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DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 02:38:29 PM  
Cool beans.

 
Lionel Mandrake [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 03:14:20 PM  
Kickass link, subby.

Bookmarked the shiat out of that. Thanks!

 
Forty-Two [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 03:25:51 PM  
I'm so happy to see Emperor Norton on that list. +1

 
truth_is_stranger_than_fishin [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 03:31:36 PM  
The tybee bomb one made say out loud "Holy farking Christ!"

 
Rickerkioz [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 05:31:26 PM  
well that makes for an afternoon of interesting reading.

/The Able Archer Incident should be an addendum next to the Stanislav Petrov entry.

 
Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 05:33:31 PM  
From one of the articles:

Fan death is a South Korean urban legend which states that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can cause the death of those inside (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia). Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on.

...

I thank you for posting this link to Fark, subby.

In addition to enjoying some interesting Wikipedia articles, I took the time to stake my electric fan through the heart (just to be sure).

I owe you a cup of coffee, man. You saved my doggone life.

 
PseudoNic [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:17:04 PM  
Man, there needs to be at least one Han Solo mention on that list.

 
Impasse 2009-11-28 06:31:27 PM  
The 50 most interesting Wikipedia articles

Citation needed.

 
Bonanza Jellybean 2009-11-28 06:32:32 PM  
Something Awful did a great series of articles comparing the length of level-of-detail of real-world topics versus similar fictional characters and things:

Link

Link

Link

 
brap [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:32:58 PM  
Oh that stuff. I knew it.

 
mistrowl 2009-11-28 06:33:05 PM  
List needs Numbers Stations. (pops)

Cool find, thanks subby.

 
bravian 2009-11-28 06:33:46 PM  
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CornFedIowan 2009-11-28 06:33:50 PM  
"Back to the Future timeline" redirects to the main page about the trilogy, which doesn't contain any timeline. IIRC, it was deleted for being irrelevant, way too in-depth, or possibly both. (The terms are not mutually exclusive, especially in Wikipedia.)

As a roadgeek, I am pleasantly surprised to see "United States Numbered Highways" at #5.

 
mgshamster 2009-11-28 06:36:46 PM  
Forty-Two: I'm so happy to see Emperor Norton on that list. +1

All hail Emperor Norton. :)

 
howdyyall9999 2009-11-28 06:38:19 PM  
Well there goes my evening

 
waiting4godot 2009-11-28 06:41:39 PM  
No Oak Island or Coral Castle?

 
boristhebulletdodger 2009-11-28 06:41:47 PM  
Thank you popurls.com fark.com

 
paj 2009-11-28 06:41:48 PM  
List is useless without:
idology.files.wordpress.com

 
Galileo's Daughter 2009-11-28 06:42:43 PM  
Great find, subby.

 
triptik 2009-11-28 06:43:36 PM  
Yes!, I finally have good reason to hotlink this photo:
farm1.static.flickr.com

 
Januaryist 2009-11-28 06:44:28 PM  
From the Traumatic Insemination article: "...such coercive sex practices are common in nature and provide sperm competition, enable bypassing the mating plug, and overcome female resistance to being mated."

I've been doing it wrong all along.

 
DrMcNinja 2009-11-28 06:46:19 PM  
One of my favorites was this edit of Mike Tyson's wikipedia page Link (new window). Pay attention to "Early Years"

 
you are a puppet 2009-11-28 06:48:03 PM  
Can we do the 50 most interesting conservapedia articles?

http://conservapedia.com/Internet_parodist
http://conservapedia.com/Liberals_and_friendship
http://conservapedia.com/War_on_Christmas
http://conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder
http://conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama_and_uncharitableness

There's 5 good ones!

 
Kyro [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:48:54 PM  
Somebody better tell Cracked that somebody stole their business model.

 
Dafatone 2009-11-28 06:50:40 PM  
Two of my favorites are on here.

K Foundation Burn a Million Quid, and Fan Death.

A friend of mine lived in Korea for a year and went as Fan Death for Halloween. Good times.

 
Canadian Canuck [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:51:04 PM  
Great list. I've seen about 10 of them just randomly browsing through Wikipedia, but this is better then hitting random article.

 
JonnyBGoode 2009-11-28 06:51:09 PM  
mgshamster: Forty-Two: I'm so happy to see Emperor Norton on that list. +1

All hail Emperor Norton. :)


All hail Emperor Norton.

And Dr. Steel. (pops) ;)

 
Quantum Apostrophe [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:52:21 PM  
I love the deep borehole stuff. With all the nerd love for space, drilling into the planet is often over(under?)looked.

 
Cagey B [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 06:52:53 PM  
The "Green Man" one was pretty interesting, which led me to this one, which I really wish I had found before the Halloween scary story thread.

 
inkblot 2009-11-28 06:57:12 PM  
Forty-Two: I'm so happy to see Emperor Norton on that list. +1

www.harkavagrant.com

 
Galactic_Empanada 2009-11-28 06:57:52 PM  
That's awesome, thanks for the link subby.

This is also interesting.


