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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is joining decision-making engine Hunch's board of directors and will serve as an advisor to the startup. Hunch was recently launched by Flickr co-founder Caterina Fake as a platform to help users make decisions spanning a wide array of topics. To help users make their decisions, Hunch presents them with a brief series of questions that have been submitted by other ...
The blog Zero Geography has created a heatmap illustrating the total number of Wikipedia articles tagged to each nation that reveals surprising facts about the content, and oversights, of the online encyclopedia.
Bored at work? Wondering how to celebrate your Jewish pet? Or if you can pwn Wikipedia? Look no further: HuffPost Comedy has picked 7 sites for you to waste time on that will answer all of these questions and more!
Image via Wikipedia Highlights of the interesting and the important from the world of health care. Sweating 510k changes: In an interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune , a local lawyer and medical device expert expresses nervousness about possible changes to the FDA's 510k process. President Obama's appointee to head up the FDA has called the agency's device unit "troubled," so there's ...
This heat cold map signifies the total number of Wikis tied to each country. The designer learned there are literally more articles written about Antarctica and even Middle Earth than many countries...
Get the latest news alerts: Follow LTW at Twitter. RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Vint Cerf, one of the “Fathers of the Internet,” and Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia, have joined the speakers lineup for the Southeast Venture Conference.
Ron Livingston, who played Carrie Bradshaw's boyfriend Jack Berger in Sex and the City, is taking an unnamed person to court for spreading "malicious" rumors on his Wikipedia page that he's gay.
Image Caption: Illustration of what the eruption might have looked like from approximately 50 miles (80 km) above Pulau Simeulue. Courtesy Wikipedia
U.S. actor Ron Livingston is suing Wikipedia, saying the online encyclopedia's page about him incorrectly identifies him as gay.
Search Google for Ron Livingston , the man of Office Space (and Sex and the City) fame, and you’ll find IMDB links for information on his acting career. You’ll also come across a
What's Your Reaction? Wikipedia doesn't always get it right. At least, that's what actor Ron Livingston wants you to believe.
Grab some milk, a sleeve of Oreos, and start observing kids, because today is National Cookie Day . (Eee!) Its name, according to Wikipedia , comes the Dutch word koekje or koekie meaning "little cake." From snickerdoodles and peanut butter cookies to Chips Ahoys and fortune cookies, they're all pretty much a delightful treat, perfecting for a light dessert of manic binge eating. The world's ...
Linux Planet: "There are more options than ever for mobile Internet, from ubiquitous wi-fi hotspots to purchasing your own personal MiFi to carrying all of Wikipedia with you. Paul Ferrill looks at some cool mobile gadgets for traveling Linux users."
WikiReader puts almost all of the English-language Wikipedia in a small, portable package that doesn't require (or have) any kind of internet connection.
Wikipedia Each week, we'll look at some reasons to taunt, belittle, and bully the Longhorns' football opponent. This week: the Nebraska Cornhuskers. We Used To Be Friends: You've never forgiven us for knocking you off your perch when the Big 12 Conference was formed by adding Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, and Baylor to your old Big Eight conference. Before then, Nebraska or Oklahoma won the Big ...
What's Your Reaction? It's only been a couple of days since Facebook revealed that it had topped 350 million users -- exceeding the population of the United States. But that wasn't the end of the shocking statistics about Facebook usage.
'' Spyro: Year of the Dragon '' is a platform game ...
