Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wikipedia. Show all posts

Wednesday, 25 August 2010

Uncyclopedia- Everything that Wikipedia used to be

when searching for orange's Awesomasaurus ad campaign (which i still cannot find a picture of) i came accross Uncyclopedia, filling the gap that the new, moderated wikipedia has left (see Last post), its just full of nonsense, and occasionly some whitty well written entry turns up
''Given the controversial nature of Awesomesaurus, the genus has often been overlooked in the mainstream. Many Anning followers felt vindicated, however, when Michael Crichton included a pointed reference to Awesomesaurus in Jurassic Park.


“If we hatch an Awesomesaurus, how the hell will we feed it? Impossible. We'd need the whole rest of the island, every day of the week.”
~ Dr. Ian Malcolm (character from Jurrasic Park) on Awesomesaurus''
i checked the chicken article as well because i hoped that  Ryan north's legacy still existed... some of the best stuff i found was ii HERE

''What happened to the chicken since it was a T-Rex? In direct rebuke of the chicken's royal and reptilian aspirations, modern chicken have been so modified that now they do not so much resemble the Rex as they do the common garden slug, itself a sad parody of the more graceful snail. The science of eugenics, pioneered by evil men like Charles Darwin, Colonel C. H. Sanders, and Adolph Hitler, led to the manipulation of the chicken's once terrifying genes, twisting and changing them into something base and disgusting''

Although i see the need for a boring informative thing such as wikipedia... i still love this  :D
yeah a Nazi T-REX

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

Reasons not to reference Wikipedia in Essays

'Don't ever reference Wikipedia' our lecturers have always said 'it's not a reliable source'
and like fools drunk on the power of knowledge and giddy like we had been drinking snakebite till 3 in the morning, we ignored them, instead using the references at the bottom of the page to skate past the issue of filling up a bibliography.
All students use wikipedia, whether they reference it or not, because it is God's middle name, it holds the power of the world, and the name just flows off the toungue, rolling about in its own reverency and facts. Students will proclain 'its not nearly as bad as it used to be since all the moderators came and ruined the fun', Granted there are no crazy rants about pokemon games inciting animal fighting within the prepubecent communities, and the article on 'Chickens' is simply about chickens not about dragons, stories about cats or turnips (Ryan North we sallute you ) And This Is Why,
but i found this gem...
I love them for their honesty and shere awesomeness, 3 misguided points for them, whoever they are :D 

For those of you who don't know it refers to animals that give birth to live young  through the retention of eggs, think of a chicken laying an egg, sucking it back in and keeping it safe untill the chicks are about to hatch, Eagle rays (and loads of other fish and cockroaches do this ;)

Source Wikipedia