Get Your Wikipedia Fix
50 interesting Wikipedia links. I haven't read them all, but each one I've looked at has been interesting. So maybe bookmark this link for when you're bored or run out of internets.
Here's the first 15:
1. Anthropodermic bibliopegy
2. Elm Farm Ollie
3. EURion constellation
4. (the) Demon core
5. Pole of inaccessibility
6. Globster
7. Hoba meteorite
8. Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
9. GRB 971214
10. “Resolute” desk
11. Candace Newmaker
12. Cryptomnesia
13. Hans Island
14. Harrowing of Hell
15. Semantic satiation
Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else.[1] In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.
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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
Ooh. I just read that the other day!
(Also, LAistas, if you didn't get a Save the Date and are remotely interested in attending, we would love to have you! Email me your snail mail addy. I tried to contact a couple of you and didn't hear back, so I wanted to cover my bases here.)
I wonder if someone had done an Un-Registry website/service for wedding couples who feel like they have to register to please the relatives. It could have links to stuff like Heifer.Org and Kiva.org and other alternate charity stuff that the couple approve of, and let givers print out customized PDF certificates to put in an envelope to present at the ceremony, et cetera....
Theo, our first registry link is to the I Do Foundation, which is a charity site in lieu of gift registry. Check it out on our site--it's pretty cool! It made me all weepy to write up the reasons why we chose our two charities (American Cancer Society and Donors Choose), and I'm really glad we were able to add that option.
well damn. the dresser got delivered, but one drawer is still not fixed. He's gonna have to come pick it up again. I guess I won't be putting clothes away after all.
Timelies all!
Am posting from the lobby of the Darkover hotel.(Wi-Fi is free in the lobby)
By the way, would a few of you do a quick proof of the site to see if anything jumps out as confusing?
There should be live links for "LA Party/Location Info", "Northeast Celebration", "Blog", and "Registry" in the body of the page, not just along the top.
Excellent suggestion Tom, thanks. I've updated it and changed the page names to match the labels on the home page. I also just added a lot of detail on the LA page about hotel options since we have a fair number of people coming from out of town. Would someone mind checking the links for me? My brain is getting fuzzy.
ETA: Okay, going to stop usurping the thread for website craziness now. Thank you, everyone! Taking link down now.
I always wanted to be Dorothy, but I think it is my destiny to be Rose.
Heh. I always wanted to be Blanche, but I think it is my destiny to be Dorothy.
John Belushi wasn't Armenian, he was Albanian
Yeah, if he'd been Armenian it would have been John Belushian.
