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Jobs I find quite interesting:
- working as a criticality tester
- working as a fact checker at Wikipedia.
I hate rote learning - actually my brain isn't able to do this. This is why my life relies on Wikipedia.
Wikistuff
editWiki geography
edit{{coor d|57.2796|N|5.7385|W|}}
Looks like that: 57°16′47″N 5°44′19″W / 57.2796°N 5.7385°W. For additional information, consult Wikipedia:WikiProject_Geographical_coordinates
Important style guides and useful help
edit- meta:Help:Formula - for TeX markup in Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)
- Wikipedia:Manual of Style (China-related articles)
- Wikipedia:Userboxes
- Wikipedia:Template messages
- Wikipedia:Duplicate articles - use {{merge|OTHER ARTICLE}}
- Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism - to block
- Wikipedia:Requests for expansion
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting and Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub types
- Wikipedia:Footnotes - If citing something, put <ref> Reference </ref> after it. *If citation is missing, put {{fact}} for [citation needed]
- "{{dubious}}" for "[dubious – discuss]"
- {{Citation needed}} for [citation needed]
- Wikipedia:Refactoring talk pages
- Help:Interlanguage links en de fi etc.; Help:Interwiki linking one scope step further
- Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates
- Category:Disambiguation and redirection templates
- Category:Templates using ParserFunctions and m:ParserFunctions and m:Help:Magic words
- mw:Manual:Extensions, mw:Manual:Extensions and mw:Category:All extensions for useful markup extensions such as <source lang="php">
- Wikipedia:NavFrame and Wikipedia:Collapsible tables - frankly speaking, I love 'em
- How to find the deletion discussion of an article:
- the awkward way: look in the Deletion log to obtain date and time of a deletion, then look at Wikipedia:Archived delete debates near that time to see which edit regards the unlisting of the page, then view the previous version.
- the probably not always working easier way: directly go to Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ARTICLENAME
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Inline Templates
- See exFAT for an example of a strategy on how to separate "Notes" and "References" sections within an article
Interesting pages
edit- Special:Newimages
- http://tools.wikimedia.de/sixdeg/ — Play Six degrees of Wikipedia
- Wikipedia:Unusual articles
- Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians with articles and Template:Notable Wikipedian and Category:Notable Wikipedians - promis at Wikipedia
- Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (titles)#Capitalisation and Capitalization, this and this - how to capitalize song tracks correctly
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics and Wikipedia:WikiProject Electronics/How to draw SVG circuits using Xcircuit
- Wikipedia:Size in volumes
- Special:PrefixIndex - show all pages starting with <x>
- Wikipedia:Statistics, especially http://stats.grok.se/
- Category:Contents - where it all starts
Useful templates
editHave a look over at Wikipedia:Dispute templates, all in Wikipedia:Template messages/Disputes, and really all in Wikipedia:Template messages, especially Category:Wikipedia maintenance templates and Template:Article issues
- {{convertIPA}}
- {{RoughTranslation}}
- {{Expansion}} and its smaller brother {{Expandsect}}
- {{Notability}} - when an article lacks importance
- {{cquote}} for
“ | blah | ” |
- {{Unreferenced}} if an article or a section needs sources
- {{Original research}}
- {{advert}} for articles that read like advertisements
- {{citation needed}}
- {{Clarify span}}, e.g. {{Clarify span|This was stupid|date=April 2012}} for This was stupid[clarify]
- {{Citation needed span}}, e.g. {{Citation needed span|After roughly 30 minutes|date=April 2012}} for After roughly 30 minutes[citation needed]
- {{verify source}}
- {{US patent|6553180}}
- {{Cite patent|EP|1727416|application}} for all non-US patents
- {{disputed}}{{tl|
- {{elucidate}} - for statements whose purpose for being placed in the article at this place is not clear
- Questions?
- {{tl}} for presenting templates (quite meta, eh?)
- {{DISPLAYTITLE:Some title}} - for giving an article an individual name
- {{Contradict}} and {{Contradict-inline}} - for articles contradicting themselves
- List of inline tags: Template:Inline tags
- {{Redirect}} - for pointing out other articles a user might actually look for
- {{Relevance note}}
- {{Examples}}
- {{db-move}} - for example for articles that have wrong capitalization
āáǎà ōóǒò ēéěè īíǐì ūúǔù ǖǘǚǜ êü
The tone mark is added to the vowel in the syllable that comes first in this sequence: a o e i u ü. For example, ai takes the tone mark on a, and ia also takes the tone mark on a. The only exception is iu which takes the tone mark on u.
