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.
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.
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.
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, mind you) I know about thermodynamics so I have always blown it off as urban legend.
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 “shortest path” algorithm. It involves computing the Bacon number for all film actors who X has acted with. Notably Bacon is not the most linkable actor. That honor goes to Rod Steiger. The average Steiger number in the acting community is 2.679. By contrast, the average Bacon number is 2.946.
This week on Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a list of inventors who have been killed by inventions they either designed or were involved in.
This week on Wednesday’s Wonderful World of Wikipedia are Retronyms. Retronyms are are terms renamed after something similar but newer has come into being. Here is a list of them.
This week on Wednesdays Wonderful World of Wikipedia is a link to Mills End Park in Portland, Oregon. Mills End Park is a small park that was created on St. Patrick’s Day, 1948, to be a colony for leprechauns and a location for snail races. It is the smallest park in the world. Um, OK.
This week on Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia we have a look at a List Of Problems Solved By MacGyver.
This Wednesday’s Wonderful World Of Wikipedia brings us exploding whales. If your a “save the whales” type person, you may want to skip this one. Exploding whales have been documented on two notable occasions, as well as several lesser-known ones. The most famous explosion occurred in the United States at Florence, Oregon, in 1970, when a dead sperm whale (originally reported as a gray whale) was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. The other best-reported case of an exploding whale was in Taiwan in 2004, when a buildup of gas inside a decomposing sperm whale caused it to explode while it was being transported for a post-mortem examination.
