Beholding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
what if the english language was derived without latin roots:  "today we have a beholding of stuff and work that watching bears out, both in the workstead and in daily life" via someone
language  german  linguistics  wikipedia  science_fiction  from delicious
february 2011 by saranrapjs
King Fahd Causeway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
giant causeway for fun-seeking saudi arabians plays a role in bahraini crisis<br />
“Saudi Arabia did not build a causeway to Bahrain just so that Saudis could party on weekends,” said Toby Jones, an expert on Saudi Arabia at Rutgers University. “It was designed for moments like this, for keeping Bahrain under control.” see http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/20/world/middleeast/20saudi.html
bahrain  saudi_arabia  infrastructure  architecture  news  politics  wikipedia  nytimes  from delicious
february 2011 by saranrapjs
Gerald Ratner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"achieved notoriety after making a speech in which he jokingly denigrated the company's products, which caused the company's near collapse"
business  ideas  wikipedia  from delicious
january 2011 by saranrapjs
Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original" via someone, good list here
design  ideas  style  wikipedia  words 
december 2010 by saranrapjs
Duck universe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The money bin was built in 1902, shortly after Scrooge entered the diamond market and could no longer sleep at night because all the money he was storing under his mattress raised his bed too close to the ceiling, necessitating a more suitable storage facility for his money. His favorite pastime is to dive off a springboard into his money and swim through it."
ducktales  wikipedia  cartoons 
december 2010 by saranrapjs
Remote Bar Coding System - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When an MLOCR does not recognize a valid address on a letter, (usually due to hand-written addressing) it sends an image of the mailpiece to a central RBCS (RVE) site where more sophisticated optical character recognition software is able to interpret many hand-written addresses using neural net and fuzzy logic algorithms. If this does not succeed, human operators visually examine the image and enter the address.
us  mail  government  wikipedia  computers 
june 2010 by saranrapjs
Nomothetic and idiographic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nomothetic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to generalize /
Idiographic is based on what Kant described as a tendency to specify
wikipedia  philosophy  kant  ideas 
april 2010 by saranrapjs
Interview with Alan N. Shapiro | Wikipedia, Critical Point of View
choice bits on sociology of knowledge, flaubert, WIKIPEDIA via tom moody
wikipedia  interview  theory  knowledge  flaubert 
march 2010 by saranrapjs
Moravec's paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The main lesson of thirty-five years of AI research is that the hard problems are easy and the easy problems are hard" via migurski
ai  cognition  wikipedia 
january 2010 by saranrapjs
Walking Stewart - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Stewart is thought to have walked alone across Persia, Abyssinia, Arabia and Africa before wandering into every European country as far east as Russia." ... "developed a unique brand of materialist philosophy which combines elements of Spinozistic pantheism with yogic notions of a single indissoluble consciousness"
wikipedia  philosophy  walking 
december 2009 by saranrapjs
Boston Review — Evgeny Morozov: Edit This Page
the economics of wikipedia participation / shaping editorial policy / the kinds of resultant content
wikipedia  politics  concepts 
december 2009 by saranrapjs
Lazy river - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"There is generally a slow current, usually just enough to allow guests to gently ride along lying on rafts. There may also be scenic elements added, such as small waterfalls on the edge of the river. Some lead into wave pools, while some just go around in circles."
USA  amusement  wikipedia 
december 2009 by saranrapjs
Subjunctive mood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
always tryin "to express wishes, commands, emotion, possibility, judgment, opinion, necessity, or statements that are contrary to fact at present"
language  french  wikipedia  linguistics 
december 2009 by saranrapjs
Place cell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
neurons that fire in given places (via blackbeltjones)
brain  science  place  wikipedia 
october 2009 by saranrapjs
Quiet storm - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Quiet storm is a late-night radio format, featuring soulful slow jams, pioneered in the mid-1970s by then-station-intern Melvin Lindsey at WHUR-FM, in Washington, D.C"..."At its best, the style features an urban sophistication and subdued soulfulness"
radio  wikipedia  music 
august 2009 by saranrapjs
Quad Cities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
quad city dj's / midnight express band = quad city scene???
iowa  rap  music  wikipedia 
july 2009 by saranrapjs
Center of population - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"the geographical point nearest to all the inhabitants of that region, on average"; in South Asia, for the world
world  maps  geo  population  data  wikipedia 
june 2009 by saranrapjs
BosWash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BosWash extends from extreme southern Maine and New Hampshire – Boston's suburbs – south to Northern Virginia, Washington D.C.'s suburbs. It has a population of 55 million, or 18 percent of the population of the United States (living on only 2% of the nation's land) and about 0.8 percent of the world population.
