Rachel Specter, aka RGX Bodyspray Girl makes me want to go to the store and buy it right now. 
Apparently she will be on a new Comedy Central show Not Another High School Show.
Archive for March, 2007
RGX Girl – Rachel Specter
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Vista Experience Revisited
Saturday, March 31st, 2007This cracked me up:
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I guess great minds think alike.
Lost: Nicky and Paulo were not in Pilot
Saturday, March 31st, 2007Can I make one thing abundantly clear here? Nicky and Paulo were a dirty, disgusting retcon! They were not in the pilot episode! And the fact that some people claiming that Damon and Carlton “planned” for it since the first episode, and that they remember seeing glimpses of them in the early episodes just makes me angry. There are so many easy ways to disprove it. For example, the IMDB cast list credits both Kiele Sanchez and Rodrigo Santoro are first credited in 2006.
Also, this:
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Lost Easter Eggs blog took screen shots from both the Pilot episode and Expose proving once and for all that this was all just a stupid retcon. This was not some master plan. Just the worst kind of retroactive continuity.
On the Proper Use of Wikipedia
Friday, March 30th, 2007I have this seeking suspicion that no one on this fucking internet knows how to use Wikipedia. So let me explain this to you people in few easy to understand points:
- Wikipedia is not a “source” – it is a “resource”
You know what is the only useful part of a wikipedia article? It’s the references section. There you can find links to credible sources, ISBN numbers of relevant books, and etc.. Wikipedia is a good place to start your research, or find out useless trivia that you don’t really care to verify.
- Wikipedia is not broken
If you find a wikipedia article that is blatantly wrong, or that consist of the “Fresh Prince of Bel Air” lyrics (and trust me, every Wikipedia article at some point does) it does not mean Wikipedia is broken. You don’t have to write a long blog post about dangers of wikipedia, wikipedia credibility and etc.. Complaining about wikipedia being inaccurate is like complaining that water is wet, that slashdot has dupes, or that there is porn on the internets. If you do it, you just end up looking like an idiot.
If the article is wrong, don’t whine about it. Fix it.
- If you want to chronicle Wikipedia vandalism link to the history page
I can’t tell you how many times I saw blog posts that link to a wikipedia article with something like “OMG, this is so funny!”. But when you actually click on the link you get taken to perfectly normal article. Remember, vandalism and controversial shit has a very short lifespan and will usually get yanked within hours if not minutes from posting.
- Wikipedia is Wiki first and Encyclopedia second
Next time feel an urge to compare Wikipedia to an actual encyclopedia, don’t. It is not really an encyclopedia. It is a community project in collecting and cataloging encyclopedic data. Keep that in mind at all times and see #1 and #2 on this list.
Hopefully this will clear up any confusion out there. Feel free to add your own points in the comments, or disagree with mine.
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