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Top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia and Conservapedia: "[UPDATE: The Conservapedia Top 10 list is probably the result of click bots skewing the results. See Seth Finkelstein's blog entry and the comments below.]

Wikipedia is 'The Free Encyclopedia.' What's on the mind of Wikipedia its readers? Here are the top ten most viewed pages on Wikipedia:

1. Main Page [30,090,900]
   
2. Wiki [904,800]
   
3. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows [413,400]
   
4. Naruto [401,400]
   
5. Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock [396,000]
   
6. United States [330,000]
   
7. Wikipedia [329,400]
   
8. Deaths in 2007 [321,300]
   
9. Heroes (TV series) [307,500]
   
10. Transformers (film) [303,600]
    

Conservapedia is 'The Trustworthy Encyclopedia.' What's on the mind of its readers? Here are the top ten most viewed pages on Conservapedia:

1. Main Page‎ [1,906,729]
   
2. Homosexuality‎ [1,572,713]
   
3. Homosexuality and Hepatitis‎ [517,086]
   
4. Homosexuality and Promiscuity‎ [420,687]
   
5. Gay Bowel Syndrome‎ [389,052]
   
6. Homosexuality and Parasites‎ [388,123]
   
7. Homosexuality and Domestic Violence‎ [365,888]
   
8. Homosexuality and Gonorrhea‎ [331,553]
   
9. Homosexuality and Mental Health‎ [291,179]
   
10. Homosexuality and Syphilis‎ [265,322
    

(Via Why, That's Delightful!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Star Trek's cheesy creatures: "


The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series has just come been released in a combo box set including HD DVDs and standard DVDs. To celebrate, Wired News put together a package showcasing the '10 Cheesiest Classic Creatures' that caused Spock and Kirk a variety of headaches. Seen here, the beautiful beastie of 'A Private Little War.'



Link to Wired, Link to buy Star Trek: The Original Series (HD/DVD)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Engraved Victorian tentacle-horrors from Dan Hillier: "

Dan Hillier's Cthuloid drawings sport engraved Victorian gentlemen and ladies who are magically twisting into tentacled horrors. I just bought this one from the artist himself at a market stall in London's Brick Lane, and it's proudly hanging on my wall. I'm restraining myself (just barely) from buying more.

Link

Can't see the video? Click here

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(Via Boing Boing.)

The 50 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Has Ever Said

The 50 Dumbest Things George W. Bush Has Ever Said: "The tragicomic presidency of George W. Bush, in his own words"

(Via Digg.)

More engraved Zunes

More engraved Zunes: "Much love to all who sent in samples, and to Iulia and Natasha in Krasnodar for downloading and uploading and whatever. Peace.
By Anonymous

By David

By Jason

By John

Decoder:

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(Via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.)

A Foggy Reunion With Horror’s Master

my must see movie - always loved this novelette

A Foggy Reunion With Horror’s Master: "Stephen King’s work is once again drawn on by Frank Darabont for ‘The Mist,’ but this time he goes for old-school scary."

(Via NYT > Movie Reviews.)

So big deal, you can get your Zune engraved

heh heh

So big deal, you can get your Zune engraved: "Honestly, some of the stuff they dream up at the Borg just kills me. Like the new Zunes have this feature where you can get the back of your Zune engraved with artsy weirdo designs. Now someone has sponsored an art show in Seattle devoted to the designs. Funny thing that out of all the crazy designs you can get they're not offering the one that makes most sense, which would be an engraving of a drooling idiot with the words, 'IT'S OFFICIAL, I'M A FRIGTARD' underneath. Anyhoo, nice try, Zune team. Keep working on it.

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(Via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.)

12 Things I Learned from TV Court Shows

12 Things I Learned from TV Court Shows: "To learn about the insidiousness of human nature, just watch the plethora of reality TV court shows over-populating TV. There's Judge Judy, People's Court, Divorce Court, Judge Alex, and Judge Joe Brown and more. These shows will IN FACT teach you to save money and offer realistic solutions to common court problems if you actually listen to the judges. Here are the twelve lessons I have learned."

(Via Kuro5hin.org.)

