Wikipedia: Fun for the whole family!

I love Wikipedia. I love the fact that the entry for Knuckles the Echidna, a secondary character from the Sonic the Hedgehog games, has a larger Wiki entry than William Shakespeare. I love that I possess the ability to change the description of my hometown to "Smells Faintly of Cabbage." And I love playing Six Degrees of Wikipedia, trying to link an article to another seemingly unrelated article via the links on the page.

I saw this little link today: Top 100 Wikipedia Searches. It apparently lists the top searched words on Wikipedia. I just found it funny that so many were about sex. I guess people used to like looking up rude words in the dictionary, so is this the next logical step?

And for those of you who are confused by both Wikipedia and the English language I suggest you give the Simple English Wikipedia a try. An attempt to make the information easier to understand, we are left with highly amusing entries such as the one for The Simpsons, which defines the program in one sentence: The program is mainly a criticism to the American culture. And there is something oddly innocent about refering to Barney Gumble as "One of Homer's friends, an alcoholic."

I cannot seem to get the Six Degrees of Wikipedia generator to work, so I guess there goes my friday nights. Some people play World of Warcraft. I play Wikipedia.

*SIGH*