The Cult of the Amateur

[SoMissTV]

Incidentally, this is why HA shouldn't cite wikipedia as a source:

“What defines the best minds,” Keen argues, “is their ability to go beyond the ‘wisdom’ of the crowd and mainstream opinion.” Wikipedia is premised on a contrary theory of truth that would have seemed familiar to George Orwell: if the crowd says that two plus two equals five, then two plus two really does equal five.


More Here
(http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/personal_tech/article1874668.ece)

[bpitt]

B.S. ain't it.

[58ford]

Wheeeeeeeeeee.........

[dream member]

haha, wikipedia is a joke!

[58ford]

I know folks that play a game of going into Wikipedia & changing facts for fun & see how long it takes for the facts to get changed back .

[wilebill]

I know a guy from this very board who went to Wikipedia and listed himself as a famous person from Webster county in N MS.

[bpitt]

I know a guy from this very board who went to Wikipedia and listed himself as a famous person from Webster county in N MS.
Now that's funny!

[wilebill]

Now that's funny!It would have been if he'd meant it as a joke, but he was serious.

[TheKing]

lawlz

[Pirate_129]

As my hero Forest Gump would say, "Stupid is as stupid does.":smt118

[Fish-Bait]

So how many licks does it really take to get to the center of a tootsie-pop? between 100 and 5800 (depending on the coarsness of the tongue)

whatever.

[jburg]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lawlz

Now.

[dream member]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lawlz

Now.


I sure didn't know that that meant...and my MO says I am not going to research it...thanks for posting the link for me! :)