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Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity

April 27, 2008 5:48am

Yes, but how many of those hours are now used for reading blogs aimlessly or looking at captioned pictures of cats?

Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia"

December 4, 2007 4:49am

Maybe this is just the English translation company stumped for a word and putting in something that's obscure enough (among Chinese restaurant managers anyway) to pass for the correct English translation? It would be familiar to anyone using the internet to look up translations, and if it's being used to translate squid of all things then the feet->pedia connection seems less likely.

Beijing restaurant serves "Wikipedia"

December 3, 2007 5:32pm

The work they're translating as "wikipedia" is 雞樅 jicong, apparently a type of fungus native to Yunnan province. Google translate gives "Zongyang", and there's no English Wikipedia page on it, so it's a mystery where that word was pulled from. Picture here.

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