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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

David Livingstone
Photograph credit: Thomas Annan; restored by Adam Cuerden

Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

Etc.

My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

Writing

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

Nonfiction

How to appreciate jazz without really trying.
Sk8er Boi.
Understanding Comics.
File sharing is theft (read all the way through before you send me angry emails).
How to build a computer out of black holes.
Why is the sky blue?.
Does the Universe have granularity?.
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).

Fiction

Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to Disintegrate?.
LifeTM.
Schrodinger killed his cat.
On the Division of Labor.
The Sticker Underground .
Private Eye.



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Did you know...

Wingspread
Wingspread
  • ... that when the owner of the house Wingspread (pictured) complained that his roof was leaking, the architect reportedly advised him to move his chair?
  • ... that music manager Alan Wills learned about management from his father, who was "in charge of the UK's nuclear early warning system"?
  • ... that according to some value theorists, nothing is good or bad?
  • ... that the main dome of the Sadna Qasai Mosque has collapsed?
  • ... that Gil Skeate was called up to the NFL straight from a lumber camp?
  • ... that a Doctor Who episode took place during the partition of India, and used a unique Indian adaptation of the usual closing theme?
  • ... that multiple deaths could have been avoided if the Peachtree 25th Building had a fire sprinkler system?
  • ... that it took 40 years after the formation of the state of West Bengal before a member of the Rajbanshi people became a government minister?
  • ... that anthropologist H. Russell Bernard teamed up with an oceanographer to estimate the number of people killed in an earthquake?