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Wikipedia - Betteridge's Law of Headlines, epicaricacy

Posted 21 March, 2017 at 3:17am by Michael Chu
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Betteridge's Law of Headlines - humorous adage that states "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
epicaricacy - apparently there is an English word for schadenfreude! (finding pleasure in the misfortune of others)

Wikipedia - USS Jimmy Carter, Karaage, El Nino, Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, Submarine, Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands

Posted 31 May, 2010 at 4:01pm by Michael Chu
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I haven't done many wikipedia searches in the last couple weeks, but here is what I did look up.

May 19, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Jimmy_Carter_%28SSN-23%29 - The USS Jimmy Carter was the third and last Seawolf-class nuclear submarine built. It was commissioned in 2005

May 21, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karaage - a Japanese fried meat. It is usually soy-flavored chicken

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Wikipedia - Kenmore Appliances, Popcap Games, Overhead Projector, Bell's Palsy, L. David Mech, Leash, Portal, Solfege, Shipoopi

Posted 17 May, 2010 at 7:16pm by Michael Chu
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May 10, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenmore_Appliances - Kenmore appliances are also sold at Kmart (contrary to a television commercial I saw today claiming they were exclusively sold at Sears)

May 11, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcap_games - Popcap often uses music written by Future Crew (the famed Finnish PC demo group of the early 1990's) members Jonne Valtonen and Peter Hajba for their games

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Wikipedia - Estate Tax, AK-56, Spartacus, Formula One, Six Flags, Sea Pineapple, 4581 Asclepius, Craig Parker

Posted 10 May, 2010 at 6:16pm by Michael Chu
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I realized that I do a lot of Wikipedia searches each week looking up random stuff. I thought it would be interesting to document some of them each week.

May 4, 2010
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_United_States - If you gift too much money in a year (each year is different depending on the current law), the excess comes out of a gift tax exemption (after 2011, unless laws change, has a lifetime maximum of $1 million) which in turn is subtracted from the estate tax exemption; During 2010, the estate tax in the US has been repealed but will be reinstated in 2011 automatically if no action from Congress is taken

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