New website provides a unique search experience and some fun Easter eggs  

18.5.2009  

 

Z obrazovky už dávno zmizel pořad Riskuj, ve kterém soutěžící dokazovali svůj přehled ve všech možných oborech lidské činnosti.Pokud se vám po něm někdy zasteskne, tato hra jej dokáže docela dobře nahradit.  

Irský student dostal nápad - využil malého podvodu a do hesla internetové encyklopedie Wikipedia propašoval falešnou citaci. Pak už jen čekalkolik novinářů ji přebere a nestačil se divit. Ke svému pokusu si zvolil profil francouzského hudebního skladatel  

This free Wikipedia client not only lets you access Wikipedia articles but offers a host of other cool features as well.

14.5.2009  

 

When Dublin university student Shane Fitzgerald posted a poetic but phony quote on Wikipedia, he was testing how our globalised, increasingly internet-dependent media was upholding accuracy and accountability in an age of instant news.  

Marie vonEbner-Eschenbach (1830-1916). (Foto: Wikipedia.org) Vysočina - V rámci Dolnorakouské zemské výstavy přichází její doprovodná součást, jíž  

Nový formát vědomostní soutěže, tak nějak vypadá The Wikipedia Challenge. Nejvyš...  

Quick encyclopedia and dictionary look up in Wiktionary and Wikipedia  

Hans Moleman, on Jonathan Tobin: Wikipedia defines Appeasementas “granti  

A 22-year-oldstudent posts a phony quote on Wikipedia purporting to be from deceased composer Maurice Jarre. He claims it was part of a sociology project. The media believes it's a real quote.  

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Irish student put up fake quotes on Wikipedia immediately after French composer Maurice Jarre's death.  

Hugh Pickens writes A quote attributed to French composer Maurice Jarre was posted on wikipedia shortly after his death in March and later appeared in obituaries in mainstream media. 'One could say my life itself has been one long soundtrack. Music was m  

Ilustrace Koláž http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Aldiss Buran 10 bodů  

Skutečný tragický příběh sesterské lodi Titanicu (http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britannic_(1914)). Dobrodružný velkofilm plný napětí a nečekaných zvratů. Film Britannic vydala DVD edice - vyšlo v úterý 5.5.2009. Cena 49,- Kč.  

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Editors say world's fourth-most popular Web site presents problematic views on Hamas, Iran, Holocaust denial. 05:24  

3.5.2009 

Kdo by neznal tu úžasnou studnici vědomostí jakou je Wikipedia. Online svobodná encyklopedie čítající v anglické verzi 2,8 mil. článků a v české verzi 125 tis. článků. Málokdo však ví, že společnost Wikimedia Foundation provozuje i jiné svobodné projekty  

Autor: K225 Zaslal: 28/4/2009, 16:42 (GMT 1) Téma Odpovědí: 8 Wikipedia: Jiná skupina Bojů pronikla ve 4.- 3.stole  

Mezi lidmi existují běžné každoroční epidemie chřipky, které se někdy změní na pandemie. Kdysi jsem měl pratetu, která sice přežila

27.4.2009  

 

Encarta byla první multimediální CD, které jsem měl doma, byloto ještě v dobách předinternetových (alespoň o se týče domáností a drtivé většiny firem). Pokud si pamatuji dobře, bylo to v roce 1997, v té době jsem byl ještě na VŠ a CD bylo  

Firemní intranet? Osobní či jiné webové stránky? Vlastní Wikipedia? To všechno lze poměrně jednoduše zařídit s pomocí wiki aplikace - systému, který umožňuje zápis i editaci více uživatelům s komplexní správou přístupových práv a historií změn. Takových e  

Reakcí na rozsudek zakladatelů serveru The Pirate Bay vznikla ve Švédsku strana

25.4.2009  

 

Hugh Pickens writes Can a noncommercial website use the trademark of the entity it critiques in its domain name? Surprisingly, it appears that the usually open-minded folks at Wikipedia think not. The EFF reports that Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern ha  

Letoun F-35 Lighting II přistává 23. října 2008 na základně Edwards v Californii, USA. (Wikipedia.org) Čínští hackeři zaútočili a pr  

Nadace Wikimedia a francouzský mobilní operátor Orange oznámili uzavření spolupráce při vývoji mobilní verze oblíbené internetové encyklopedie Wikipedia. Více  

UK, France, Spain and Poland mobile users will benefit from dealThe Wikimedia Foundation has signed a deal with French operator Orange to bring online encyclopedia Wikipedia to mobile phone users in the UK, France, Spain and Pola  

23 Apr 2009 11:11 GMT ... Customers in France, UK, Spain and Poland given access to co-branded Wiki/Orange content. The agreement ... Fournier, EVP of Orange's Audience Line of Business, said: “At Orange we are committed to ...  

23 Apr 2009 09:50 GMT ... This Article Orange to Offer Mobile Version of ... launched in France, the UK, Spain and Poland. Phase twoof the agreement will see the ... Vice President of Orange Audience Line of Business, said: ?At Orange we are committed to ...  

