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Britannica captures Wikipædia - what you say?

Britannica's hostile takeover of Wikipedia, or Wikipædia, henceforth, is a single-note joke that apparently exploded after some bloggish interest. The article grew and grew, fed by users' obsessions, copy and pasting, and a manic sense of accumulatio.

April 02, 2005 at 07:26 | Permalink

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I'm delighted to see "all your base are belong to us" made the cut toward the end. It's just no fun without that incantation.

Posted by: Gardner | April 04, 2005 at 12:44

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