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EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists

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EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

sites linking to that image

i cna't read this but that's ok
http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%99%D0%B8%D1%84%D1%84

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

oh, i see.

quote:

First a word “of [yiff]” began to use the English-language worshippers of [furri] in the online role games MUCK (in particular, FurryMUCK). Word arose as imitation to the sounds, published by foxes in the period of marriage games. In its English writing (yiff) the word is similar to the onomatopoeic Scottish verb of yaff, which indicates to bark, to [povizgivat].

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

just don't click anything on ru.wikipedia and you'll probably be f
:nws::nms:http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Martin_Van_Maele_-_La_Grande_Danse_macabre_des_vifs_-_25.jpg

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Only registered members can see post attachments!

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

RZApublican posted:


gay libertarian atheist men's rights activist furry that also somehow supports universal health care

bear doesnt mean furry in the internet sense but in the literal
he is fat and gay and is happy to be fatgay

and hairy

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005


every hour a tightass sperg spends arguing for this to be removed is an hour that quality articles remain intact

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Sniep posted:

you suck at making links

you suck at spotting links

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

BillWh0re posted:

p sure this has already been posted but im posting it anyway :nws: http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Sex_drawings_by_User:Seedfeeder :nws:

Hidden categories: Images that should use vector graphics

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Badjpeg.jpg This image was (or all images in this article or category were) uploaded in the JPEG format.
However, it contains information that could be stored more efficiently or more accurately in the PNG format or SVG format. If possible, please upload a PNG or SVG version of this image without compression artifacts, derived from a non-JPEG source or with existing artifacts removed.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Using PNG violates WP:NOR: In 2007, some people were actually converting hundreds of JPEG or GIF files into the cumbersome, gargantuan PNG format, totally unaware that Wiki-software optimized resizing of GIF files (3x faster) or JPEG files (as 8x to 21x faster) than the massive data transfer of PNG files. Because articles about "PNG" clearly explain PNG format is often 10x heavier for minimal extra sharpness, the activity of converting to PNG files goes counter to existing research, and converting to PNG files violates the Wiki "No-Original-Research" policy.
:supaburn:

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

MindSet posted:

boyo that text sure is sharp!

well it is, kinda. grab a normal image and run a sharpen filter like 50 times. now it looks like a jpeg

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

won't be surprised if this is the biggest list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_manga

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Name of Base 26

According to what makes sense to me, the most logical term for base 26 is sexvigesimal, a term combining sex-, the Latin numerical prefix for 6, with vigesimal. However, someone created an article for base 26 called hexavigesimal, which mixes a Greek numerical prefix with a Latin root. Any opinions?? 66.245.3.166 02:29, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

The reason I used the term hexavigesimal is that it seemed to follow logically from the term hexadecimal and hexavigesimal returned a result from Google, while sexvigesimal did not.


26 - square/cube

Do we have a proof that 26 is the only number between a square and a cube? i believe there is a proof due to euler but can;t find it.

I found some proof here: http://abstractnonsense.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/algebraic-number-theory/195.113.21.210 (talk) 18:56, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
A more rigorous proof is here: http://blog.cr0.org/2009/04/26.html --Roentgenium111 (talk) 11:51, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Boo-yah

Does anyone know why on this game show I'm watching, people shout "BOO-YAH!" when #26 is selected. Is this a pop culture thing that should perhaps be included?
I removed the links to Wikiproject Kabbalah...

...and Wikiproject Judaism because the article contains a single line of trivia about the relevance of 26 to Judaism. I hope this won't bother anyone. Shalom Hello 01:57, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005


it's missing the engineer's EMP from TFC

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Starbucks' melusine

I have corrected the former confusing text about the "siren" in the Starbucks logo, which elicited a query at my Talkpage. It now reads as follows:

Though technically the heraldic charge employed as Starbucks' logo is a melusine displayed, crowned or, in 2006, Valerie O'Neil, a Starbucks spokeswoman, said that the logo is an image of a "twin-tailed siren",[1] the sirens of Greek mythology having developed aquatic characteristics during the Middle Ages, and cognates of siren have come to denote mermaids in several European languages. The image was more correctly identified as a melusine by Ann Rippin the following year.[2]

Notes

1. ^ "The Insider: Principal roasts Starbucks over steamy retro logo". Seattle Post-Intelligencer. September 11, 2006. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/284533_theinsider11.html. Retrieved May 23, 2007.
2. ^ Rippin, Ann (2007). "Space, place and the colonies: re-reading the Starbucks' story". Critical perspectives on international business (Emerald Group Publishing) 3 (2): 136-149. ISSN 1742-2043. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/ViewContentServlet?Filename=Published/EmeraldFullTextArticle/Articles/2900030202.html.

We have an editor who, without actually knowing anything about sirens, mermaids or melusines, just prefers the confusing version. I think we needn't be bullied about this: "if Starbucks call it a siren, we call it a siren" etc etc. Wikipedia is a readers' service. Intentionally retaining misleading text is a disservice. I struggle every day with scribblers and others who undermine Wikipedia's credibility, so perhaps I am intolerant. The text above is fully supported by references, here and at Siren, Mermaid and Melusine. I am willing to provide additional references for any statement. --Wetman (talk) 07:21, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

My argument that we "call it a siren because Starbucks calls it a siren" is neither bullying nor misleading. I've always said that we have to call it a siren in the absence of any sources identifying it as anything else. I'd probably edit your addition to remove the stuff about the heraldic charge (since that's not supported by a source), but leave in the bit about it's being a melusine, assuming that final source is useful in that regard (haven't had a chance to read it yet). Esrever (klaT) 11:36, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Actually, as I look at it, I'd probably cut almost all of that stuff, since it has nothing to do with Starbucks and is a relatively minor point about the logo.

