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November 19, 2006
Weeki
With the wiki a little over a week old, here are some things you might have missed:
Mr. Billings can trace his roots back to a roman landowner.
Lubos Bartecko can trace his roots back to a roman slave.
Mr. Spivey invented the Internet.
And Carabao looks like a mighty fine drink.
Thanks to those who have contributed so far... let's keep it going. Only a little over a million more articles to catch up to Wikipedia.
November 17, 2006
PS3! PS3! PS3!
PS3 campers get shot with BB gun.
Homeless hired to stand in PS3 line.
Dentist hires 60 people to stand in PS3 line.
Escaped rape suspect busted in PS3 line.
Pregnant woman tries not to give birth in PS3 line.
Man lands in hospital with broken jaw after PS3 rush.
One shut during PS3 line robbery in Connecticut.
Wal*Mart accuses volunteer of Senator Edwards of trying to cut in line for PS3.
Stay tuned for the PS4 release in 2015:
Doctors operate on man in line for PS4 after appendix bursts, refuses to leave.
Man skips last and only chance at Bar exam to get into PS4 line.
Elephant tramples man after he stands his ground in PS4 line.
Axe-wielding man kills three in PS4 line, told to go to end.
Jesus returns to earth, gets in PS4 line. Gets boo'd for trying to cut.
PS4 line merges with second PS4 line, destroys San Francisco.
PS4 comes to life, kills eight in line. Rest of line disables PS4, regains line order.
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I think I'll take a Wii.
November 09, 2006
What is a wiki?
According to some website,
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.
Wikipedia may be the most famous example of a wiki. The theory being, the combined knowledge of a mass user base allows for a very powerful tool for creating a deep database of information compared to a small group of writers and editors ever could.
This is where you come in as a small group of writers and editors.
With much help from SysAdminOpComputerGuru Mark, we now have the Waste of a Perfectly Good Wiki.
My goal is to have a little bit of help from everyone reading this very sentence. We'll start focusing around creating a knowledge-base for the Billings and Spivey Universe, but if you want to go off in your own tangent and see what other people have to offer, go nuts.
The wiki interface is really easy to use... and those who know it better can help keep it clean. Or making it more ugly. I don't care. It's really up to you guys what to do.
How about starting by adding to Mister Billing's biography? I mean, you do know where he went to school, right? Because I don't.
If you want to explore, you can look at a random page. Or create your own....
November 08, 2006
Bring 'em on
I feel a disturbance in the force...
A force I haven't felt since..... him.
After waking up a pleasant surprise with the election results, we're treated to dessert: Rumsfeld is stepping down. He did such a bang-up job, too!
Only candy raining from the sky could make today complete... and my cousin Chris points out it is forecasted for later on today (60% chance of nougat).
Can we just start compiling a list of cool stuff that happened today? How about that the Macbook now has the Intel Core 2 Duo chip in it?
But enough dancing around here. Maybe my X-Files-and-Mythbusters-addicted brother Jon will post about it in his new blog - everyone rush over and check it out.
November 07, 2006
I just want my stapler
There's just something about Office Space that makes people want to recut it as a thriller.
But they didn't make me laugh as hard as this "Telemarketer Nightmare" clip.
Guess The Artist: Elephant, preschooler, or Famous Artist?