Well, with all due disrespect to the Beeb, Russell, you'd think its employees would be too busy trying to restore their own credibility to be flushing Wikipedia's down the loo.

If you're talking about the faked phone-ins and the attempt to fit up the Queen, that's an example of how…

She strikes me as a bit of a noob. The reliably amusing Instaputz has been keeping score.

Oy... someone really needs to engrave this phrase on Althouse's laptop: DON'T FEED THE TROLLS AND WING-NUTS. She is a really excellent law-blogger, but lately she seems to be rising to every bit…

Heh I have a fair idea of who that might be. But I'll let him out himself :)

BBC's initial story neglects to mention BBC-sourced edits, many of them innocuous, a few likely to bring the Beeb into disrepute.

Well, with all due disrespect to the Beeb, Russell, you'd think its employees would be too busy trying to restore their own credibility to be flushing Wikipedia's down the…

Wouldn't it be intriguing if such a tool existed for conservapedia. Fewer entries, I'm sure, but the strike rate would be better.

which of my co-workers is obsessed with editing the 'English Folk Music' page.

Well Harry Orsman passed away already, but it's bound to be someone from Old or Middle English.

Nice to see somebody counting the rationalist, atheists and humanists though.

But I'm holding out for the possibility [the treasurers] like pendants too ...

if they do. i'm selling a bunch at craft 2.0 tomorrow.

You better have a reference for that stuff about me and Chuck Norris.

The include a number of edits on milk, rennet, Fonterra, etc, but they all look factually-based and uncontroversial.

There is/was a fan of horrorcore working for the company though, and someone who's very keen on pro wrestling.

Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?

That's easy, I'm editing Danyl Mclauchlan's page.

Treasury is the natural home of the pendant.

Surely you mean the natural home of the pedant.

Yes, I did. But I'm holding out for the possibility they like pendants too ...

Some interesting observations here on album downloads and a good music site generally. Is your album release strategy the right one? EMI is doing something on this at the moment as Coolfer notes.

EMI has increased its digital album market share by 5% in the last two…

The Reserve Bank and MCH both resolve to third parties.

Got a result from Qantas too. Nothing scandalous that I can see, but "Changed NZ Island references around. The South Island is colder than the North," is quite funny.

Well, there goes my day ...

Take the resulting IP address, and poke it into the WHOIS form at APNIC (for Asia-Pacific addresses, you see – there are…

BBC's initial story neglects to mention BBC-sourced edits, many of them innocuous, a few likely to bring the Beeb into disrepute.

LGF lizards go predictably apeshit.

BBC Interactive's editor addresses it all in quite an intelligent blog post, in which he also admits to having corrected his own…

Pentagon Paid $999,798 to Ship Two 19-Cent Washers to Texas

On another note, I'm not really a brewer, but I can't help thinking using brewers yeast rather than growing their own sacrificed some authenticity (admittedly perhaps on the altar of non-poisonousness).

Is Wikipedia so important that corporations and governments are prepared to risk the humiliaton of being caught altering pages?

Absolutely. It's the world's biggest encyclopedia, and the highest ranking Google source. And every advertiser and propagandist knows that controlling access to information is vital to their business. I don't think…

This raises Questions, of course. Is Wikipedia so important that corporations and governments are prepared to risk the humiliaton of being caught altering pages? Or are corporations and governments just very petty and vain?

Great, the wikiscanner site is down. Now what am I supposed to do all day?

Keep trying. You know you want it.