User:Katherine
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Shiny trinkets
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| For your contributions in help maintaining this wiki, especially for your anti-vandalism contributions wiooiw (talk) 11:12, 2 August 2010 (UTC) |
News and discussion
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- A request for adminship is open for discussion.
- An open letter regarding the Wikimedia Foundation's potential disclosure of editors' personal information is collecting signatures.
- Should it be a requirement for all administrators seeking resysop to have completed their last administrative action within the previous five years?
- Extended-confirmed pending changes and preemptive protection in contentious topics
- Are portals encyclopedic, and are they appropriate redirect targets?
- Should recall petitions be limited to signatures only?
- Nominations for the Arbitration Committee elections
- Should the length of a recall petition be shortened?
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Things I learned today
[edit]Time gentlemen, please*
Ever wondered why Coordinated Universal Time—that time standard which is not really GMT but means the same to normal people—is known as UTC? It's a compromise, between the English Coordinated Universal Time and the French Temps Universel Coordonné. A very fortunate compromise too. CUT and TUC just sound silly. But UTC? That's science. An acronym you can trust. Even if it is the linguistic version of "If you two can't share your toys nicely, nobody gets to play".
One of these things is not like the others*
In law, the canon ejusdem generis governs the interpretation of a phrase in a statute where general terms follow specific terms. To take the example of the phrase "cars, motor bikes, motor powered vehicles", the latter term is limited in scope to items of the same type or class as the former. So, a Vespa would be included, but Starbug would not. An example of this principle in action can be seen in the delightfully snarky and brilliant letter sent to the FBI by Mike Godwin, general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation and originator of the time-tested maxim of online discussion,Godwin's law of Nazi analogies.
Should we talk about the weather?*
The highest temperature ever recorded in Australia was 50.7 °C (123 °F) at Oodnadatta in 1960. The lowest? −23 °C (−9.4 °F) at Charlotte Pass, in 1994. If I had to choose one of those, I'd rather be in Oodnadatta.
Yeah, hi... is Al there?*
The Simpsons character Moe Szyslak is based on Louis "Red" Deutsch, former heavyweight boxer and owner of the Tube Bar inJersey City. A series of prank calls made to Deutsch in the 1970s was the inspiration for one of the show's early running gags.