Tag Archives: WWWow

In The Year Aught Eight

By hubs | Published: January 16, 2008
The year 2008: Past, present and future.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia: Interrobang

By hubs | Published: January 2, 2008
I’m hoping that in 2008 I’ll be able to improve my grammar, spelling and writing style. It is with this in mind, that I make the first Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia a link to the Interrobang.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Robot Dance

By hubs | Published: December 26, 2007
Just a quick Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia. Today we find out about the Robot Dance. Bonus: James Brown teaches you to dance.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Christmas Worldwide

By hubs | Published: December 19, 2007
The Christmas edition of Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia consists of a fun and educational page about Christmas celebrations and traditions in countries around the world. The article focuses on non-western countries and has lots of cool insights.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Negative Calorie Foods

By hubs | Published: December 12, 2007
Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia for this week is a link to a list of foods that have negative calories. Although no foods actually contain negative calories, this list contains foods that require more energy to break down than is released from the chemical digestion of that foodstuff, resulting in a net loss of energy [...]
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Contagious Shooting

By hubs | Published: December 5, 2007
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia brings us the sad results of mass reflexive response. Mass reflexive response, also known as “contagious shooting“, is gunfire that spreads among officers who believe that they, or their colleagues, are facing a perceived threat.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: List Of Foods Named After People

By hubs | Published: November 28, 2007
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a list of foods named after people. I was surprised at how many there were. I was also surprised at how many of them I’ve tried.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Architecture In New York City

By hubs | Published: November 21, 2007
Since today I’m in the Big Apple, this Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a wealth of knowledge about the buildings and architecture of New York City.
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Libration

By hubs | Published: November 14, 2007
Today on Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is the concept ofLibration. In astronomy libration (from the Latin verb libro -are “to balance, to sway”, cf. libra “scales”) refers to the various orbital conditions which make it possible to see more than 50% of the moon’s surface over time, even though the front of the Moon [...]
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Free Bird

By hubs | Published: November 7, 2007
Free Bird and everthing you never wanted to know about it is the Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia link for this week.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Living Dead

By hubs | Published: October 31, 2007
On this special Halloween edition of Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia, I link to the living dead. This article is of particular intrest because of the discussion around the differences between the zombies in Romero’s Dead Series movies versus Russo’s Living Dead Series movies.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Pompatus

By hubs | Published: October 24, 2007
Some people call me the space cowboy. Yeah! Some call me the gangster of love. Some people call me Maurice, ‘Cause I speak of the pompatus of love. And as a result, I now have this movie on my netflix list. More of Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Fictional Doctors

By hubs | Published: October 17, 2007
This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is simply a list of fictional doctors from literature, movies, and television. Mind you, it’s a very long list.
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: The Mpemba Effect

By hubs | Published: October 10, 2007
This time around on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia, I present to you the Mpemba Effect. I been told many times that the Mpemba Effect actually existed. However, nobody was ever able to give me the name of it, they just told me that it was true. It goes against everything (which is very little, [...]
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Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia: Bacon Number

By hubs | Published: October 3, 2007
This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is Bacon Number. The Bacon number of an actor or actress is the number of degrees of separation they have from actor Kevin Bacon, as defined by the game known as Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. The computation of a Bacon number N for X is a [...]
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