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twelve popular wikis

clipped from www.makeuseof.com We all love wikipedia : it’s comprehensive, 100% user-edited (aka wiki-style), up-to-date, rather objective, and totally free. It’s a perfect wiki-powered system. While it’s by far the most popular one, it’s not the only wiki-style website that ‘works’ . There are plenty of other successful wikis, focused on specific areas i.e, book summaries, cooking, HowTo’s and even ‘bullshit’. So, here you go, popular wikis that have something to offer. (1) Wikipedia - all-favorite, biggest online encyclopedia (2) WikiTravel - world-wide travel guide, covers destination guides, hotels and resorts (3) WikiHow - ‘How-To’ manuals for the problems of everyday life. ( ‘HowTo’s: Hack a Coke Machine , Get Six Pack Abs , How to choose a Debt Management program , etc.) (4) WikiBooks - huge collection of user-edited, open-content textbooks and guides. ( Textbooks: Chess guide , Learn French … ) (5) CookBookWiki - recipes and cooking related wiki. Sections includ
B usy B ee ( Bee Bee ) Mr. Bee Bee and his business partner Sunil Kohli changed the way most people use their Home. The pair started the search for Bar while working in a MNC at Guduvancherri, located near Chennai. They initially had no plans to start a Bar on their Own, but were simply doing research for their requirement of bar and searched Google quickly and decided they can use Bee Bee's Home as a bar during weekends. And they are continue doing that. This way they save lot of money and they are doing this in a big way. they might invite you all one day to their bar. best of luck.
Did You Know? Eyes Are the most complex organs you possess except for your brain. Eyes Are composed of more than two million working parts. Eyes Can process 36,000 bits of information every hour. Eyes Under the right conditions, can discern the light of a candle at a distance of 14 miles. Eyes Contribute towards 85% of your total knowledge. Eyes Utilize 65% of all the pathways to the brain. Eyes Can instantaneously set in motion hundreds of muscles and organs in your body. Eyes In a normal life-span, will bring you almost 24 million images of the world around you. Eyes The external muscles that move the eyes are the strongest muscles in the human body for the job that they have to do. They are 100 times more powerful than they need to be. Eyes The adult eyeball measures about 1 inch (2.5 cm) in diameter. Of its total surface area only one-sixth is exposed -- the front portion. Eyes The eye is the only part of the human body that can function at 100
Oxymorons..... Here you will find the top 45 oxymorons. An oxymoron is a combination of two words that are completely opposite in meaning. You've probably heard many of these before but didn't realize that they fall within this category. Read to the end. 45. Act naturally 44. Found missing 43. Resident alien 42. Advanced BASIC 41. Genuine imitation 40. Airline Food 39. Good grief 38. Same difference 37. Almost exactly 36. Government organization 35. Sanitary landfill 34. Alone together 33. Legally drunk 32. Silent scream 31. Living dead 30. Small crowd 29. Business ethics (Good One) 28. Soft rock 27. Butt head 26. Military intelligence 25. Software documentation 24. New classic 23. Sweet sorrow 22. Child Proof 21. "Now, then " 20. Synthetic natural gas 19. Passive aggression 18. Taped live 17. Clearly misunderstood 16. Peace force 15. Ex
S heep Story Once upon a time there was a shepherd looking after his sheep on the side of a deserted road. Suddenly a brand new Porsche screeches to a halt.The driver, a man dressed in an Armani suit, Cerutti shoes, Ray-Ban sunglasses, TAG-Heuer wrist-watch, and a Pierre Cardin tie gets out and asks the shepherd, "If I can tell you how many sheep you have, will you give me one of them?" The shepherd looks at the young man, then looks at the large flock of grazing sheep and replies, "Okay." The young man parks the car, connects his laptop to the mobile-fax, enters a NASA Website, scans the ground using his GPS, opens a database and 60 Excel tables filled with algorithms and pivot tables. He then prints out a 150-page report on his high-tech mini-printer, turns to the shepherd and says, "You have exactly 1,586 sheep." The shepherd cheers, "That's correct, you can have your sheep." The young man takes an animal and puts it in the
Sachin Thandalkaar having lighter moments with his team member before world cup. Sachin Thandalkaar and his team after world cup relaxing at some undisclosed place.