Something beautiful in Wikipedia today: All 321 images being considered for Picture of the Year (2006). A few of my favorites:
- British fairground worker Albert Harris inside his “coconut shy” booth (# 8)
- Panorama of the British Museum reading room (# 71)
- Nuclear waste, who knew it could look so beautiful? (# 82)
- Satellite image of crops growing in Kansas (# 121)
- Beautiful blue day at Scheveningen (# 180)
- Ferrofluid spikes in a magnetic field (# 194)
- Clear glass, colored liquid, and the refraction of light (# 297)
- Black-headed gull descends like the Holy Spirit (# 300)
On a different battle front for the public domain, many Wikipedia editors stepped up last week to baffle multiple and diverse attacks on Wikipedia’s Dave Winer article, including several attempts to blank or delete the whole thing.
Wikipedians really are doing grand things for the future of information’s public availability.
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