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Borges and the Wikipedia

In the process¹ of writing a post on the shortcomings of temporality, I got distracted by wriiting a post on how Wikipedia does its thing. I'll post that shortly, but until then, I'd like to simply present you with a slightly Borgesian found poem:

This page has a lot of red links

1. List² of Baronies
2. List of garden plants
3. List of aircraft
4. List of candidates in the 2004 Canadian election
5. List of Amiga games
6. List of television stations in USA by Call Sign
7. List of firearms
8. List of lunar craters
9. List of Australian musicians
10. Olympic medalists in athletics (men)
11. List of military aircraft
12. List of Ohio townships
13. TLAs from YAA to ZZZ
14. List of volcanoes
15. List of LSTs
16. List of United States Navy aircraft squadrons
17. List of craters on Mars
18. List of asteroids (3001-4000)
19. List of gay erotic actors

¹ Yes, I've been blogging up a storm. The major feeling from finishing a dissertation is that of getting a weight off your shoulders, and after that little while of staying hunched--"but I need to, it's HEAVY"!--the first thing you do is to stand up, and discover that you CAN. And so my brain is now back to firing on all--well, make that most--cylinders, and the world is a substantially better place, and a lot of stuff that's been building up is now coming out.

Enjoy it while it lasts--I don't my blogging to steadily decrease over the next two months as I go from FOOCamp to Washington DC to Copenhagen to Madrid to Tanzania.

² Oddly, virtually every one of these violate #13 on the list of What Wikipedia is Not.