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A BOLD CLAIM ON WIKIPEDIA

UPDATE: I recently received a message on MySpace regarding this entry I wrote (see after jump) from January about a Wikipedia entry on Spring, Texas that I came across for some research I was doing for work. Apparently, the hyperbolical entry was written by the nephew of the guy who wrote me on MySpace. It seems the nephew and his friends wrote the Wikipedia entry (highlighting one of the negative aspects to an open source knowledge bank) and the nephew's mother is none too happy that her son and his friends wrote their full names on there on the big, scary Internets. I copied and pasted the Wiki entry, and since then, she's asked me to remove their names. The mother probably watched a bit too many episodes of To Catch a Predator, but hey, the last thing I want to do is piss off a mother, so I'm fulfilling her request.

I said this before, but women sure love to have editorial control and deletion powers over EVERYTHING.

Honestly though, if her kids are savvy enough to go onto Wikipedia and make edits, then they are probably taking a gander at other websites that she wouldn't be too happy to find them visiting. Just an FYI.

Don't ask me why, but I had to do some quick research on the town of Spring, Texas and one of the sources I checked was Wikipedia. It's generally a good advice to not use Wikipedia as the sole source or primary or even secondary source, because you get faulty or exaggerated claims such as this one I found for the entry on Spring, Texas:

Spring Texas is a place where people live such as CH, BS, CC, AS and TR. It also includes Trinity Lutheran School, which is the best school in the world.

That is a bold, bold claim. Replace Trinity with Brown and now we're talking. *Cough*

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SONG HAS BEEN DELETED

I'm not too inspired tonight to write anything, but I do have a question for all ya'll.  I noticed recently that the song on my MySpace profile was removed by Wilco.  I'm in need of a new song to put up on there.  So, any suggestions?

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