The umlaut gazes also

[avram]

Ah, Wikipedia! Sure, the stuffy old guard may doubt your accuracy (though the Encyclopædia Britannica might not be any better), but how many encyclopedias have not just an entry on the umlaut, but a separate entry on the use of the umlaut in heavy metal rock band names? (“At one Mötley Crüe performance in Germany, the entire audience started chanting, ‘Moertley Crueh!’”)

Tip: Wikipedia’s search function is kinda slow. I just do a Google search, adding in “wikipedia” as a search term.

Comments

[ckd]

Check out heavy metal umlaut: the motion picture. (Via Ongoing.)

[akirlu.livejournal.com]

In a strange bit of synchronicity, or perhaps not, Mike Godwin has been addressing some criticisms of Wikipedia (http://www.godwinslaw.org/weblog/archive/2005/01/21/picky-about-wikipedia) in his weblog.

[sdelmonte]

Well, how accurate could anything be if they let me contribute? :)

[holyoutlaw.livejournal.com]

Thanks for these links. I've been looking things up in wikipedia for my Philosophy class. I take the course of one of the respondents to the Corante posting: If I find something interesting, I find it in a more traditional source. This is only fact checking, after all.

Although as I use wikipedia more, I'm more tempted to participate in it.