What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thursday, January 27, 2005
great articles
First of all, let me say that I love Wikipedia. It's an open-source encyclopedia, with each entry filled with deep links and fully editable by the reader. (If this seems strange, read this article by the co-founder concerning reliability issues.) As opposed to traditional encyclopedias, wikipedia entries are quite in-depth, and provide an inexhaustible fund of collateral sources. Anyway, this is a great page of unusual articles that have appeared, from this one about a French entertainer who could break wind at will, to this one about Moresnet, a small country bewteen Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that disappeared in 1919. Check 'em out.