Norman Jewison is notJewish, though his name quite literally begs the question. In fact, the association of “Jewison” and “Jewish” is so strong there is a section in his Wikipedia entry devoted to debunking the myth: “Notwithstanding his alliterative sur  

Heres our ludicrous creationist news of the day. After failing to get the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board to accredit them to offer a masters degree in science education, the Biblical literalists at the

21.4.2009  

 

Opt-out for all the domains under the Wikimedia Foundation's controlWikipedia will follow in the footsteps of online retailer Amazon by blocking targeted advertising system Phorm from tracking visitorsto its popular online encyc  

Opt-out for all the domains under the Wikimedia Foundation's controlWikipedia will follow in the footsteps of online retailer Amazon by blocking targeted advertising system Phorm from tracking visitors to its popular online encyc  

evariste.galois writes Wikipedia has a special section called, 'Language Philosophy,' in every article for a programming language. This section looks at the motivation and the basic principles ofthe language design. What if we investigate further than t  

A multiplatform dictionary and offline Wikipedia reader  

Určite poznáte veľa rôznych máp, ktoré ste našli na internete alebo kúpili v obchode. Voľná mapa www.freemap.sk je však iná, je tvorená ľuďmi a pre ľudí. Podobne ako wikipédia je tvorená...  

Two more days of massive caloric intake, prayer, learning some Torah, wonderful afternoon naps and catching up on reading. To be followed by annual the frenzied trip to a local kosher Dunkin' Donuts to get some serious

15.4.2009  

Combined Stream from Israel 

 

Voting is underway by Wikipediaeditors on whether to migrate to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike primary content license, a move strongly backed by the Free Culture movement and the likes of Larry Lessig.

14.4.2009  

 

By Ted Belman According to Wikipedia, the Punjab region straddles Pakistan and India. New York Times reports

14.4.2009  

 

According to Wikipedia, Sheikh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi is the leader of Italian Muslim Assembly and a co-founder and a co-chairman of the Islam-Israel Fellowship, based on w  

mlinksva writes A Wikipedia community vote is now underway on migrating to Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike as the main content license for Wikimedia Foundation projects. This wouldremove a legal barrier to reusing Wikipedia content (now under th  

Explore Wikipedia!  

4. dubna 2009 - 13:00 Forest fire wikipedia.org S přicházejícím jarem začínají nad českými lesy každoročně kroužit speciální monitorovací letadla, která hlídají případné vznikající lesní požáry. Letos ale vinou p  

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales kills off his year-old, crowdsourced attempt to challenge Google's search box. Its death shows that Google won't be overthrown the way it took over search in the 1990s.

4.4.2009  

 

IN 1633,Galileo Galilei was broughtto trial and convicted of heresyfor suggesting thatthe Earth was not the center of the Universe and that, in fact, the Earth revolved around the Sun. (From Wikipedia)

3.4.2009  

Combined Stream from Israel 

 

2. dubna 2009 - 15:40 Jaro je tady commons.wikipedia.org Tento víkendse opravdu vydaří. Teploty se budou šplhat až k hodnotám, které jsou obvyklé pro květen. Není proto vyloučeno, že na některých místech do  

Kedysi populárna interaktívna encyklopédia Encarta končí. Rozhodlo o tom vedenie firmy,ktoré ju na prelome marca a apríla posunulo na perifériu svojho záujmu.  

Offline webový prohlížeč stránek Wikipedia (Freeware)  

1.4.2009  

 

1.4.2009  

 

Microsoft končí s vydávaním a aktualizovaním svojej encyklopédie Encarta. Rozhodol tak po zhodnotení objemov predaja. Tiev posledných rokoch rapídne ...  

Having determined that it can't cut it in search, the user-generated reference company of Wikipedia founderJimmy Wales kills its experimental engine.  

Microsoft chystá ukončiť encyklopédiu Encarta, ktorá v posledných rokoch stráca pevnú pôdu pod nohami kvôli voľne dostupným encyklopédiám typu Wikipédia a podobne.  

31.3.2009  

 

Raul654 writes In December,we discussed the German Federal Archive's agreement, at the urging of Wikimedia Deutschland, to donate 100,000 pictures to Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. At the time that was the largest p  

The software maker decides to shelve its online encyclopedia, no doubt due to the growth of alternatives such as Wikipedia.  

Obama tento projekt nezrušil (

30.3.2009  

 

An anonymous readerwrites Who needs crusty old rubbish like the Victorian era or World War II? Instead, an Ofsted report leaked to The Guardian details proposals to teach UK primary school children how to use Wikipedia, Twitter, podcasts and blogs. Pres  

There are a number of companies offering Platform as a Service (PaaS), but little agreement about what PaaS is or how to compare various PaaS offerings from companies ranging from SalesForce to WaveMaker. Even the Wikipedia entry on PaaS starts with a ste  

In U.K. primary schools' curriculum, it's out with the 1939-45 War (or the 1942-45 War, as it's known in some parts) and in with Twitter and Wikipedia. Will the Queen object?  

