FOB

My friend Ethan Ham just pointed out an interesting "art" project around Wikipedia. Really, it's more an argument for Wikipedia social change, as near as I can tell. Of course, as such it fits well with my own views from previous blog posts [1, 2, 3].

I hope this piece will make the Guardians of Wikipedia think, rather than just elicit a knee-jerk reaction. IMHO more of the thinking needs to be done.

(I left a note on the talk page of this Wikipedia article a few days ago, after a student told me that he knew that the not-equal operator ≠ is transitive because "Wikipedia says so." It's sad to me that this kind of content is allowed to sit there unmolested, while IMHO legitimate content is booted for spurious reasons.)

If you have the ability to get something published in print media, it would be great if you could write about this project. It would really help establish the "notability" and "reliability" of the project.

I've been a huge fan of The Onion, the satirical newspaper originally published by the University of Wisconsin, for about 15 years now. I've purchased their books and audiobooks, downloaded their videocasts to my TiVO, etc.

That ended tonight…

I haven't blogged for quite a long time now. I've been crazy busy. In particular, I've really let an old friend and client down by not finishing a report that was due one hell of a long time ago, and I sort of can't justify writing a lot here until that gets done.

So really, I'll only be posting here when it seems urgent, for a while longer. Once I catch stuff up again, I'll start posting more routinely again.

Wish me luck.

I don't normally comment on politics (or religion, or sex) here, since I don't want to pick gratuitous fights; this blog is supposed to be about the unique interests my friends and I share, not about the common and divisive stuff of everyday discourse.

I think that may be a bit of a mistake, though. Sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe in…

While I was working on catching up some stuff here at home this evening (Friday 7:30PM), I answered the phone. After a long silence, a woman informed me that her company was doing a political research survey and launched in…