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It's been done already, though I rarely check it: http://uncyclopedia.org/ . There's probably others as well.

I still like snopes for urban legends, but other than the occasional hoax, vandalism, and interested party injected misinformation. The wikipedia is where I like to pull info from for my own use, and it does a great job for that. Of course it should still be disallowed for true academic and scientific uses, based on the aforementioned issues.

Hey - it worked really well for Uncyclopedia. It should work for college. Not like anyone would put stuff on the internet that wasn't true. I mean, The Onion is my major source for news....

I agree. Every tech news website that I've visited is flooded with articles about the iPad. I do not care about the iPad and am already rather tired of the spam. The only saving grace here is that other news is still flowing (hur hur, iPad, flowing, I'm so clever).

Of course, we all know wikipedia sucks. The real thing is Uncyclopedia.

You must be talking about Uncyclopedia.

You need a Certificate of Hitlertude.

As Oscar Wilde once said:

"Whoever uses Wikipedia as a source without checking the references, might as well trust the Irish"

I know that quote is false, because it's not on Uncyclopedia.

Actually it is not Fascist but Communist, Ultra-Left-Wing tactics as outlined here by me and many others to show how Liberals like Neocons can be dictators, just Communists instead of Fascists. Liberal Fascism is the nickname for Communism and Anarchism mixed together. Those people are not even real Liberals but Neo-Liberals. Keynesian economics was loosely based on Marxism, don't you know?

Right now, Haliburton runs the USA, Dick Cheney's company, George W. Bush is his puppet and does not own Haliburton stock. But since Haliburtion gets all of the rights to Iraq's and Afghanistan's oil, it caused other oil companies to profit as well as the price of oil is rigged by speculators and oil companies and OPEC manipulated by Haliburton.

Nobody rapes me, if they try they get broken bones and bruises, I am a Space Pirate Ninja and know several forms of martial arts and am a sharpshooter with guns as well.

I am a Moderate Libertarian like most of the people in the USA, you Liberals and Neocons are in the minority.

Yeah there are a few decent liberals who aren't like I describe. They are "Classic Liberals" and more to the center than the far left. The Liberals in change of the Democratic Party, Hollywood, RIAA, MPAA, Recording Studios, Newspapers, Blogs (Moveone.org) are Ultra-Left-Wing Liberals that are more like Communists or Anarchists protending to be Liberals or Neo-Liberals.

I and others wrote about them here, and I apologize to the real Liberals who are not like the fake Liberals.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

1. Wikipedia's incomplete. For instance, nothing whatever about Kitten Huffing
2. They're inaccurate. For instance, Wikipedia's entry on black holeslacks Jack Thompson's observation that "They suck more than I do", God's observation that "Black holes are simply where I decided to divide by zero", Steven hawking's observation that "Originally, Black Holes were known as 'Gravitationally Collapsed Stars" and Oscar Wilde's observation that "I'm going to stick something in there and see what happens".
3. Your mom likes uncyclopedia... when she's not flat on her back
4. better writing
5. No trolls
6. Wikipedia doesn't quote Oscar Wilde, unless of course you look up Oscar Wilde.

YOUR DESK, Your office (Work) -- The chances of you finishing writing this article without getting interrupted or distracted are slim.

U.S. office workers get interrupted on the job as often as eleven times per hour, costing as much as $588 billion in paid time lost to open content production each year. The digital communications that were supposed to make working lives run smoothly -- cc'ed email jokes, Internet porn and chatting up that hottie in the next office by IM -- are actually preventing people from getting critical tasks like writing Uncyclopedia or Wikipedia accomplished.

The typical office worker is interrupted every three minutes by a phone call, e-mail, instant message or other distraction. These take up 2.1 hours of the average day -- 28 percent -- with workers taking an average of five minutes to recover from each interruption and return to their original gag-writing or witty picture editing, or querulous talk page arguments and arbitration cases about the correct format for subheadings on articles about disused former US highways. The problem is that it takes about eight uninterrupted minutes for our brains to get into a really creative state.