Nix vs Hedden

 
UltimaCS 2009-11-28 06:58:22 PM  
FTA: War Plan Red

Heh. I honestly had no idea that Canada has Hitler to thank for not being permanently grafted onto our heads.

 
JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm 2009-11-28 07:00:19 PM  
I wish they had taken the extra time to make that into a slideshow, instead of a boring crowded list.

 
2chris2 2009-11-28 07:04:24 PM  
In order to save time, I would like to sum up the two major complaints which are likely to be posted about Wikipedia in this thread.

1. "Wikipedia sucks because THEY keep deleting all the good articles. I wrote an article about my favorite garage band/webcomic which has no fewer than 12 regular readers/meme which everyone on this one message board knows about, and it was deleted!"

2. "Wikipedia sucks because its standards are much too low. I keep seeing ridiculous articles about stupid shiat no one could ever possibly care about".

Note that 1 and 2 contradict each other, but that's ok, because they're generally never posted by the same person.

 
bravian 2009-11-28 07:06:03 PM  
you are a puppet: Can we do the 50 most interesting conservapedia articles?

http://conservapedia.com/Internet_parodist
http://conservapedia.com/Liberals_and_friendship
http://conservapedia.com/War_on_Christmas
http://conservapedia.com/Atheism_and_Mass_Murder
http://conservapedia.com/Barack_Obama_and_uncharitableness

There's 5 good ones!

In contrast, there are many instances of conservatives not requiring acceptance of conservative principles as a condition of friendship. For example, Ronald Reagan had many close personal friends who were liberals, and dozens of political ones, like Speaker Tip O'Neill and Senator Ted Kennedy. These liberals were friends with Reagan although they knew he was a conservative. On the other hand, there have also been a few cases of liberals not requiring acceptance of liberal principles as a condition of friendship. For example, Tip O'Neill and Senator Ted Kennedy were both friends of Ronald Reagan. Reagan was friends with these liberals although he knew they were liberals.


/oh. my. god.

 
brap [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 07:07:25 PM  
2chris2: In order to save time, I would like to sum up the two major complaints which are likely to be posted about Wikipedia in this thread.

1. "Wikipedia sucks because THEY keep deleting all the good articles. I wrote an article about my favorite garage band/webcomic which has no fewer than 12 regular readers/meme which everyone on this one message board knows about, and it was deleted!"

2. "Wikipedia sucks because its standards are much too low. I keep seeing ridiculous articles about stupid shiat no one could ever possibly care about".

Note that 1 and 2 contradict each other, but that's ok, because they're generally never posted by the same person.


Thanks for the heads up Nostradumbass.

 
Good Behavior Day 2009-11-28 07:08:29 PM  
Tybee and Palomares, but not Thule Air Base?

Also, I would like to add phreaking, the B-70 Valkyrie, and Captain Kittinger.

 
Fano 2009-11-28 07:10:00 PM  
Still can't be as big a time sucker as tvtropes.org

 
FishyFred [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 07:14:21 PM  

 
veryunoriginal [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 07:15:05 PM  
imgs.xkcd.com

Geez, thanks subby.

 
inkblot 2009-11-28 07:17:31 PM  
Fano: Still can't be as big a time sucker as tvtropes.org

img.slate.com

 
JonnyBGoode 2009-11-28 07:17:45 PM  
imgs.xkcd.com

 
JonnyBGoode 2009-11-28 07:18:30 PM  
14 seconds, inkblot!

 
mr_nakata 2009-11-28 07:19:19 PM  
Thanks, subby. Best thing on fark in a while.

 
Good Behavior Day 2009-11-28 07:21:04 PM  

 
flubber 2009-11-28 07:24:39 PM  
Here's my favorite:

List of unusual deaths (new window)

 
thatguyfred 2009-11-28 07:25:11 PM  
Seriously? This was stupid. I thought maybe there would be one interesting thing there. Clearly subby needs to get a brain. I've raped people for less than this. Maybe next time you'll try and think: WHAT DOES FRED FIND INTERESTIN!?!!? Well let me tell you. You better find something quick. Because right now I've got a bottle of lube and a barrel roll thats waiting to happen.

 
DamnYankees [TotalFark] 2009-11-28 07:26:48 PM  
Galactic_Empanada: That's awesome, thanks for the link subby.

This is also interesting.


Nix vs Hedden


That's not even the best one. This is the best:

Court rules that for the purposes of the law, a house was legally considered haunted. (new window)

 
Axe Wound 2009-11-28 07:28:03 PM  
I'm a big fan of reading Wikipedia articles about disasters and people dying in horrible ways while I'm procrastinating on papers. Here are some of my favorites:

The Dyatlov Pass Incident

The Byford Dolphin Explosive Decompression accident

The Nedelin Catastophe

The Tunguska Event

Not sure why so many of the cool horrible things happen in Russia. I liked the Year without a Summer article, got redirected there from volcanic eruptions.

Also love watching BLEVE videos on Youtube. I'm weird.

 
NASAM 2009-11-28 07:28:13 PM  
this is not a bookmark

 
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