Wikipedia: a little help please

[Delboy]

This one is interesting

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

[kinboshi]

This one's good for the comedy value.

[technolog]

Wikipedia ftw

[tikay]

This one is interesting

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

OMG - how did you find that?

That's the next week taken care of - gotta read that lot.

[Laxie]

That's his porn sorted for the whole week.   

[Ironside]

he has a flight to vegas surely he can manage to read it while on the plane

[Delboy]

This one is interesting

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

OMG - how did you find that?

That's the next week taken care of - gotta read that lot.

The Old Osterley Park & Spring Grove Station was my favorite bookshop when I was at school and lived in the area, but i new nothing about it for the entire 20 years I lived in there. So yesterday I found a link from 'London' to 'Underground railway' to Closed Stations' via a slight detour to 'Tunnels under the Thames'

[Sark79]

I recently discovered this site.  It isn't exactly a link to something interesting on wikipedia, however it is connected with wikipedia


http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page


For example, have you ever wanted to make a cocktail but didn't know where to start?

http://www.wikihow.com/Special:LSearch?fulltext=Search&search=cocktails


Or perhaps you have an uncontrollable urge to make an origami flying bird?    Well now you can 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Flying-Bird


On a serious note, I loved reading about these people on wikipedia

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

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

[kinboshi]

http://www.wikihow.com/Special:LSearch?fulltext=Search&search=plumbing

[AndrewT]

Maybe Wikipedia could answer me where the hell you've been, Mr Sark.

Welcome back.

[AndrewT]

BTW this is my favourite Wikipedia article.

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

[bolt pp]

I recently discovered this site.  It isn't exactly a link to something interesting on wikipedia, however it is connected with wikipedia


http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page


For example, have you ever wanted to make a cocktail but didn't know where to start?

http://www.wikihow.com/Special:LSearch?fulltext=Search&search=cocktails


Or perhaps you have an uncontrollable urge to make an origami flying bird?    Well now you can 

http://www.wikihow.com/Make-an-Origami-Flying-Bird


On a serious note, I loved reading about these people on wikipedia

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

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

whats happenin sark, what u been uo to?

check out youtube for origami, some blinding tutorials on there, i learned how to make the dragon was so convoluted took me ages to be able to do it unaided but pretty cool showing other people, check it out if you're into that.

[Sark79]

Since my last forum vist, I have been on a cycling holiday up North, slowly recovering from flu, working and watching lots of Cardrunners / PokerVT videos online. 

I have tried to make the bird, however the paper I used was rubbish.  It ended up looking like a deformed ant rather than a bird


Check this wikipedia link out,  I tried reading a book about this guy years ago,  I wish I had known about wikipedia back then

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

[gatso]

I had the problem with crappy paper when I tried origami so I gave up. normal printer paper's just not up to the job. it's ok for the simple things but I couldn't do the viking ship

[snoopy1239]

Well, I've read everything wikipedia has to offer on Nelson Mandella and a couple of things in particular caught my eye:

Whilst in prison Mandela undertook study with the University of London by correspondence through its External Programme and received the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He was subsequently nominated for the position of Chancellor of the University of London in the 1981 election, but lost to Princess Anne.

A few decades later, MK did wage a guerrilla war against the regime, especially during the 1980s, in which many civilians were killed. Mandela later admitted that the ANC, in its struggle against apartheid, also violated human rights, and has sharply criticised attempts by parts of his party to remove statements supporting this fact from the reports of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.[10]

The latter of these two makes me wonder what exactly he got up to. Was he really the angel he's portrayed to be or was he a very naughty boy.