From online shopping at work to planning the office holiday party, workers are bombarded with distractions. "It's certainly a recipe for even less writing getting done," said a typically bone-idle and parasitical Uncyclopedia timewaster. "It's 'There's my BlackBerry. What time is it in Kittenhoeffer right now? How many phone calls did I get? Can I win the sales office spider solitaire competition?' It's a lot of productive timewasting turned to useless 'productivity.' People like the convenience and possibilities that this technology affords them when they want to use it, but that doesn't increase the average quality of Wikipedia or pump up the funneh on Uncyc!"

Still another study found a group of workers interrupted by e-mail and telephones scored lower on an IQ test than a test group that had smoked marijuana. Unfortunately, EPA regulations still forbid bong hits at one's desk, even when trying to fix one's makefile.

There is a mini rebellion under way, however. Desperate for some quiet time to think, people are coming up with low-tech strategies to get away from all their technology. "If you don't have that sort of free time to dream and muse and mull, then you are not being creative, by definition. I find hiding in the server room with my laptop is a good place to work on witty tales of Britney Spears flashing her lunch at paparazzi."

The problem appears to be getting worse. A study by Wikia earlier this year found that 62 percent of British Uncyclopedians are addicted to their e-mail -- checking messages during meetings, after working hours and on vacation, hoping to get their funny take onto UnNews first.

"If I wanted to work," said the user, "hell. I'd get a job."

(original link)

I live in Illinois, where Uncyclopedia says "There are two seasons: 'Blizzard, and Tornado'. Also synonymous with 'Winter and Construction' in the North."

There was a week in March 2006 that we had rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, and tornados all in the same week!

It gets down below -23 C in the winter and over 38 C in the summer here. I envy you your mild rainy climate!

Not to mention this.

Since we all know that BSD is dying... does that uptime indicate a large number of zombie processes?

sorry.... ;)

You forgot to provide a link

"Back of the line." ~ Oscar Wilde on your mom

Your Mom, Born approx. 30 years before you were (15 for trailer trash), is a well known parent and parental figure, celebrated for her dedication to keeping you out of R-rated movies, calling just to "check up on you", and whoring herself on the streets like a Taiwanese prostitute. Despite a "lack of credibility" most likely caused by said sluttery, your mom is always there to do your laundry, include love as an ingredient in her recipe, or crush you with her massive gravitational pull.

Bah, wikipedia. I prefer the more accurate uncyclopedia. Here is the perfect "number".

here is a picture of a perfect number. It is also the picture of an album cover, and all the tunes inside it are also perfect nimbers.

Many people think that this is the perfect number.

"I am not a perfect number, I am a FREE MAN!" - the Prisoner

Bah, wikipedia. I prefer the more accurate uncyclopedia. Here is the perfect "number".

here is a picture of a perfect number. It is also the picture of an album cover, and all the tunes inside it are also perfect nimbers.

Many people think that this is the perfect number.

"I am not a perfect number, I am a FREE MAN!" - the Prisoner

Did you really mean to link to an *unclyclopedia* article on Benjamin Franklin?

That link was the first result when I googled "benjamin franklin" torture, there are more than 200,000 other results. Not all of the others on the first page of results are appropriate, such as the second one which is Turkeys: Factory-Farmed Torture. Two others are from PETA, and are also about turkey factory farming. I did include 3 other links I got from other searches I did, one a personal letter one of the Founding Father wrote.

Falcon

That would be the Factory Standard GPS Voice (Female).

Did you really mean to link to an *unclyclopedia* article on Benjamin Franklin? I hope you weren't mistaking it for a serious source anyway (although the narrowboat article is quite entertaining).

Wikipedia is bigger than anyone dreamed ...

They're seeing competition from Microsoft according to MS's fans in the press. The market considers the Zune material for comedy. I was joking when I mentioned the possibility of a Zune phone ...

Microsoft's problem is that Apple is clearly much better at evil these days than they are. Microsoft used to have the best and most popular evil; these days they can't even successfully pay people to use their evil. And they've been trying for a while.

