About the Wikipedia Knowledge Dump:

“From the bold to the beautiful, from the wicked to the wise, every day the Wikipedia team relegates possibly “inappropriate” submissions to the garbage dump of time. Here, we make selected “potential” rejects immortal and preserve them for posterity. (All of these entries have been nominated for deletion at the time of posting.)”

The site is edited by Cliff Pickover. According to himself, he’s “a prolific author and futurist, having published more than 40 books, translated into over a dozen languages. Exploring topics ranging from computers and creativity to art, mathematics, parallel universes, Einstein, time travel, alien life, religion, dimethyltryptamine elves, and the nature of human genius” (Official website). He’s the author of such books as Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves (2005) and Jews in Hyperspace.

Here’s what you may find while browsing this knowledge dumpster:

• A list of Celebrity Laser Eye Patients
• An article on drunk blogging
• A list of songs about hair
• A list of fictional worms
• An article about the difficulty of having sexual intercourse with a mermaid
• A list of bands beginning with the word “lemon”
• An article about The Chickenology Encyclopedia : a compilation of answers to the question “Why did the chicken cross the road?”
• A list of notable moustaches in art and fiction
• An article about the sexuality of Abraham Lincoln
• An article about human cheese
• A list of Homer Simpson’s lifelong dreams
• Last but not least, let’s not forget the list of people who died in the bathroom.

Discovered via Doctorak, GO!

About Open Atrium : “Open Atrium is a team portal starter package. What makes it unique is that it’s extensible and customizable. This means that you - and everyone - can develop new features for it, add other modules, change the skin, totally re-factor the workflow, and do anything else that you can think up to make Open Atrium meet your exact needs. Check out the Developer FAQ to get started.

We open sourced Open Atrium because we see it as a seed for something much larger - a community that makes great team communications tools. And it’s working. Open Atrium is being translated in more than a dozen languages and several hundred people are growing its base of features. Together we can develop the most advanced knowledge management tools.

This is all possible because everyone can access all of the code. Most of Open Atrium’s source code falls under GPL v. 2 b, since it’s built on the open source Drupal framework. All the code that’s not under GPL has a BSD license, which keeps it just as open and gives people even more flexibility.” (Read more)

“Fratelli Alinari is the world’s oldest photographic firm founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contain 3.5 million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to modern digital photos.” (Wikipedia).

Visit Alinari’s Photolibrary Education : “a digital catalogue of 150,000 photographs, both historical and contemporary, selected by the most qualified professors in Italian and European universities.”. You can also explore E-dotto “a complete teaching aid, created with the help of teachers and authors of educational manuals: 3 virtual laboratories (Art, History, Science), 150 topics with extensive texts, 15,000 images.” Registration needed in both case : 68 EUR.