Wikitables
editTables are awkward <pre> {| class="wikitable" |- ! rowspan="3" colspan="2" | Table ! colspan ="4" | Finals |- ! colspan="2" | Two chars ! colspan="2" | Foo farce |- ! a !! b !! c !! d |- ! rowspan="5" | Initials ! e | eon || eton || email || ems |- ! f | fritz || fratz || flixx || fluxx |- ! g | grid || gred || gerda || great |- ! h | hrid || hred || herda || hreat |- ! i | irid || ired || ierda || ireat |}
Turns out to be:
Table | Finals | ||||
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Two chars | Foo farce | ||||
a | b | c | d | ||
Initials | e | eon | eton | ems | |
f | fritz | fratz | flixx | fluxx | |
g | grid | gred | gerda | great | |
h | hrid | hred | herda | hreat | |
i | irid | ired | ierda | ireat |
Semantic algorithm on how to put up wikitables
start with
{| class="wikitable" |-
count the number of total rows and total columns of your table. keep always in mind that the number of columns for each line has to add up with your total number of columns. when adding up, count both the actual entries made with "| string || string2 || string3" (that would make three columns) AND the number of spanning fields made with "| colspan="5" | string" (that would make five columns ... so altogether this makes eight columns.
identify the upperleft field. look at how many y = rows and x = columns it spans if x or y is different from 1 than type
| rowspan="y" colspan="x" | string
where string is the string you want to place in this field. if the first row has more fields, than input
| secondfield || thirdfield || fourthfield
note that this row is a child of your field "string"
to start the next row, type
|-
note that all following lines will be row children of your "string" field until you have reached a number of y rows. after this a number of x columns will start which you have been specifing with rowspan="x"
go on for so until you finished all your rows. note that while you do not need to specify how many rows your table has, the number of columns always has to be the same for each row. this is due the fact that wikitable's syntax works by first demanding a row, than by specifing this line's columns.
end your table with
|}
if you want to highlight a field, put "!" instead of "|" at the beginning of this fields line. to "unlight" the following fields seperate them from the highlighted with a newline. rember that for the atomic field size, you don't need to specify colspan and rowspan.
For more help, see Help:Table
Cols
edit
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Categories and subcategories
editIf you want to let category A be a subcategory of B, then put "[[Category:B]]" on the site of [[Category:A]].
Comments
editdo it like this: <!-- -->
Articles created
editMerge discussion template
editI propose to merge article A and article B. The reason is that both articles fail to differentiated themselves from each other.
In case you see good reasons to keep the articles separate, then please # discuss these reasons here, # modify both articles in such a way that precise and different definitions are given, # modify both articles in such a way that both articles explicitly mention each other and show the difference between both terms, # remove the merge templates from both articles.
Thanks, Abdull
2do
edit- List of code pages
- Y-delta transform - explanation why it's like that
- Milestones in computer gaming history
- I, Robot (arcade game), being the first game with filled 3D polygonal graphics
- Crossbow (video game), being the first game with fully digitized sound
- Chiller (video game), considered for being the most gratuitously violent console game when it was released
- Hard Head, trashiest game ever produced.
- Galaga, believed to be the first game to have bonus stages
- Defender (game), being the very first example of a game featuring a "virtual environment" in that the game world was larger than what could be displayed on the screen at any given time and events would continue off-screen and could have direct consequence to the gameplay.
- Adventure (Atari 2600), being the first action-adventure computer game and being the first game to contain an easter egg
- Mystery House, being the first adventure game to ever contain graphics
- Moon Patrol, one of the earliest scrolling shooters and the first game to feature parallax scrolling.
- Tempest (game), being the first game to introduce color vector graphics, progressive level design and the continue
- Colossal Cave Adventure, the first computer adventure game
- Battlezone, being the first 3D arcade game
- OXO, being the first computer game
- Sweet Home (video game), first survival horror game
- Kasumi Ninja, one of the first video games in history to allow parents to censor the level of violence allowed in the game
- Stonkers, first Real-time strategy game
- Alpha Waves, considered to be the first 3D platform game
- Jumping Flash!, considered to be the first truly 3D platform game
- Tennis for Two - one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display, using analog electronics
- Spacewar! - one of the earliest known digital computer games, first shoot'em up
- Galaxy Game, the earliest known coin-operated noncommercial computer game
- Computer Space (arcade game), the earliest known coin-operated commercial computer game
- Gotcha (arcade game), first maze game and first game to raise a controversy due to sexual aspects
- Death Race, first game to raise a controversy due to violence
- ChuChu Rocket! - first major video game console online game
- Rip-Off - first arcade game to feature cooperative gameplay
- Batsugun - first manic shooter
- Dragon Buster - one of the first arcade games to feature a life meter
- Jurassic Park: Trespasser - first game to feature a world completely influenced by classical mechanics and also the first game to use ragdoll physics
- X (1992 video game) - first 3D game released for a portable system in Japan
- DONKEY.BAS - arguably a predecessor of all IBM PC games
- Dungeon (video game) - first game to employ line of sight graphics displays
- Gran Trak 10 - first ROM-based arcade game, first game using sprites, first game with a cabinet resembling a car interface.