To keep on-topic, Android's main function will be to lift the iPhone's game. Existing and not sucking will be a win for Android and Google. Then, as others have noted, someone will come up with a killer Android app that leaves Apple playing catchup as they've pissed off too many developers. Interesting times and a win for credible competition. Which Microsoft just isn't in this space.

In today's terms, the founding fathers are nothing more than terrorist-loving war criminals.

Benjamin Franklin was almost tortured. James Madison opposed judicially sanctioned impalements and being drawn and quartered in public squares. His "cruel and unusual punishment" is embodied in the Constitution's 8th amendment: Cruel and Unusual Punishment. George Washington captured more than a thousand Hessian mercenaries at the battle of Trenton on Dec. 25, 1776 and ordered his troops to treat them with "respect and dignity and they will suffer no abuse or torture". Chairman of the Board of War and Ordinance John Adams wrote in a letter to Abigail Adams on 27 April 1777 of a "strong a light as the barbarity and impiety of Briton, in this persecuting war." The USA's Founding Fathers knew of torture and opposed it. It's such a shame the Bush admin has gone out of it's way to justify torture.

Wow. Somebody forgot his Haldol!

Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking

And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!

No go away or I shall taunt you again.

Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking

And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!

No go away or I shall taunt you again.

Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking

And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!

No go away or I shall taunt you again.

Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking

And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!

No go away or I shall taunt you again.

Dude, that's so lame. For jokes about black holes, look no farther than the uncyclopedia.
Black hole
Event Horizon
Albert Einstein
Stephen Hawking

And of course we can't forget YOUR MOM!

No go away or I shall taunt you again.

What the hell is someone who hasn't heard of Wikipedia doing on slashdot?

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (pronounced /jækvk/; born October 23, 1959) is a Grammy Award winning American singer, musician, actor, satirist, parodist, songwriter, music producer, accordionist, and television producer. Yankovic is known in particular for his humorous songs that make light of popular culture and that often parody specific songs by contemporary musical acts. Yankovic received his first accordion lesson a day before his seventh birthday. Since his first-aired song parody in 1979, he has sold more than 12 million albums - more than any other comedy act in history -[1] recorded more than 150 parody and original songs,[2][3][4] and has performed more than 1,000 live shows.[5] His works have earned him three Grammy Awards among nine nominations, four gold records, and six platinum records in the United States. Yankovic's first top ten Billboard album and single were both released in 2006, nearly three decades into his career.

What rock have you been living under for the last thirty years? Many of his his songs are decidedly nerdy, which is why it's news for nerds, stuff that matters.

And if you mistrust Wikipedia because of its alleged wrongness, the uncyclopedia has an entry on him too.

"Dirty Deeds Done With Sheep..how did he know?" ~ Oscar Wilde on Weird Al Yankovic

"I'm just too White and Nerdy" ~ Weird Al on Himself

Weird Al Yankovic, AKA Accordion Jesus, or better known by his pseudonym "Alfred Matthew" Yankovic, was born in Siberia from a hole in the snow. He later became famous after Vladimir Putin listened to "Let's Bomb Iraq" and promoted him to Entertainer In Chief of the KGB at the tender age of 8. Yankovic later moved to America, following an invitation by Richard Nixon for tea, and a nice little record party. The Russians misinterpreted this act as treason, and Yankovic currently lives in exile as a wanted criminal of the Putin regime. If you have any information concerning Yankovic, please contact your local Russian consulate immediately. He is the son of King Alfred Yankovic VI.

Yes, it's all explained here.

Slashdot has a mostly male audience, but its denizens have aproximately the same ratio of gays to straights as non-nerd sites.

A server is a computer that serves web pages to your computer. A Troll is someone who "posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]"

In other words, you and yo' momma.

Now go away or I shall taunt you again, fool.

Slashdot has a mostly male audience, but its denizens have aproximately the same ratio of gays to straights as non-nerd sites.

A server is a computer that serves web pages to your computer. A Troll is someone who "posts controversial and irrelevant or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum or chat room, with the intention of provoking other users into an emotional response[1] or to generally disrupt normal on-topic discussion.[2]"

In other words, you and yo' momma.

