Wikipedia

What is Morgellons Disease?

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The scientific community is very divided on the subject, some saying that it is a affabulation, others that it is a benign disease: the controversy rages as highlighted in Wikipedia. This epidemic seems somewhat more serious and hard to heal. So much so that a foundation was born recently in the USA to know the [...]

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The five best anti-SOPA protests

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It’s INTERNETAGEDDON! (Google.com) Or, at the least, it’s the day of the SOPA protests. As an example of political mobilization —and a new form of political mobilization at that — the anti-SOPA campaign is likely to enter the organizing textbooks. Saul Alinsky could never have seen this coming. As an example of the power and [...]

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Popular Websites Stage Protests Against Anti-Piracy Bills

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The Internet is conducting a protest of sorts today in opposition to two pieces of anti-piracy legislation making their way through Congress. Wikipedia, one of the most popular sites on the World Wide Web, is the titular ringleader of the online demonstration, shutting down access to its countless encyclopedia-like entries for 24 hours to raise [...]

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El Pasoans React to SOPA Blackout

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By Staff Wednesday, January 18, 2012 – 5:08pm EL PASO – While you were surfing the web today you may have noticed that you couldn't access certain websites or that some of your favorite were censored. Two anti-piracy bills could change the way we use the internet forever and they're causing a ruckus on and [...]

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Wikipedia – A Quick-Reference, Online Encyclopedia

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The Internet can feel like a seemingly endless black hole of information. Thankfully Google and other search engines make information more accessible and findable, but you still have to carefully discriminate fact from almost-fact and fiction. For many topics, Google search engine result pages include links to Wikipedia. It sounds credible enough-almost like an encyclopedia-but [...]

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The 9 Highest-Grossing Movies Of All Time (Written Without Help From Wikipedia)

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As you probably know by now, Wikipedia has gone dark today in order to protest SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Like thousands of other journalists, Screen Junkies writers use Wikipedia not as a final source in our research, but as a jumping-off point, with its claims noted, but always, always, verified using more reputable [...]

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What If Google and Wikipedia Disappeared Forever?

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As most know Wikipedia went dark on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 in protest of the SOPA bill, and for them with a small staff, they certainly have a point, as their business model could be targeted and shut down. There is no way they could hire enough people to ensure everything posted was original, every [...]

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Will your website go dark to protest SOPA?

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Jan. 18, 2012 is designated SOPA blackout day, with prominent websites planning to go dark in protest of two bills working through Congress — Stop Online Piracy Act and PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). If you've got a big school project due Thursday and plan on using Wikipedia, get your research done today. The community-based encyclopedia [...]

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Twitter will not join Jan. 18 SOPA/PIPA blackout — good!

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Twitter's Dick Costolo says the micro-blogging platform will not join in the January 18 blackout protest against the "Stop Online Piracy Act" (SOPA) and the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA). Activists were outraged, but they should be counting their lucky stars. An increasing number of popular websites will go "black" tomorrow, in protest of the "Stop [...]

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Wikipedia calls for web blackout

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The founder of Wikipedia is leading calls for search engines and social media sites including Google, Facebook and Twitter to take themselves offline for an entire day in protest against a controversial bill winding its way through the US Senate that could have profound implications for the internet. Jimmy Wales has called for a "public [...]

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Hanukkah at Whole Foods: Now with matzoh!

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UPDATED: 12:40 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20. On Saturday, I headed to Whole Foods in Foggy Bottom, where buying more than a dozen items may very well bankrupt my family. But that sketchy Safeway under the Watergate is closed so, you know, desperate times. I see Whole Foods has a Hanukkah display. A whole display for [...]