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I'm sure we're all familiar with the Wikipedia, a user-submitted encyclopedia that has far better pictures on it than World Book's or Britannica's websites. That, and it's mostly correct.
In the interest of public ignorance, I propose a counterweight to the wikipedia and other books of "fact:" the
Wikiwrongea. Users would submit complete and total lies about people, places, and things that might potentially be true (e.g: "Charles, Prince of Wales. Born with four testicles...")
An editorial board would, with the help of corrections submitted by other users, remove all obvious untruths ("his green skin is a symptom of a chronic algae infection").
Here's a fun slice of lying, Im not sure how it fits in.
http://brainsluice....om/moonlanding.html
[dentworth, Oct 08 2004]
Disinfopedia
http://www.disinfopedia.org/
Surprise: it runs on Wiki [krelnik, Oct 08 2004]
Uncyclopedia
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
fails to meet the "might potentially be true" criterion. Otherwise, pretty close. [calum, Mar 29 2005, last modified Feb 10 2006]
"the Dutch have no concept of rust"
http://www.mousehan...e+a+couple+of+girls
[calum, Mar 29 2005]
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and digital photography would supply incontrovertable evidence. I'm lovin this idea. |
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I am the King of Lies. This is perfect for me. |
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Reminds me of the Great Hackenthorpe Book of Lies: |
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Did you know that the reason the windows steam up in winter is because of all the fish in the atmosphere? |
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The highest point in the world is only eight feet! |
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etc.etc. As advertised in the "Brand New Monty Python Bok" |
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Not quite what you propose, but related, is a site called Disinfopedia. They catalog web sites, "think tanks" and other human endeavors that have hidden political ties or are otherwise not straightforward about their agenda. See link. |
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Funny thing, I was just thinking of adopting "encyclopedia of incorrectness" as a nickname. |
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The Enquirer? That's nothing. Did you know that their news editor has had two brain surgeries? I'm surprised he can even come up with a coherent sentence anymore. |
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You could also produce a quiz game based on this encylopedia with incorrect, but plausible answers. It'd be excellent for upsetting parlour game know it alls. |
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About Uncyclopedia: own up, who else is there? One of you lot has to be responsible for the custard ICBMs, and the logo in the top left seems somewhat... familiar. |
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Calum once successfully convinced our mum that the Dutch have no concept of rust. |
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"Balderdash", a game we used to call "Dictionary", is about this, as I recall. |
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Baked -Sean Hannity- except he's not open source. |
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