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July 2, 2006

My Wikipedia contrail [Uncategorized] — Administrator @ 10:00 am

Start of a new fad?

My Wikipedia Contrail from YEAH WAY
I was inspired by a couple other sites to post my Wikipedia contrail. Basically, these are the urls that autocomplete when I type ‘en.wikipedia.org/wiki’ into my browser.

 

My Wikipedia contrail from interconnected
My Wikipedia contrail (context visible when you mouse-over the links to get the title):


My Wikipedia Contrail (after Webb)… from Back to plasticbag.org home
Following on from Mr Webb’s experiment, here are the pages on Wikipedia that autocomplete when I type in en.wikipedia.org/wiki into my browser, complete with a brief bit of context:


Here’s mine: 
  • OpenSearch is a collection of technologies that allow publishing of search results in a format suitable for syndication and aggregation.
  • Rest has several meanings.
  • Penny Lane (song) - Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name
  • Clear Spot is the seventh album by Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band, originally released in 1972.
  • Image:Clear Spot.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • "Every time you masturbate… God kills a kitten" is the headline of an image created in 2002. The image is of a kitten being chased by two Domo-kun, and has the tagline "Please, think of the kittens".
  • Image:God-kills-kitten.jpg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  • Progressive rock (sometimes shortened to prog rock or prog) is a subgenre of rock music which arose in the late 1960s,
  • AJAX, shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a Web development technique for creating interactive web applications.
  • Acronyms and initialisms are abbreviations pronounced on the basis of this abbreviated written form.
  • The fullerenes are a recently-discovered family of carbon allotropes sometimes called buckyballs.
  • Benito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini (July 29, 1883 – April 28, 1945) was the fascist dictator of Italy from the year 1922 to his overthrow in 1943.
  • Dale Dougherty is one of the co-founders (with Tim O’Reilly) of O’Reilly Media
  • Daniel Dale Johnston (b. January 22, 1961 in Sacramento, California) is a prolific American singer, songwriter and artist. Johnston, who suffers from bipolar disorder[1] and often writes surreal songs about his hallucinations and mood swings
  • Data clustering is a common technique for statistical data analysis, which is used in many fields, including machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image analysis and bioinformatics.
  • A "folksonomy" is a collaboratively generated, open-ended labeling system that enables Internet users to categorize content
  • Goatse.cx (AKA fickstighter)(variably pronounced "goat see", "goat seh", "goats", "goatsex", "goat say", "goat see dot cx", or "goats dot cx", and often truncated to goatse) is one of the most infamous Internet shock sites and well-known Internet memes. Its front page contained a sexually explicit and extremely graphic picture, hello.jpg, featuring a man wearing a gold ring on his left hand with no visible clothing (although his entire body is not visible) manually stretching his anus and rectum to a diameter roughly equal to the width of his hand
  • Gary Burghoff (born May 24, 1943 in Bristol, Connecticut) is the actor who played the character Corporal Walter "Radar" O’Reilly in both the film and television series M*A*S*H.
  • A laser turntable is a phonograph that plays gramophone records using a laser beam as the pickup, rather than a stylus
  • An MP3 blog is a type of weblog in which the creator makes music files, normally in the MP3 format, available for download.
  • Windows PowerShell, previously Microsoft Shell or MSH (codenamed Monad) is a command line interface (CLI) shell and scripting language product being developed by Microsoft.
  • Meatspace is synonymous with the physical world and conceived as the opposite of cyberspace or virtual reality.
  • Quaero (I seek in Latin) is the name given to the project of a European Internet search engine
  • Representational State Transfer (REST) is a software architectural style for distributed hypermedia systems like the world wide web.
  • Trout Mask Replica is a 1969 double album by Captain Beefheart (real name: Don van Vliet) and His Magic Band.
  • Snakes on a Plane  is an action/horror film scheduled to be released by New Line Cinema on August 18, 2006. The David R. Ellis-helmed film was written by David Dalessandro, John Heffernan, Sheldon Turner and stars Samuel L. Jackson.
  • Swag (disambiguation) - Multiple definitions for the term
  • Template talk:Infobox Top level domain - A Wikipedia standard for displaying top level domains.
  • Sir Timothy "Tim" John Berners-Lee, KBE, FRS (TimBL or TBL) (born June 8, 1955 in London) is the inventor of the World Wide Web
  • V for Vendetta is a 2006 action-thriller film set in London in a not-too-distant future
  • Wikipedia:List of infoboxes/Technology - A Wikipedia markup standard for infoboxes.
  • The term Web 2.0 refers to a second generation of services available on the World Wide Web that lets people collaborate and share information online.
  • The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages
  • XMLHttpRequest is an API that can be used by JavaScript, JScript, VBScript and other web browser scripting languages to transfer and manipulate XML data to and from a web server using HTTP, establishing an independent connection channel between a web page’s Client-Side and Server-Side.
Something for someone to do: a browser tool to build this automatically!

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