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Stan Shulster is honorable, acted heroically
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This is a wonderful story of a constructive life. But Stan, like myself, remembers a terrible day in 1954 when four angry individuals from that same Congressional gallery, unfurled a banner, and began shooting our elected representatives below,...
'Murder by Proxy': Documentary-maker looks at workplace violence
1 hour ago

Wikipedia counts more than 20 such incidents from 1986 to 1997 that left 40 people dead. The first was Aug. 20, 1986, in Edmonds, Okla. Sherrill shot and killed 14 postal employees and wounded six others before killing himself. On Nov. 14, 1991,...
So I took this Wired Magazine reporter to a hackathon and we built this app ....
4 hours ago

Dirk de Kok is grinding. Hunched over a MacBook in a fluorescent-lit basement, he and 31 other software engineers pound away at source code for the 12th straight hour. Thick metal bars—actual bars—obscure the few tiny windows. Outside it’s 82 degrees, a...
Todd Lynn
4 hours ago

Further study of the show notes revealed that this season the designer was taking inspiration from the wonderfully named Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum, and by extension his Renaissance-referencing paintings and influential kitsch manifesto. Nerdrum's...
Is online search the death of learning?
6 hours ago

Even a high-performing student like Pottorff, a member of the school debate team, says she uses the site. "I'm in debate, and whenever we get a new topic, I first go to Wikipedia to get a general understanding of it," she said. "I will never put 100...
Youth shaping future of online TV, movies, music
6 hours ago

He's talking, in part, about "blackouts" staged by popular Internet sites that included Wikipedia, the user-generated online encyclopedia, and Reddit, the social news website. With support from Google, Facebook and Twitter, they were protesting the...
Wikipedia Has Islamonausea-Nausea
6 hours ago

Now it seems that Wikipedia has an issue with the new word. According to Nicolai: Wikipedia Deletes ‘Islamonausea’ Remember ‘Islamonausea’? We should all use the word more. In Denmark ‘Islamonausea’ has already been submitted to the Danish Language...
Making sense of Wikipedia categories
7 hours ago

And although I haven't tried it, I suspect that if you use a starting point other than Natural sciences, the depth at which things get weird is going to be very different. So I guess the question is how do deal with this. One thought is to "hope" that...
Elizabeth Cotten
9 hours ago

Wikipedia: A self-taught left-handed guitarist, Cotten developed her own original style. Her approach involved using a right-handed guitar (usually in standard tuning), not re-strung for left-handed playing, essentially, holding a right-handed guitar...
Creator Says If FortressCraft is a Ripoff, So is Minecraft [Minecraft]
12 hours ago

What the hell is Infiniminer? It's "an open source multi-player block-based sandbox building and digging game, in which the player is a miner searching for minerals by carving tunnels through procedurally generated voxel-based maps and building...
The Poor Plight of The Christian Minority In Aleppo / Syria – By Ehsani
12 hours ago

Christian population of Aleppo had dropped to as low as 20%. A Church official present at the meeting suggested that by the time Hafez Assad took over power in 1970, Christians in Aleppo were merely 10% of the city’s population. Over the next four...
OpenStreetMap: 'It's the Wikipedia of maps'
13 hours ago

He has been helped by more than half a million registered contributors from around the world who have mapped their local areas, added details and corrected mistakes on a voluntary basis, without expectation of payment. It's no surprise that Coast...
Letter to the Editor: Altschuler Op-Ed Is 'Chaos Campaigning'
14 hours ago

Thanks for nothing, Randy! You left out the best part: "OfficeTiger expanded to 29 offices and 42 client locations across nine countries and employed 4,000 people in India, 4,000 in Europe, 1,000 in Sri Lanka, 750 in the United States, and 300 in the...
It pays to scam, as typosquatters carry on after adverse ruling
14 hours ago

You are the London, City of winner for November 3rd Please select a prize and enter your email on the next page to claim.'At this stage, the service featured the correct spelling of Wikipedia and further displayed the well known Wikipedia icon. The...
To-do in Broomfield Sunday, Feb. 19
14 hours ago

Haridasas, which means servants of Lord Hari according to Wikipedia, were philosophers, poets and scholars who ushered in the Haridasa cultural movement in India, according to the Wikipedia page. The Colorado Fine Arts Association is an organization...
Minister calls for investigation
16 hours ago

Meantime, House of Commons Speaker Andrew Scheer is investigating whether Vikileaks30 used government computers on Parliament Hill. The Ottawa Citizen reports the Twitter account has been traced back to a Parliamentary Internet protocol address and has...
Can Turkey’s contribution to the Web be reproduced elsewhere?
17 hours ago

It’s an enormous success that few outside Turkey have heard of. This is even more surprising, when you consider that the site just celebrated its thirteenth anniversary February 15th. It’s the grandfather of blogs, older than Wikipedia, Facebook and...
Uzbek Wikipedia blocked in Uzbekistan again
18 hours ago

Wikipedia has been blocked in Uzbekistan: any attempt to access uz.wikipedia.org is re-directed to msn.com. Yet, the site can still be accessed using proxy servers. Wikipedia in Uzbek language was launched in January 2004. As of February 16, 2012 it has...
The Blerd & Gonzo Cover Convo: “I’m Every Woman”
19 hours ago

B: Yeah, this song is actually pretty complex. Only a master class of vocalist can handle this. G: Steely Dan could play the hell out of this groove. B: That’s kinda left field, but Steely Dan could probably play the hell out of anything I wonder who...
When ‘God’ grew a mustache
19 hours ago

And it is. It is a knockout blow. Harvey’s Wikipedia page is, for a variety of reasons, a pretty interesting read. For one thing, his nickname was “God.” For another, the Wikipedia notes: In 1971 he grew a ,[8] at a time when no major league field...

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Wikipedia (pronunciation ) is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the United States-based non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki (a technology for creating collaborative websites) and encyclopedia. Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, it is currently the largest,... Full Article

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