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Matt Clouser
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Posted: 2011 November 16 at 6:50am \| IP Logged \| 1

Got a chuckle out of this ...

http://xkcd.com/978/

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John Byrne
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Posted: 2012 September 16 at 9:06am \| IP Logged \| 2

Somewhere, Josef Goebbels is laughing is ass off.

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Morgan Talley
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Posted: 2012 October 21 at 2:20pm \| IP Logged \| 3

Not surprising, my school frowned upon information taken from Wikipedia. I myself only use it for tv/movie plots and info.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 2012 October 26 at 6:47am \| IP Logged \| 4

Not surprising, my school frowned upon information taken from Wikipedia. I myself only use it for tv/movie plots and info.

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Early on, I found I could not trust it even for that! I don't recall which film it was, but I remember reading a description and thinking "…that's not what happened. . . "

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DW Zomberg
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Posted: 2013 April 05 at 1:42pm \| IP Logged \| 5

Just took a look at the entry for Arthur C Clarke's novel 2001. The site notes that one nation launches nuclear weapons at another in the book's finale, when, in fact, the missles were launched at the Star Child.

Yeesh.

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John Byrne
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Posted: 2013 November 25 at 5:26am \| IP Logged \| 6

Recently I took a glance at the page allegedly presenting facts about me. Once again, most of the information is incorrect, sometimes subtly, sometimes wildly. Even things I corrected have been "edited" back to their former inaccuracies. (Someone, somewhere seems determined that my American citizenship will never be listed accurately, for instance.)

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Jon Levin
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Posted: 2016 August 03 at 8:09pm \| IP Logged \| 7

This is a terrific and gets the points across accurately.

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