- Quake (video game) - first computer game to use lightmaps to augment rendering.
- Lode Runner - one of the first games to include a level editor.
- Jet Set Willy - one of the first games to use copy protection
- Pinball Construction Set - first entry in the class of construction-set based computer games
- Empire (PLATO) - first first networked multiplayer arena shooter-style game
- XXX
- UDE people:
- Template Guantanamo Bay alphabet: Camp Delta, Camp Echo, Camp Iguana, Camp X-Ray
- Smoke trail and Smoke trails. take http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Usa/Tests/SmokeTrails.html ... compare to Rope trick effect
- List of nuclear explosions ... see http://www.ga.gov.au/oracle/nukexp_form.jsp
- Put up photo of that nasty red stuff on Dubai corners - could be Betel nut.
- Screen Mate/Screen mate: "Stray Sheep Poe / Poo and Mikan Seijin / Orange (owned by Kazuma Shirasaki) ... see: http://www.villagecenter.co.jp/wanted/
- delete McCarthy 91 function?
- Circular definition, Circular reference, Circular dependency, Circular argument all look like describing the same thing
- header connector with photos... in ISP and PCBs (see AVR Dragon)
Lookats
editComputers
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Computer graphicsedit
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Securityedit
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Engineering, Management, and Processedit
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Miscellaneousedit
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Typography
edit- IJ (letter) - that letter from Dutch
- Bi-directional text - issues on putting left-to-right and right-to-left writing systems together
- Windows Glyph List 4 - include all these characters in your font
- Mojibake — messed up character encodings
- Magnetic ink character recognition — magnetic letters on cheques to automatically OCR them.
- Fonts that can easily be read by computers, sorted by rising coolness: OCR-H, OCR-B, OCR-A, E-13B/E13-B and CMC-7... a really good explanation can be found at http://www.decodeunicode.org/w3.php?viewMode=block&ucHex=2440
- Mapping of Unicode characters
- Yokogaki and tategaki - Japanese writing style
- Punctuation#East_Asian_punctuation - Conventions of Chinese punctuation
- Japanese typographic symbols
- Cangjie method and Wubi method
- HTML
- ⌘ - I always forget this character's name!
- ¶ - pilcrow
- Good fonts for Unicode coverage: TITUS Cyberbit Basic and Code2000 and other free software Unicode fonts
- Text figures - when numbers go up and down in a font
- Caduceus and Rod of Asclepius
- TeX, LaTeX, for graphics and diagrams use PSTricks
- DIN 1451 and FE-Schrift - german car number plates fonts
- Text figures - jumping numbers
- Windows code page, especially Windows-1252. Compare it to ISO/IEC 8859-1 (latin1), child of Multinational Character Set
- Soft hyphen, hard return, soft return, non-breaking space
- Shift Out and Shift In characters
- Precomposed character
- SBCS, DBCS... MBCS! ... graphic character... bla
- Fullwidth form - why English text in Japanese websites looks so spacey
- Japanese gothic typeface, regular script and Ming (typeface) - east-asian fonts
- Fallback font
- ☞
- Estimated sign: ℮
- Numeric character reference
- Air quotes, scare quotes and quotation mark, non-English usage
- No symbol
- Pull quote - popups
- Sentence spacing - an article about void; the poster child of all typography-related debates
- Above the fold
- Ink trap
Philosophy
editGeography
edit- Mamayev Kurgan
- Global city
- List of lists of populous areas
- Thirty most populous cities in the world
- List of metropolitan areas by population
- Largest European metropolitan areas, Largest urban areas of the European Union, Largest cities of the European Union by population (urban areas look at areas with buildings not farther away than 2000 meters.
