Would Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales have done this for Fox News or the Washington Times? And if he had/has, wouldn’t the New York Times editorial page blast him for colluding to suppress information from the public? For seven months, The New York Times managed to keep out of the news the fact that one of […]

Web slime.

Who’s vandalizing Wikipedia?

Brian Turner is a part time professor at a Bay Area college and a published poet. He’s also a soldier. Words written by the light of a red-tinted flashlight offer a poet’s-eye view of American soldiers’ life in Iraq: the fear, the loss, the heartache, the uncertainty and the rare moments of calm and beauty […]

Comparing notes with Blackfive today, it appears we’ve both been infected with the same “sock puppet” troll. So, as a public service to bloggers and bulletin board moderators everywhere, I’m publishing the details on the troll I call “Punk.” IP addresses: 68.33.185.185 — Rockville MD (work?) 66.160.120.185 — Washington DC (home?) 68.62.72.192 — Auburn Hills […]

Hi, I’m Ben, a 25-year-old white guy from rural Virginia. I used to be a directory assistance operator, but now I work at the Wal Mart in Waynesboro. I still live with my parents. Sometimes, I like to go to the big city and play in the streets. My favorite game is to dress up […]

Via the BBC: Internet site Wikipedia has been hit by controversy after the disclosure that a prominent editor had assumed a false identity complete with fake PhD. The editor, known as Essjay, had described himself as a professor of religion at a private university. But he was in fact Ryan Jordan, 24, a college student […]

Under no circumstances should anybody even imagine, even for a nanosecond entertain the notion, that this post is by our dearest Michelle (who is either in Iraq or in next-door Okinawa, as I understand it, but I’ve never been either place, so what do I know?) Rather, this post is by Dafydd of Big Lizards […]

A broken window is seen behind the emblem of the U.S. Embassy in Athens, Greece. (AP)No injuries, thank God, and minor damage. The blast smashed glass in the front of the building near the U.S. emblem of the embassy. Police did not report any injuries and embassy officials could not immediately be reached for comment. […]

Leni Riefenstahl’s 1935 film “Triumph des Willens” (Triumph of the Will) went a long way toward making the Nazis look cool, or at least, rather less like a bunch of pasty sausage-gobbling dorkozoids. Now, consider this “promotional” film for the radical Muslim group Hizb-ut-Tahrir (more about them here and here). Although they take themselves every […]