Steampunk iPod skin

Steampunk iPod skin: "


This steampunk iPod skin achieves a nice little trompe l'oeil effect of a cutaway window exposing the massive, bulky gears of your little MP3 player.

Link

'Pon my honour, that is a majestic collection of previous steampunk linques

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Cremation ashes at Disneyland -- a dusty epidemic

hoo hah

Cremation ashes at Disneyland -- a dusty epidemic: "There's an epidemic of covert (human) ash-scattering at Disneyland, a practice that has spread from the Haunted Mansion to the Pirates of the Caribbean. The scatterers generally get away clean, and the human remains are subsequently cleaned away by special janitors who are charged with keeping the Park in compliance with health rules about containing particulate matter.

Just this past Friday a Cast Member watching the security cameras noticed a woman in the back of a boat throwing a powdery substance into the lavishly decorated sets in the cavern scenes near the beginning of the ride. Even though Pirates is a 15 minute long ride, by the time the lady spreading the substance returned to the loading area Security had yet to arrive.

The college age Cast Members operating the attraction knew that legally they were not supposed to detain anyone, and when they confronted her about what she was doing in the cameras she told them she was only throwing baby powder around. The woman quickly disappeared out the exit, never to be seen again, but she'd actually left more than baby powder all over the Pirates of the Caribbean.

Security and the police finally arrived, and the ride was shut down on a busy afternoon of a holiday weekend. The ash was identified by the Anaheim Police as cremated remains, and the custodial department found most of it all over the 'Captain's Quarters' scene in the caverns. The woman had done a very thorough job of spreading the ash everywhere though, and after an hour of cleaning with the HEPA vacuums there was still work to be done.

Link

(Thanks, Al!)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

39 never reprinted Kirby monster comics

39 never reprinted Kirby monster comics: "The mayor of Mt. Holly, MN, has some exciting news to report: rare Jack Kirby stories have been unearthed and made available!

For those uninitiated, Jack Kirby was a legend in the comic book genre. He's responsible for creating many big name superheros.

His brain also birthed a slew of monster comics that bent readers imaginations and furthered the plight of the everyman, in a fashion only found elsewhere in the episodes of Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. Here, on Monster Blog, for the first time reprinted anywhere are 39 gems of Kirby magic.

Link

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Demented Barbie in Carbonite sculpture

Demented Barbie in Carbonite sculpture: "

Etsy seller Stray's 'Barbie Trapped in Carbonite' sculpture is perfectly demented and just the thing for transitioning the kids from unrealistic Dream House play to unrealistic space-empire play.

Link

(via IZ Reloaded)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Horror podcast for Memorial Day: Pseudopod's "The Western Front"

Horror podcast for Memorial Day: Pseudopod's "The Western Front": "This week's short story on the horror podcast Pseudopod is The Western Front, by Patrick Samphire, and it's something you should really download and give a listen to. This is Pseudopod's Memorial Day story, and, accordingly, it's set in the muddy, bleak, hopeless trenches of WWI, told in a series of letters and diary entries by a fresh, idealistic British lieutenant. The lieutenant's journey from idealism to disillusionment is standard enough, but I did not expect the redemption he finds in the story's brilliant conclusion. Samphire has written a genuinely fresh and moving account of war, and it's haunting without descending into the merely graphic or grotesque.

Link, Link to podcast feed

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Rune Olsen's twisting sculptures

Rune Olsen's twisting sculptures: "


I'm pretty taken with the sculptural work of Rune Olsen, which revels in a kind of twisting, arching form that lodges somewhere between titillating and disgusting.

Link

(via JWZ)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Fun Rube Goldberg style promo website

Fun Rube Goldberg style promo website: "When I visited this site (for Dutch retail chain Hema) at the recommendation of Boing Boing reader Hens, I wondered why he thought it was so cool. But after about five seconds the site came to life and presented fun Rube Goldberg style performance. Bravo! Link

Can't see the video? Click here

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Ape Lad's pirate hobo zombie chimp T-shirt -- $10

Ape Lad's pirate hobo zombie chimp T-shirt -- $10: "

Did you buy your Ape Lad T-shirt depicting a happy pirate hobo zombie chimp yet? It's only $10 including shipping. Link

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(Via Boing Boing.)