- United States metropolitan area
- List of metropolitan areas by population
- List of islands
- Carta Marina
- Marquesas Islands - the island group farthest from any continent in the world
- UN geoscheme
- Gallery of sovereign-state flags
- GSHHS, Vector Map, TIGER and Digital Chart of the World - free downloadable GIS databases
- OpenStreetMap - adds to the above
- Lake Karachay - you won't want to have a swim here
- Lijiang River - Chinese postcard picture river
- Electronic waste in Guiyu - Chinese postcard picture city
- Akihabara - electronics city
- Friendly Floatees
Social sciences
edit- Blissymbols
- Voiceless dental fricative and Voiced dental fricative - se two most hardestest sings sere are in English pronunciation. I'm always confusing them with the voiced alveolar fricative.
- Small world phenomenon
- Chinese fire drill
- Radio taiso - workout on radio
- Shriners - eh?
- Gratis versus Libre
- Year Without a Summer
- Capsule hotel
- Pluralistic ignorance, Social proof, Social loafing, Diffusion of responsibility
- Chimping - the act of getting on a photographer's nerves by asking "Oh, can I take a look at the picture you just took of me?"
- Camel racing - child abuse
- Category:Pejorative terms for people
- Health claims on food labels
- Heckler
- Islamic toilet etiquette
- Phone tag
- Breeching (boys)
- Gay lisp
- Stereotype threat
Language
edit- Acrostic
- Chinese language
- Hànyǔ Shǔipíng Kǎoshì - HSK... the Chinese TOEFL
- List of languages by number of native speakers
- List of endangered languages - oh!
- List of extinct languages - ooooh!
- List of revived languages - wohoo!
- High German consonant shift
- Beijing Language and Culture University - publisher of Hanyu Jaocheng book (汉语教程)
- Pinyin table - let's see how people start to deface my table :)
- Chinese measure word
- Tone sandhi
- Xiandai Hanyu changyong zibiao - list of most common characters in Modern Chinese
- List of blacklisted keywords in the People's Republic of China
- Japanese language
- English language
- List of redundant expressions
- List of common misspellings in English
- List of commonly confused homonyms
- List of frequently misused English words
- List of English words with disputed usage
- English language learning and teaching - master it. Anti-pattern: Non-native pronunciations of English... Accent reduction and english phonology
- American and British English differences
- German Smoking is a false friend of English smoking jacket. To say the German word in English, say tuxedo or black tie.
- Pronunciation respelling for English - explains the pronunciation rules of Merriam-Webster's etc.
- English orthography
- English pronunciation of Greek letters
- Pronunciation of English th
- Eskimo words for snow
- Snowclone and phrasal template
- Lists of etymologies
- Technobabble
- Prettyprint
- Baby talk
- Dead metaphor
- Teh
- Code-switching and non-convergent discourse - using two or more languages in a discussion
- Garden path sentence - parsing language can be hard and entertaining
- List of false friends - great list, deleted forever... see Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of false friends
- Cupertino effect - definately becomes defiantly
- Text simplification
- Dental clicks - misunderstandings between Germans and Lebaneses
- Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
- Use–mention distinction
- Vowel diagram
- Valspeak and high rising terminal - you know, when the voice goes up, like... duh.
- Spelling of disc
- Scunthorpe problem
- Cross-linguistic onomatopoeias
- Auto-antonym - an article I should overlook
- Minced oath
- Purple prose
- Duress code - "thanks, I'm fine"
- Stylometry
- Hyperforeignism
Psychology
edit- Klismaphilia
- Prosopagnosia
- Zeigarnik effect
- Paruresis - can't pee
- Pareidolia - seeing faces in everything
- Chicken hypnotism
- Social loafing - why I hate group work most of the time
- Wink - *bliiiink*
- Uncanny valley - robots are weird
- Handwaving - the last resort to fall back to when running out of arguments
- Train of thought
- Name-dropping
- Chromostereopsis
- Wrap rage
- Pet peeve
- Veblen good
- Tip of the tongue
- Social proof and halo effect
- Subitizing - counting up to 4 immediately
- Barberpole illusion
- List of buzzwords
- Fist pump and finger gun
- Thatcher effect
- Alief (belief)
- Ikea Effect
- Impostor syndrome
- Escapism
- Rhyme-as-reason effect
- Anchoring
- Self-licensing
- Co-rumination - when someone talks about their problems over and over again without any progress
- Fear of missing out
- Placebo button and illusion of control
- Spotlight effect - why everyone is looking at you
- Chronostasis
- Manspreading
- Mansplaining
- Brownie points
Politics