In 2006, Valerie O'Neil, a Starbucks spokeswoman said that the logo is an image of a "twin-tailed siren".[1] The image was more correctly identified as a melusine by Ann Rippin the following year.[2]

And as I re-read that, I notice that it seems to sound an awful lot like what's already in the article, so I'd probably have reverted you, too. Esrever (klaT) 11:39, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

"The image was more correctly identified as a melusine by Ann Rippin the following year". Total opinion. Also, Wetman, mind your insults. I bloody well do know what a melusine is, and a siren, and a mermaid, but I also know what WP:ORIGINAL RESEARCH is, and I know that Wikipedia is verifiable and not WP:THETRUTH. So before you start characterising other editors as "scribblers", perhaps you should get off your high horse and stick to using reliable sources. The version as it stood was entirely factual and based on sources, and was not at all confusing. It might not satisfy your insistence that the logo really is of a melusine, but that's Wikipedia for you. You'll notice above that I've sourced the book the woodcut was copied from, but without a reliable source telling us that it's original research. Fences&Windows 03:35, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
As for confusing, this wording is far too complex for a reader who wants to know about the logo of a coffee company: "Though technically the heraldic charge employed as Starbucks' logo is a melusine displayed, crowned or...". "Heraldic charge"? "displayed, crowned or"? "Employed as"? We're writing a general encyclopedia here; give the poor reader a chance. None of that information is relevant. The current text includes the magic word "melusine", which I added a couple of months ago after sourcing that article by Ann Rippin. Fences&Windows 03:48, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Has someone any info about the new starbucks in Tiranne?Villick (talk) 14:08, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

just lollin at this redirect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19100

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

has this been posted yet?
if not, for shame
(think it has but gently caress checking)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

dont edit quotes?

what am squarebrackets then?

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i liked his fish av
also lol?

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

facial hair is gross but i think there are a few styles that don't look bad depending on the face
none of these faces are on goon bodies

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

List-Of-Cats-Who-Starred-As-Extras-In-Movies

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Nevergirls posted:

Postman Pat supremacy

and his black and white cat

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

amazing observational skills. :)

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Aleksei Vasiliev posted:

loving sexists

i cannot believe i just used the pronoun 'xe' but it's wiki "corrections" so i dont have too much to worry

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

WrongWay Feldman posted:

:nws: http://imgur.com/ZH4ES :nws:

:nws:http://i.imgur.com/GlZ9n.png:nws:

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Nevergirls posted:

touche

:nws: http://i.imgur.com/xRYFj.png :nws:

:nws: http://i.imgur.com/vQM2w.png :nws:

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

that awful man posted:

YOSPOS DRINKING GAME

take a drink every time:




alcohol industry posts record profits
thousands of dead goon permabans in the space of 3 days

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

getaway
from the everyday

with a tiny lovely version of everything you got away to get away from

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005



On the road again -
Just can't wait to get on the road again.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005



i'm sure this involved putting his fleshlight on a high shelf.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

maniacdevnull posted:

acme sells everything but coyote food, hth

they probably sell that too except you open the tin and it's actually a silly snake spring joke

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

mean ol prof getting you down about verifiability? vandals keeping you from getting those grades, fear not, intrepid student, hand-picked and groomed wikipedia articles are available to you, some as recent as 2009. What are you waitiing for, the library to open?

http://schools-wikipedia.org/

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

This selection is a part of a larger collection at Wikipedia, which we commend especially for older children.

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Gold's first published story was "The Prisoner's Release" in the magazine Heat, an adult publication by Sofawolf Press. Gold went on to write novels, starting with Volle, which became the first part of his Argaea fantasy series. Volle won Gold his first Ursa Major Award in 2005 for "Best Anthropomorphic Novel".[7] In 2006, his sequel — Pendant of Fortune — won the 2006 Ursa Major Award in the same category.[notes 1] Fred Patten reviewed the pair, calling them "arguably the best anthropomorphic novels yet written".[8] He also won that year's "Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction" for his short story Jacks to Open, published by Fur Rag.[9]

Gold won his fourth Ursa Major with Don't Blink (published in Heat), which was voted "Best Anthropomorphic Short Fiction" for 2007.[10] He again won both the "Novel" and "Short Fiction" categories for 2008 with Waterways and In Between respectively.[11] Gold won the same prizes again in the 2009 awards with Out of Position and Drifting.[5]

In 2010, Gold was nominated for WSFA Small Press Award for short fiction with his story Race to the Moon.[6]

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

i remember the tick

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

Kirk posted:

this is actually kind of sad, this dude is legit crazy and nobody is helping him



no kidding, they're not dumping out all of his coffeemae

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

this gets better





velcro shoes

EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005



EMILY BLUNTS fucked around with this message at 08:05 on Jun 22, 2011

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EMILY BLUNTS
Jan 1, 2005

read the pdf this is amazing

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