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Cavi Mike · 10-21-2010, 04:04 PM

Today I Wiki'd Frank's RedHot because for some reason I thought it came from my hometown of Rochester, NY. Then I realized that's Boss Sauce but not before I somehow ended up on the Opium Poppy page. (RedHot is from Parsippany, NJ, by the way). I tried to retrace my steps on how I could go from a hot-sauce to the plant responsible for producing the most addictive drug on the planet but that didn't work since I always use the middle-click on my mouse to open pages in a new window(I always accidentally hit the "Back" button on my mouse while I'm reading something, aggravates me so bad). I also tried to figure out where over an hour of my life disappeared to but at least I know I have yet another entry stored in my cache of worthless information.

As I was nearing the end of my searches I saw a banner up top with a link to a "note" from the founder of Wikipedia and I decided to read that, too. Of course it was just them looking for money but did you know it costs 20 million dollars a year to run that site? Holy crap! And they get all of it, or at least that's what I gathered, from donors. This place(TFP) runs on less than 1,500 bux! This deserves another Holy Crap!

I guess what I'm getting at is I don't exactly know how lost I would be without the Googles, Wikipedias and TFP's this lovely interweb has put at my fingertips so I think donating the only proper thing to do. Except for Google, they get their money from adverts. Keep the web advert free! Donate!

10-21-2010, 04:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cavi Mike rightUp Location: San Fran, NY USA	Do you ever get lost in the Wikipedia web? Today I Wiki'd Frank's RedHot because for some reason I thought it came from my hometown of Rochester, NY. Then I realized that's Boss Sauce but not before I somehow ended up on the Opium Poppy page. (RedHot is from Parsippany, NJ, by the way). I tried to retrace my steps on how I could go from a hot-sauce to the plant responsible for producing the most addictive drug on the planet but that didn't work since I always use the middle-click on my mouse to open pages in a new window(I always accidentally hit the "Back" button on my mouse while I'm reading something, aggravates me so bad). I also tried to figure out where over an hour of my life disappeared to but at least I know I have yet another entry stored in my cache of worthless information. As I was nearing the end of my searches I saw a banner up top with a link to a "note" from the founder of Wikipedia and I decided to read that, too. Of course it was just them looking for money but did you know it costs 20 million dollars a year to run that site? Holy crap! And they get all of it, or at least that's what I gathered, from donors. This place(TFP) runs on less than 1,500 bux! This deserves another Holy Crap! I guess what I'm getting at is I don't exactly know how lost I would be without the Googles, Wikipedias and TFP's this lovely interweb has put at my fingertips so I think donating the only proper thing to do. Except for Google, they get their money from adverts. Keep the web advert free! Donate! __________________ pearls ain't free