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Wikipedia minutia: Optical disc packaging

July 24, 2010
By Observ3

Poking around online to see if anyone has posted pictures of an idea I have (converting a nice old book into a storage folder for burned DVDs) I stumbled Wikipedia’s article on optical disc packaging. Yes. An entire article devoted to nothing but analysis and description of CD cases. And it’s a pretty long...
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Observ3d 001

November 8, 2009
By Observ3
Observ3d 001

Related article... My first entry into a (hopefully long running) set of webcomics I am working on. Family and friends have been telling me for years that I should do this… so here we go Transcript admin ranting: “And what’s with all these kids citing Wikipedia?!!! You shouldn’t even let them look at that...
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now who’s editing?

September 23, 2009
By Observ3

Found myself visiting the Encyclopedia Britannica today and I saw an interesting thing: a link to “suggest edit”s to the page. Turns out that the ivory tower of traditional encyclopedias is starting to feel some heat from the masses. Sure, I could go over to Wikipedia right now, erase the entire “Earth” article and...
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