The Evil Web

Wikipedia is Web 2.0 right? Yes, for the purposes of this entry it definitely is.

If you'd like to feel worse about the state of our society than you already inevitably do, please click here and read a fascinating Wall Street Journal entry on the horrors you may see when you use as a grad school reference peek inside Wikipedia.

As a read ahead, you will see word count comparisons of Wikipedia articles that may make you feel sorry for certain sects of our society that could produce visionaries able to write 10,000 words on the "lightsaber":

West Wing, White House (1,000)
"The West Wing," television series (6,700)

The Harlem Renaissance (1,300)
The Harlem Globetrotters (1,900)

Miles Davis, jazz musician (6,000)
Miles 'Tails' Prowler, sidekick of video game hero Sonic the Hedgehog (6,300)

Charles William Eliot, pioneering president of Harvard University (3,000)
Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts school, 'Harry Potter' series (5,200)

Steam engine (7,300)
Lightsaber, fictional weapon from "Star Wars" (10,000)

Apollo 13, space mission (3,900)
"Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan" (6,700)

Cecil B. DeMille (1,300)
Russ Meyer (3,500)

"Annie Hall" (2,500)
"Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back" (5,200)

Poker (1,400)
Magic: The Gathering, fantasy card game (7,800)

V.S. Naipaul, Nobel prize-winning author (1,500)
J.K. Rowling (4,000)

Miles Davis being less written about than Sonic the Hedgehog's sidekick makes me a sad panda.