Post interesting, creepy or weird wikipedia articles here. Thy to give a bit of information about the article instead of just a link. Bonus points for whoever can find the most useless article. Here we go:
The Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion was a television signal hijacking in Chicago, Illinois, on the evening of November 22, 1987. It is an example of what is known in the television business as broadcast signal intrusion. The intruder was successful in interrupting two television stations within three hours. Neither the hijacker nor the accomplices have ever been found or identified.
Polybius is a supposed arcade game featured in an Internet urban legend. According to the story, the Tempest-style game was released to the public in 1981, and caused its players to go insane, causing them to suffer from intense stress, horrific nightmares, and even suicidal tendencies. A short time after its release, it supposedly disappeared without a trace.
Florida Snow You really wouldn't think it considering it's going to be about 33 celcius in two hours but it does happen from time to time. One of the two times I've seen snow in my life was December 23, 1989; I vividly remember being held and seeing little flurries in Tampa. Other time was in D.C. but that's not important, the important thing is snow is crazy rare and when it happens here everyone kinda looks at each other like the ground will burst open and we'll see hell frozen over.
The earliest commercially published upside-down map was McArthur's Universal Corrective Map Of The World, published by an Australian Stuart McArthur, in 1979, which sold 350,000 copies and is considered the original.
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Anyway thanks for the interesting pages you posted.
In November of 1983, a NATO military training exercise brought the world closer to a nuclear Armageddon, perhaps close even than the Cuban Missile Crisis
Hm, I can't think of any interesting/unique articles atm, but something cool in wikipedia:
Go to a random wikipedia article, and click on the first link that isn't in italics or parentheses. Keep doing this for every article you get to, and eventually you will land on Philosophy, or possibly science.
On June 08 2012 00:35 marttorn wrote: Hm, I can't think of any interesting/unique articles atm, but something cool in wikipedia:
Go to a random wikipedia article, and click on the first link that isn't in italics or parentheses. Keep doing this for every article you get to, and eventually you will land on Philosophy, or possibly science.
Myself and an old roommate of mine used to play Wikipedia Golf. You randomly pick 2 seemingly unrelated Wikipedia articles, and try to get from the first page to the second page in the shortest amount of clicks. Lower score wins.
I.E. Miley Cyrus and the U.S. Moon Landing.
How many related pages does it take to get from one to the other?
One of the things that will always stick in my mind thanks to Wikipedia is the Tsar Bomb. Some of the figures in relation to power and general statistics (the bomb breaking windows 900km away) are reaaaaaaaaaally impressive.
So the article posted in the OP about the wiki article max headroom and polybius, are they real? And if they aren't real, how much of the science wiki articles are real? Cause wiki is my go-to site for physics and chemistry research.
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