Openpedia.org > Wikipedia’s Unusual Article #1

[Andrew Lih] While writing my book about Wikipedia, I’m often asked to name some of the more interesting articles in the online encyclopedia. So here’s the first of a series of occasional posts highlighting the quirky and interesting.

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[Lydia Joyce - Blog] Locative epithets? Only sometimes.: This all began with the report of one of the other bloggers about Dan Brown’s use of “Da Vinci” as a name, referencing something written by journalist for the New Yorker.

[stevenberlinjohnson.com] Can We Please Kill This Meme Now: Second, it’s worth noting that the word “serendipity” was coined by Sir Horace Walpole in a 1754 letter, and he defined it as “accidental sagacity.” Each word in that definition is important: accidental discoveries happen to everyone, but not everyone has the “sagacity” to benefit from them. I wonder how many major scientific discoveries have been based on phenomena that countless people noted but only one person had the shrewdness to see the significance of.

[Lost Garden] Viki: A visual wiki design: Remember when you were a young and you drew epic images on giant rolls of butcher paper? The little boys would draw cool spaceships and army men battling one another in landscape full of tunnels, fortresses and lots of explosions.

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