The success of Twitter, blogs and wikipediahave earned them a place in the primary school Nati  

Primary school pupils in England should learn to blog and use internet sites like Twitter and Wikipedia, spending less time studying history, it is claimed.  

Oh dear. So now I'm addicted to Twitter. For those of you who don't knowwhat that means, a) where have you been? And b) worry not, it's not exactly like crack, it's just similar. According to Wikipedia, Twitter is a social networking and micro-bloggi  

http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/16._ledna  

As an excuse for an open thread, heres anotherreminder that LGF now has automatic updates on Twitter, every time a new post appears out of the

22.3.2009  

 

Dnes si povíme něco o polotónových obrázcích. Wikipedia nám říká, že polotónové obrázky jsou takové obrázky, u kterých jsou odstíny šedé simulovány různou velikostí teček. A pokud máte chvilku času, rovnou si ve Photoshopu nějaký takový vytvoříme. 1) Vytv  

Shows you a relevant Wikipedia article along with your search results.  

Približne 900 článkov zo slovenskejmutácie Wikipedie sa objavilo na mapovom serveri FreeMap.sk. V portfóliu služby pribudla vrstva, ktorá sprístupňuje ...  

pnorth writes Editors at Wikipedia have removed a link to a blacklisted web site that sat uncontested for over 24 hours in the main body of the Australian regulator's own Wikipedia entry. The link, which directs readers to a site containing graphic image  

da sa? neda sa? wikipedia a kopa inych sa snazia . . [ Celý článok ]

Sugar-coated warning Sir Alan Sugar is distressed by what he regards as an attempt to invade his privacy. The Daily Mirror, for whom he has written over many years, is the source of this unwanted umbrage.  

Expert, concise but far from bland, Oxford's Very Short Introductions series must rank by now as a thinking reader's Wikipedia. For its 200th title, philosopher Nigel Warburton spans two millennia and more of knotty quarrels over  

Surfraw (Shell Users' RevolutionaryFront Rage Against the Web) provides a Unix command line interface to a variety of popular Web search engines and sites, including Google, Altavista, Wikipedia, Babelfish, Ebay, Wayback, Research Index, Yahoo!, Slashdot  

What does Purim celebrate?Wikipedia says Purim is a festival that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people of the ancient Persian Empire from Haman's plot to annihilate them.

 

As described on Wikipedia, SpeedStep is a trademark for a series of dynamic frequency scaling technologies (including SpeedStep, SpeedStep II, and SpeedStep III) built into some Intel microprocessors t  

Fox News reports that Wikipedia editors are deleting controversial facts from Barack Obama's entry within minutes of them popping up. Among the deletions: a claim that Obama may have faked his birth certificate. When you look at who added that factoid i  

So, I’m a computer guy. What the heck is capital? As defined by Wikipedia it’s: “…any liquid medium or mechanism that represents wealth,or other styles of capital. It is, however, usually purchasing power in the form of money available for the production  

Inspiration ($1) is an applicationthat can display random motivational quotes at the touch of a button. Each quote can be emailed or users can find out additional information on the author through a Wikipedia link. Inspiration includes a large database o  

President Obama's Wikipedia page makes no mention of links to former Weatherman terrorist Bill Ayers and only briefly cites his connection to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.  

OSLO (AP) — A 450-year-old painting by Renaissance artist

9.3.2009  

 

Two days ago we had in Practical Marketing discussion, what's the difference between B2B (business-to-business), B2C (business-to-consumer), B2G (business-to-government)or C2B, G2B etc. The Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, is 

Photo: Anthony Pepitone on

6.3.2009  

 

The things they say about MPs and the battle to stop them  

4.3.2009  

 

Čo sa stane s informáciami, ak o ich pravdivosti rozhoduje internetová džungľa?  

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Instead of all those round trips to Wikipedia, AQwikWiki adds the missing piece of information right into the text you're reading!  

MediaWiki::Bot (previously Perlwikipedia) is a Perl module designed to interface with the Wikipedia online encyclopedia and other MediaWiki-powered sites. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:

26.2.2009  

Freshmeat.net 

 

theodp writes It wasn't so long ago, but Slate's Farhad Manjoo notes that The Internet of 1996 is almost unrecognizable compared with what we have today. No YouTube, Digg, Huffington Post, Gawker, Google, Twitter, Facebook, or Wikipedia. In 1996, America  

Every once in a while, Jews in Israel get together to pray at the Tomb of Joseph in Nablus/Shechem.Under the Oslo Accords,

23.2.2009  

 

Explore Wikipedia!  

I attended a double lecture a few weeks ago in which Tarek Fatah and Salim Mansur spoke. They outdid each other in their perceptive remarks. They are both courageous heroes. Wikipedia: Tarek Fatah (born November 20, 1949) is a secula  

(UK) Muslims in the UK have failed in their attempt in which to bypass the

21.2.2009  

 

Předseda Likudu Benjamin Netanjahu(http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin Netanjahu) hodlá nabídnout předsedkyni Kadimy Cipi Livni (http://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipi Livni) významné vládní posty a právo veta nad vládními rozhodnutími, pokud bude souhlasit