iNode: Nota Bene

Listening to Jason Scott's presentation about Wikipedia.

http://www.archive.org/details/20060408-jscott-wikipedia

It's about how Wikipedia is good, and how it's bad. It's called "The Great Failure of Wikipedia" … and for good reason. Jason knows a lot about the subject, and is an entertaining speaker. He occasionally swears, so be warned.

His website http://textfiles.com is an ecletic collection of interesting stuff, go surf …

“They” keep identifying people from their dental records, but how many people could lay their hands on such things? Due to a visit to the dentist recently, I now have my hands on a copy of my dental Xray …

The downside to this is the wisdom tooth on the right (on the left of the image, of course). It is probably coming out in the next few weeks, along with a couple of friends …

Wikipedia gives me a couple of interesting phrases: “Horizontal Impaction” and “Pericoronitis”.