wikipedia  cities  nyc  maps  population 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Fashoda syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
britain's straight line intercepts france's straight line in colonial africa: "tendency within French foreign policy in Africa, giving importance to asserting French influence in areas which may be becoming susceptible to British influence"
france  europe  africa  geography  geometry  wikipedia 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Clarke's three laws - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
wikipedia  technology  theory 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Student's Wikipedia hoax quote used worldwide in newspaper obituaries - The Irish Times - Wed, May 06, 2009
“One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was my life, music brought me to life, and music is how I will be remembered long after I leave this life. When I die there will be a final waltz playing in my head, that only I can hear,” Jarre was quoted as saying. However, these words were not uttered by the Oscar-winning composer but written by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin. (SIMILAR TO BORNA'S ART PRESS RELEASE TEXT REPLICATION THEORY)
wikipedia  hoax  artwords 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Çatalhöyük - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PRE-STREETS: "The inhabitants lived in mud-brick houses which were crammed together in an agglutinative manner. No footpaths or streets were used between the dwellings, which were clustered in a honeycomb-like maze. Most were accessed by holes in the ceiling, which were reached by interior and exterior ladders and stairs. Thus, their rooftops were their streets."
wikipedia  archaeology  cities  ideas  streets  street  buildings  architecture 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Lancelot "Capability" Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"This man who refused work in Ireland because he had not finished England was called "Capability" Brown, because he would characteristically tell his landed clients that their estates had great "capability" for landscape improvement"
landscape  UK  wikipedia  environment 
may 2009 by saranrapjs
Taxicab geometry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"The taxicab metric is also known as rectilinear distance, L1 distance or L1 norm (see Lp space), city block distance, Manhattan distance, or Manhattan length, with corresponding variations in the name of the geometry.[1] The last name alludes to the grid layout of most streets on the island of Manhattan, which causes the shortest path a car could take between two points in the city to have length equal to the points' distance in taxicab geometry."
wikipedia  geo  NYC  math 
april 2009 by saranrapjs
Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
describes a "phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other character, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection"
wikipedia  architecture  biology  concepts 
april 2009 by saranrapjs
Ley line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Ley lines are hypothetical alignments of a number of places of geographical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths. Their existence was suggested in 1921 by the amateur archaeologist Alfred Watkins, in his book The Old Straight Track."
wikipedia  geography  geodesy  history 
april 2009 by saranrapjs
Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"a phatic expression is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information", "the question 'how are you?' is usually an automatic component of a social encounter. Although there are times when "how are you?" is asked in a sincere, concerned manner and does in fact anticipate a detailed response regarding the respondent's present state, this needs to be pragmatically inferred from context and intonation."
wikipedia  definition_of_terms  words  linguistics 
march 2009 by saranrapjs
Geoid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"geoid is that equipotential surface which would coincide exactly with the mean ocean surface of the Earth, if the oceans were in equilibrium, at rest, and extended through the continents (such as with very narrow canals)" interesting imaginary state of earth used for mathematical calculations
geography  geodesy  wikipedia  earth 
march 2009 by saranrapjs
Annatto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Cheddar cheese is often coloured and even as early as 1860 the real reason for this was unclear"
yellow  cheddar  cheese  wikipedia 
february 2009 by saranrapjs
Mick Foley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
an insanely detailed wikipedia page for WWF's "MANKIND"
wikipedia  wwf  mankind  wrestling  internet 
december 2008 by saranrapjs
Hysteresis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A system with hysteresis can be summarised as a system that may be in any number of states, independent of the inputs to the system. In order to predict the output, we must look at the path that the input followed before it reached its current value. (via mike riley)
wikipedia  systems 
october 2008 by saranrapjs
round tuit - Wiktionary
The origin of the physical round tuit is unknown. There were some appearances in the early to middle 20th century, some cut from cardboard, plastic, paper or brass, but mostly round wood chips about 1.5" in diameter, engraved with the letters "TUIT".
procrastination  stuff  wikipedia 
september 2008 by saranrapjs
Dude - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
has a pretty good list of instances; via ricky
wikipedia  dude 
may 2008 by saranrapjs
Meal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A meal is an instance of eating, specifically one that takes place at a specific time and includes specific, prepared food.
wikipedia  life  food 
april 2008 by saranrapjs
White Tee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
can't believe I never thought to look here before; list of all the white tee spinoffs
dem_franchize_boyz  rap  wikipedia  remix  white_tee 
april 2008 by saranrapjs
Dumpy level - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
always seeing this outside of buildings and construction sites
construction  building  nyc  real_life  wikipedia 
april 2008 by saranrapjs
The Ewing Theory
the absence of cursed sports stars leads to victory; I also like the casual 90210 reference some wikipedia person slipped into the examples list
sports  theory  wikipedia 
april 2008 by saranrapjs
John Titor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I remember someone telling me about this guy when he originally posted. He is my earliest recollection of something like internet famo.us
wikipedia  famo  timetravel  internet 
march 2008 by saranrapjs
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