Thursday, January 10, 2008

Things I learned by reading Wikipedia

Paris Hilton is a descendant of Zsa Zsa Gabor

Mozart's full name was Joannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart

The Tom Cruise/Katie Holmes phenomena "TomKat" has its own Wikipedia entry *sigh*

Uranus as 27 named moons: Ariel, Umbriel, Belinda, Titania, Oberon, Puck, Miranda, Caliban, Sycorax, Prospero, Setebos, Stephano, Trinculo, Francisco, Ferdinand, Cordelia, Ophelia, Bianca, Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Mab, Portia, Rosalind, Margaret, Perdita, and Cupid

Colugos are also known as cobegos or flying lemurs (misleadingly, since they are not lemurs and cannot fly).

3 comments:

Adriana said...

You're awesome. See you tomorrow!!

Unknown said...

I just read up on Zsa Zsa and Paris, and I as far as I can tell. Zsa Zsa would have been Paris' step great-grandmother.

Zsa Zsa as the evil step-mother?

Joe said...

Aha, you've stumbled upon the Problem with Wikipedia.

For fun, play the Wikipedia game! Hit "Random Article", and from this starting point, try to get to "Jesus" in 6 clicks of the left mouse button (intra-page anchors like a table of contents don't count). It's dirt simple--I've never taken more than 4.

btw, were you aware of the dangers of knitting?