December 8, 2009

• The Best of Wikipedia

  Are you like me? Do you browse Wikipedia when you get really bored during the day? Have you stumbled across articles that you favor over others? I’ll admit, some of them are very poorly written, and that could be part of the reason why it’s my favorite, but some are just darn interesting! Here’s a list of my top 5:

  Hatfield-McCoy feud
  I’ve always heard about this family feud.  According to the article, the show “Family Feud” even did a reunion of the two families and had them duke it out to find out what the “survey says”.  But I never knew what they were fighting over.  After reading the article, I was elated to find out it was over something completely stupid…. a pig! (and some murders)

  Jheri Curl
  The quality of this article has improved vastly over the years.  It used to read like something off the back of a ghetto hair salons warning signs…. “Sunlight is deadly to your activator!”  But someone took it upon themselves to re-word the article and clean it up to meet “wiki standards”.  Too bad, I liked the older version a little bit better.  This is still, nonetheless, fairly interesting.

  People who have myseriously disappeared
  This article is slightly creepy, especially the more current the events.  I really was creeped out by Amy Lynn Bradley.  I’m going on a cruise in February for goodness sakes!  I probably shouldn’t be reading things like that…
  
  List of Twilight Zone episodes
  I never watched the show, but came obsessed with reading these short little descriptions of every show that ever aired.  It’s like the ultimate collection of short stories.  My recommendation – skip the opening narration, closing narration and preview for next week’s story.  The good stuff is in the plot summary.

  Eye Color
  Yes, I realize this one is completely out of the blue and perhaps even a little bit boring compared to the other articles on here, but I did find it interesting.  Not exactly sure why.

  

  Anyway, I hope you enjoyed my wiki recommendations.  Do you have any articles that you especially enjoy?

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