Now go away or I shall taunt you again, fool.

Thank you Captain Obvious, what would we programmers do without you? :)

They are my programming habits, not his, so I wrote what I knew not what he knows.

Did you know that you are ugly and your mom dresses you funny?

Does Your Mom know that you post with such language using her Windows 95 Packard Bell PC and AOL Dial-up?

Sony would NEVER do anything like that!

Next you'll be telling me banks are acting irresponsibly and the government doesn't act in my interest!

Sony would NEVER do anything like that!

Next you'll be telling me banks are acting irresponsibly and the government doesn't act in my interest!

Liberal nazis who censor things by deleting them. Deleted Wikipedia articles usually end up on Uncyclopedia and get made into funny articles that are more factual than the articles on Wikipedia that are not deleted. No offense to modern liberals or classic liberals who are nothing like liberal nazis. Barack Obama is a John F. Kennedy modern liberal and not at all like the liberal nazis that hacked Sarah Palin's email, or liberal nazis on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Moveon.org, or blogs that do personal attacks and political smears. Not all liberals are nazis, but some if not all of the admins on Wikipedia appear to be. Uncyclopedia is liberal nazi free, just modern liberals, classic liberals, anarchists, communists, libertarians, moderates, conservatives, neocons, independents, and others who join together to write funny, but not stupid, articles. Liberal nazis usually get banned at Uncyclopedia, or we make funny articles about them instead if they keep coming back with web proxies.

At least they aren't Conservapedia the Conservative Wiki that only Neocons can edit.

Read Wikitruth for the reasons why many of us don't want to use Wikipedia anymore. Even a humor Wiki like Uncyclopedia is managed way better than Wikipedia ever will be, and we are all volunteers who do work for free.

The Uncyclopedia article was deleted and put back many times as well on Wikipedia. Apparently Jimbo and the sockpuppet Admins think we aren't notable enough to have an article on us.

Liberal nazis who censor things by deleting them. Deleted Wikipedia articles usually end up on Uncyclopedia and get made into funny articles that are more factual than the articles on Wikipedia that are not deleted. No offense to modern liberals or classic liberals who are nothing like liberal nazis. Barack Obama is a John F. Kennedy modern liberal and not at all like the liberal nazis that hacked Sarah Palin's email, or liberal nazis on MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Moveon.org, or blogs that do personal attacks and political smears. Not all liberals are nazis, but some if not all of the admins on Wikipedia appear to be. Uncyclopedia is liberal nazi free, just modern liberals, classic liberals, anarchists, communists, libertarians, moderates, conservatives, neocons, independents, and others who join together to write funny, but not stupid, articles. Liberal nazis usually get banned at Uncyclopedia, or we make funny articles about them instead if they keep coming back with web proxies.

At least they aren't Conservapedia the Conservative Wiki that only Neocons can edit.

Read Wikitruth for the reasons why many of us don't want to use Wikipedia anymore. Even a humor Wiki like Uncyclopedia is managed way better than Wikipedia ever will be, and we are all volunteers who do work for free.

The Uncyclopedia article was deleted and put back many times as well on Wikipedia. Apparently Jimbo and the sockpuppet Admins think we aren't notable enough to have an article on us.

lets add a fifth category. failure to differentiate between copywrite and copyright. I suggest reading this article.

Who is the paranoid fringer joke now?

Pot meet kettle, kettle meet pot!

Seems more like an exploration of this.

You forgot to link the uncyclopedia article on Thompson. Somebody may have been living under a rock and not heard of him.

because as you know both Bill Gates and Donald Trump used to play Monopoly a lot, and it taught them how to do business.

George W. Bush used to play a lot of Risk, Advanced Squad Leader, and Stratego games to help him figure out his foreign policies.

Linus Torvalds used to play a lot of Life and Scrabble which taught him sharing and unscrambling things to make them into something useful like Open Source Software.

Steve Jobs played Candy Land and Go, and got ideas from them how to make the Macintosh with eye candy and making it easy to use like Candy Land but complex like Go.