A lot of people confuse being physically alone with being lonely. Not even remotely close to being the same thing.

Mediawiki has a number of humorous bug reports, though not as many as I’d like. Still, they’re quite funny.

I think my favorites are the request for RESOLVED MURDERED, the real reason why MediaWiki runs on MySQL, someone asking where the community consensus is to stop Volcanoes exploding, offers of shamanic help, a ground breaking report on US Government corruption, and a warning about zoning laws required for shipping Ponies,

I’m going to be moving all my cash off ICICI and on to… somewhere else (undecided) ASAP.

They have paste disabled everywhere, by placing onpaste=”return false” on all their text elements. I know that this is easily fixable, so let me open inspector by right cli-oh!

Well, no matter – I can simply use a short cut. Once getting rid of the frustrating onpaste, I found this in the HTML right below it:

I have spent far too much time in the company of people who set in motion the process that results in stuff like this (and their blinking ‘NEW!’ gifs), and I’m not going to be anywhere near where they are.

Now to find a Bank that hires less incompetent people…

Update: For good measure, they’ve now locked me out of the account, so a good part of my cash is now locked in there. Should go the physical location asap and transfer all of it out.

Today’s share of well sourced but WTF wikipedia article is the Puppy pregnancy syndrome, a psychosomatic illness in humans that makes them believe that they’re pregnant with a puppy.

I do love the Onion Channel on Youtube.

I will start posting amusing but fairly well sourced wiki articles here occasionally.

Starting with the article on Toilet related deaths & injuries. I love the caption for the photograph :)

Also has fun part about how Elvis probably died. Highly recommended read :)

Quoting from Anna University’s guidelines for submitting a ‘project report’

Appendix 1: Sample Code. Font style: Times New Roman, Font Size:12 and 1.5 line spacing.

Shoot me now.

Exploring the English Wikipedia randomly, I encountered this template used to approximate the current live population of India. It uses the following simple formula:

(1176242 + 42.197260273969 * days_since(2010,1,26)) * 000

It’s based on population at a specific data + projected growth. The ‘update’ is done by (best guess) some bot hitting action=purge every night to re-do the calculation.

And where is this used? After looking at the template’s info page, the only article this seems to be used in is the India article, and that too only for population density statistics, rather than actual population statistics. Weird, since if Density can be calculated based on projection, I guess population could be too.

The machinations that people invent on Wikipedia are very fascinating! I hope to discover more over time. If you’ve suggestions on places for me to look (please, no WPBannerMeta / associated templates!), leave comments!

Absolutely hilarious, but you could easily dub out a few words and have it pass for real. Not sure if funny or sad.

Has quote about how Jesus was Indian, because among other things, because “Parents had a son without having sex”.

This entire BBC series (Goodness Gracious Me) is incredibly hilarious. Most of them are on Youtube. Highly recommended.

Thanks to QCoder from #wikipedia-en for the tip. Cheered up an otherwise bad day :)

Trigger warning: Completely inappropriate background music for the subject matter being discussed

I ran into this very interesting video from Senthil‘s facebook feed. The part that I found most interesting was the sense of entitlement – that despite not knowing anything about what they are going to be hired for (aka Programming), and admitting it to everyone, they still expect to be given jobs when they want.

While this would make sense in someplace like the military, where you go in and then train, it makes no sense for graduates of an engineering program, where they spent 4 years of their life training. They claim that they spent four years studying programming but can not pass a simple written programming test, and do not want to even attempt writing it.

I don’t understand engineering students, and I’ve been surrounded by them for the last 5 years.