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Today, however, the methods are more or less clear: Google would be a good place to start, but the way I found the information just now was to consult Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org), the web-based self-proclaimed “free encyclopedia.” The wildly popular site contains some half million articles in English (twice that with other languages thrown in), on topics ranging from Madonna (the 19th century Edvard Munch Painting) to Madonna (the... well, you know...
Wikipedia also contains lies. I know, because I’m responsible for one of them: As of this writing, the year in which Yale University was founded according to the encyclopedia is not 1701 as it rightfully should be but 1702; I’ve committed my own personal one-year slight against the prestige of our younger sibling in New Haven...
...bitter invective to his weblog slamming court citations of Wikipedia as absurd given the nature of the source, but the most florid prose on the subject comes perhaps from Robert McHenry, chief of the (less and less popular—let’s keep our private interests straight) Encyclopedia Britannica. McHenry has compared Wikipedia to a public restroom: Such a facility may be obviously dirty, he has said, or it may look quite clean, but either way one has no real way of knowing who used it last...
...longest winning streak in game-show history ended last week when California real estate agent NANCY ZERG beat Jeopardy!'s human encyclopedia, KEN JENNINGS. The dethroned champ, who is about to get taxed for taking home $2.5 million in winnings, missed a Final Jeopardy question about H. & R. Block. Zerg, a former actress, didn't have long to celebrate after ending Jennings' 74-game streak. She lost on the next show...
...solution and said they would need to study it much more carefully before passing judgment. Says Preskill: "The mechanism he has in mind may not be so revolutionary." Nevertheless, Hawking acknowledged that Preskill had been right all along and paid off with the agreed-on prize: an encyclopedia. (The joke is that an encyclopedia, unlike a black hole, yields information easily. Hawking offered one on cricket, but Preskill held out for Total Baseball: The Ultimate Baseball Encyclopedia, which had to be flown...