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04 February 2006

Name your most recent Wikipedia search. →[More:]Cloacal exstrophy. Make of it what you will.

post by: rebirtha at: 10:01 | 17 comments

Last night my wife and I were scratching our heads over which European countries still have figurehead monarchs. So my last searches have been things like Belgium, Finland, etc.

I also searched for Wallace Stegner yesterday.

posted by selfnoise 04 February | 10:41

Two yesterday: Mix tapes, of course, and then in the evening I went in search of some decent information on defamation, libel, and slander. That article sucked, by the way.

I love the wikipedia. As long as you go in with a huge grain of salt, you can get an excellent basic sense of most information. And some of it approaches true greatness (like the mixtape page).

posted by Miko 04 February | 11:10

Just now: anhedonia.

posted by cmonkey 04 February | 11:30

Josephine Maximillian-Carter.

posted by flopsy 04 February | 12:18

Jan Fabre - I wanted to learn more about how he uses insects as an element in art.

posted by madamjujujive 04 February | 12:26

Prog Rock, and before that Japanese Baseball

posted by pieisexactlythree 04 February | 12:40

Bettany Hughes.

Your inferences are probably correct.

posted by George_Spiggott 04 February | 12:56

Chris Penn, to see if there were any updates on cause of death.

posted by 6550 04 February | 12:56

That Trademark Dilution Revision Act that amberglow posted yesterday. And found nothing. Nothing until I got back to trademark dilution.

Oh, so I guess that was my last, last search.

posted by fenriq 04 February | 13:03

Good lord, I now have a new celebrity crush on Bettany Hughes.

posted by cmonkey 04 February | 13:10

Schottische

posted by unknowncommand 04 February | 13:47

Sturgeon's Law - "90 percent of everything is crap!"

Not to be confused with Stevo's Law, which is "90 percent of what you're feeling is crap."

posted by Lipstick Thespian 04 February | 14:07

My friends and I tried to name all 9 Supreme Court Justices. We forgot about Stevens.

posted by muddgirl 04 February | 14:41

Mew (band) (playing in Cambridge tonight).

posted by grouse 04 February | 14:59

Ex Machina (comic) I wanted to see if they had an issue list so I can collect the ones that aren't in trade paperbacks yet.

posted by kosher_jenny 04 February | 16:35

King Arthur (and I went on to the other people involved with the legend).

posted by deborah 04 February | 19:39

I use Wikipedia half-a-dozen times a day, and edit it almost daily, but I rarely actually use the search. Sometimes I search in my address bar, but lots of times I just type out an article name I expect to be there. Most of the time, it is.

posted by stilicho 05 February | 01:38

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