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Everyone who has heard, seen or read the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy remembers the eponymous Guide, a source of vast and questionable knowledge, which bailed out or confused the travelers, time and again. You don't have to travel to Ursa Minor Beta in order to score an analog, either. If you own an Android device, preferably a tablet, getting your book ready only requires three apps and approximately 2.5 to 7 GB of free space on your device or SD card.
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Across all forms of fictional media, there are certain similarities and archetypes that pop up time and time again. The damsel in distress. The flawed anti-hero. The wise old mentor. The pervasive evil mob of doom. And in my study of fiction, I’ve come across a wonderful site that documents all of the instances of these storytelling tropes.
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Have you ever jumped on the wiki of your favorite show or book series, and then fell into a content-saturated time warp? You know what I’m talking about – something like that classic TVTropes black-hole. What I like about wikis is that they may fill in gaps that viewers or readers may have missed along the way – names that have been forgotten, back stories, and even critical plot elements.
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Are you a fan of the unknown? Do you tend to investigate strange encounters that have unexplainable results? In that case, the SCP Foundation may be perfect for you. It's a site the crosses Kolchak: The Night Stalker with the Men In Black. A place where reality and the ethereal meet. Right along the lines of Creepypasta, the SCP Foundation is a wiki featuring articles about strange, unusual, and seemingly supernatural entities.
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At first, the releases coming out of Wikileaks were shocking and exciting. They brought us news of civilian casualties in Iraq, and they brought us embarrassing diplomatic cables. Here let's take a little stroll down memory lane and examine some of the silliest WikiLeaks bans that took place throughout 2009 and 2010.
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In my spare time, I read a lot of wikis (I really need a more interesting life). Typically, what happens is that I'll hear of a subject, find a wiki that covers that subject, and then I'll end up reading the entire collection of articles for a long time. Granted, I'm sure that at least some of you do it too, so I thought I'd share some sci-fi wikis with you.
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Our story starts with something called TiddlyWiki. In a nutshell, TiddlyWiki is a single-file wiki, which makes heavy use of JavaScript. You can download it to your own computer, Dropbox or USB stick, and use it to maintain notes about anything. That’s lovely, but it’s not exactly a website in the common sense of the word. In sweeps Osmosoft.
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These days, there are a lot of businesses, both online and offline, that make use of wiki platforms to help generate teamwork and collaboration, while remaining at remote locations. With Tiki Wiki, you can host it on your own web server so that you can decide exactly how it looks and functions, and at the same time you can access your Wiki from anywhere in the world.
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OpenLeaks, an alternative to WikiLeaks, which is a site that publishes submissions of private, secret, and classified media from anonymous news sources and news leaks, has officially gone live. WikiLeaks, as you may know, fell under harsh criticism and faced a lot of pressure from various governments and organizations because of material “leaked” via the [...]
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If you’ve used the Internet, you’ve used Wikipedia. Its articles are highly ranked for pretty much every Google search term in the universe, and there’s a reason for that: useful, accurate information that’s always up to date. But Wikipedia’s not the only project brought to us by Wikimedia. A number of ongoing experiments are offered [...]
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“A wiki is a website that allows the creation and editing of any number of interlinked web pages via a web browser using a simplified markup language or a WYSIWYG text editor.” That’s the definition provided by Wikipedia, the most popular wiki on the Internet. Wikis serve as collaborative sites and can be very useful [...]
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Those of us who spend a lot of time online have a slightly different vocabulary than the rest of the world. We use words like blog, webinar, and meme on a daily basis (and actually know what they mean). There is no need to use a standard dictionary because a lot of the definitions we’re [...]
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This article covers several useful and powerful Wikipedia search engines. Put in a search with a keyword into a regular search engine and there’s a high chance a reference from Wikipedia will pop up at the head of the results. Wikipedia has become a virtual “˜Encyclopedia Britannica’ for a lot of us. I would rate [...]
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Anyone who’s used Wikipedia already knows what a wiki is: a series of user-created pages that link to each other heavily. Wikipedia being among the largest collaborative projects on the face of the planet, it’s not hard to see how wikis can be used to get things done. What you’ve perhaps never considered is how [...]
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To write a successful research paper, you should provide thorough information and tie it together into a conclusive story. While obtaining conclusive information tends to be rather difficult in itself, writing a convincing manuscript appears to be an even bigger hurdle. So what is the problem? It seems that many authors don’t realize that a [...]
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