the Vicissitudes of Wikipedia - links

How (much) to trust Wikipedia - lecture by Luca de Alfaro

Cyber Civil Rights discussion thread on Wikipedia Review

New blog Akahele about the trustworthiness of online information generally - the opposite of Wiki

Professor Wikipedia

Wikipedia:Flagged Revisions - ideas designed to ameliorate instant editing

The tolerance of plagiarism

Criticism of Wikipedia

PARC's WikiDashboard

Wikipedia's external peer review

Gary Weiss and his cavalcade of socks

torchwood wins battle :)

This shows the surface tension of a paperclip floating on water.

new doctor on tonight (christmas)

New Dr Who David Tennant will watch his timelord debut after tucking into Christmas dinner with his parents, if he can escape his busy schedule. The actor, who has already revealed he would like to do a second series, hopes to fly to Scotland to spend the day with his parents at their home in Paisley. He will appear on screen alongside Billie Piper in the first episode of the latest BBC series at 7pm. His former church minister father said the whole family will be tuning in after their turkey, hopefully with the 10th timelord himself.

The Very Reverend Sandy McDonald, 67, told the Scottish Press Association: 'We will certainly be watching it and all being well David will be with us. But he's got a very busy schedule and there's still a question mark over whether he'll make it. We are looking forward to seeing the show, all our kids have grown up watching Dr Who.' Mr McDonald, a former moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, said he and wife Helen will be joined by David's sister but his other son would be staying at his home south of the border.

Bill Gates

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Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, throws a Windows 1.0 floppy disk in his office soon after the product's release. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA

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Stream flowing into Llyn Mair at the Ffestiniog Railway stop Tan-y-Bwlch 

The Blind Harpist's hearth. This is in Bleinau Ffestiniog which we visited last year. The picture was under-exposed, but Picasa brought it up almost like new. There are still a couple of bugs in Picasa which need squashing, but it's cool, like the Blind Harpist was