I use wikipedia a lot, so much so that I spell it with a lowercase ‘w’ because I think of it in the same way as I think of ’subway’ or ‘plumbing.’ I can’t, to be honest, imagine what I would do without it, and have been known to say—as my friends call it—’inflammatory’ things like “half of my brain is wikipedia” or simply “I am wikipedia.”

But while I no doubt had some idea, I didn’t—until yesterday—realize just how true that was. To access entries on wikipedia, I hit Command-L and type ‘en’, which brings up http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ (I use primarily the English wikipedia). Yesterday I hit the down-arrow a few times, and realized that my address has a lot of entries that begin with that string. I checked my history settings and realized that in the last nine days, I’ve accessed 211 different articles on teh wikipedizor. And here they are (sorry, no links; just type ‘en’ :)—

A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines
A Mathematical Theory of Communication
A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits
Accelerando (book)
Ad astra (phrase)
Adverse selection
Alexander Hamilton
Amartya Sen
Ampersand
Anteros
Asian Dust
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Backspace
Bariolage
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Bhopal disaster
Bill of rights
Bioregionalism
Blog
Bragg diffraction
Cargo cult science
Cass Sunstein
Category: Asymmetric information
Category: Compositions by Elliott Carter
Category: Emacs users
Category: Organizations
Category: Review websites
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality
Chaiyya Chaiyya
Cheap talk
Citysearch
Claude Elwood Shannon
Coase’s Penguin
Collective action
Columbia University
Columbia University tunnels
Comparative advantage
Complex network
Confidence interval
Consilience
Convective derivative
Coprolalia
Crowdsourcing
David Brin
Daylight saving time
Denization
Denouement
Differential form
Diffraction
Digg
Digraph
Dil Se
Disjoint sets
Dramatic structure
Dreyfus affair
Dynamical theory of diffraction
Earth
Eben Moglen
Ecco
ECCO
Echolalia
Edsger Dijkstra
Electronic herd
Elliott Carter
Emacs
eMusic
Enharmonic
Epinions
Ergo Proxy
Eros (mythology)
Ethan Zuckerman
Ex astris, scientia
Ecole Polytechnique
Elie Cartan
Falling action
Fanon (fiction)
Filler
Fourth Amendment
Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution
General Semantics
Gnosticism
GNU Screen
Governance
Graph (mathematics)
Helio (wireless carrier)
Human capital
Hypergraphia
Hyperlexia
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Image:The Earth seen from Apollo 17.jpg
Information asymmetry
Information economics
Information entropy
Information theory
InnoCentive
Integral thought
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report
Jacques Attali
James M. Buchanan
Janna Levin
Japanese American internment
John C. Lilly
John Maeda
Jouissance
Julia Kristeva
Kelly criterion
Kelly Criterion For Stock Market
Ketamine
Key signature
Kibosh
Kievan Rus’
Kiln People
Klazomania
Konrad Lorenz
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Lagrange multipliers
Laszlo Birinyi
Learning organization
Leon Walras
Linus’s Law
List of Columbia College people
List of Serial Experiments Lain media
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Lysistrata
Main Page
Map/territory relation
Maria Bethania
Mass collaboration
Michael Spence
Miller index
Mind map
Modernism
Modulation (music)
Modulation
Network effect
Network theory
New School
Nexus magazine
Nobel Prize in Economics
Oliver Sacks
Palilalia
Panjabi MC
Partition
Partition of a set
Peripateia
Plaisir
Policy Analysis Market
Post-structuralism
Prediction market
Principal-agent problem
Prisoner’s dilemma
Psychoanalysis
Public choice theory
Public good
Rabindranath Tagore
Reputation management
Reputation system
Rivalry (economics)
Ronald Coase
Runlevel
Schadenfreude
Screening (economics)
Serial Experiments Lain (game)
Serial Experiments Lain
Shah Rukh Khan
Signaling games
Signalling (economics)
Simone de Beauvoir
Singularity
Slate (disambiguation)
Slate (magazine)
Slate
Slice of life story
Small Is Beautiful
Smart mov
Social network
St. Paul’s Chapel
Stern Review
Stewart Brand
Structuralism (biology)
Structuralism
Substantive derivative
Sustainable development
Sybil
Sybil attack
Ta
Technological singularity
Tel Quel
The Cathedral and the Bazaar
The Corporation
The End of History and the Last Man
The Firesign Theatre
The KLF
The New School
The Transparent Society
Thomas Pogge
Total derivative
Tragedy of the anticommons
Trail of Tears
Transdisciplinarity
tribe.net
Tripod.com
United States Bill of Rights
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Unreal Tournament 2003
VALIS
Web standards
William Easterly
WordPress
X-ray crystallography
Zaadz