edit- eu, you say? Clipperton Island, Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean, and now, it's getting really hard: Special member state territories and their relations with the EU
- List of political epithets
- Islam and clothing: Chador, Abaya, Burqa, Niqab, Hijab
- List of countries
- Anthem without a title
- Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
- Political status of Taiwan
- EURion constellation
- Outer Space Treaty, especially Extraterrestrial real estate
- List of countries' copyright length
- Greenwash - companies' blah blah about being environment-friendly
- Richard Nixon mask
- Euromyth
- Sound recording copyright symbol - ℗
- Filter bubble
- Miranda warning
- Brinkmanship
Arts
edit- Devil sticks
- Clip show
- List of hats and headgear
- Kawaii
- American Gothic - that frightening image with that couple
- William Hogarth
- Non sequitur (absurdism)
- Droodle
- Streamline Moderne
- Bliss (image) - aaah, thank God we have Wikipedia and people discussing Windows desktop backgrounds
- Nihonga and Ukiyo-e, especially commons:Category:Ichiyusai Hiroshige - Japanese art
- Category:Jewish religious clothing - Jewish couture
- Squigglevision
- Dogs Playing Poker
- Chip art
- Ron Mueck - hyperrealistic huge characters
- List of colors, X11 color names, web colors
- Kaikai Kiki - Japanese designers
- Chiaroscuro - something I like about old paintings
- Parterre - hedge gardens
- Lineography - only one line
- Pen spinning
- Stippling and hedcut
- Droste effect and strange loop
- The Morphology of Desire by Robert Arnold - morphed romance novel pictures
- International Symbol of Access
- DOT pictograms
- Drop shadow
- Craquelure - cracks in old paintings
- Photographic mosaic
- Veduta, capriccio (art), and staffage. All you need for a 17th century painting
- Festoon
- Epigraph (literature) - annoying quotations from other works at the beginning of a chapter which are supposedly put there to "set a tone", but are merely put there by the author to make the impression that he or she is literate.
- Forced perspective
- Giuseppe Arcimboldo - fruitfaces
- Syd Mead - visual futurist
- View of the World from 9th Avenue
- Cyclorama (theater)
- Chukka boot
- Dodging and burning
- Deborah Azzopardi - that SSHH...! painting
Architecture
edit- Frank Lloyd Wright
- Delta Works - Hollandse dam
- Googie architecture
- Novelty architecture
- B of the Bang
- McMansion, tract housing and snout house
- Megachurch
- Paifang - chinese entrance archway
- Corian - multishape material
- SnowCastle of Kemi
- Bandstand
- Runit dome or Cactus dome on Runit Island within Enewetak Atoll - on site of test Cactus of Operation Hardtack
- Gabion
- Sanzhi UFO houses
- Kowloon Walled City
- Holdout (architecture)
- Project Cybersyn
Media
edit- Night Trap
- Noozles
- List of punk genres
- Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004 - it's like half of the island's population raped the other half.
- Don LaFontaine - the trailer voice
- Where's Wally?
- Tokenism
- Template:3d glasses
- Walla - background voice noise
- Chad (graffiti)
- Anime music video - for some reason, nerds like to combine music and anime
- List of films with similar plots
- Intentionally blank page
- Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii - Color BW photos
- PythagoraSwitch - Japanese kids TV with Rube Goldberg devices
- Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting - knowledge crawlers
- Halloween documents - "kill OSS"
- Morse code in popular culture - reverse messages are everywhere!
- Nuclear War Survival Skills
- Canary trap
- Reboot (continuity)
- The Adventures of Pete & Pete
- Corpsing and breaking character
- Out of character vs. in character
- Curtain call
- Seminal work
- Keep Britain Tidy - waste logo
- Poster child
- My Secret Identity
- Brain dump
- Book design
- Flyposting - annoying poster spam in the streets
- Marginalia - whatever media comes into my hands, gets them... wikis, books, lecture notes...
- Fung Wan - Hong Kong manga
- Peanut gallery, full of hecklers
- Registration black
- Courthouse Square - where many movies are filmed
- Advertorial
- Meta-joke
- Library binding and buckram
- Cartogram - morphed maps
- Clip show
- Belarusian
- Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure
- Obi (publishing) - small sleeves around Japanese CDs
- J-card - big sleeves inside CD packages
- Link bait
- Bookbinding#Spine_titling - book spine up to down or down to up?
- Pop-up book
- Printer's key
- The Mysterious Tadpole by Steven Kellogg
- Voice procedure and procedure word - *roger, wilco*
Nature
edit- Lyrebird - the bird that can mimic any sound it wants... and Loon - the most annoying bird... and Kookaburra - "muhahahah"
- Supernumerary nipple
- Fainting goat
- Petrichor - rain smell
- Blue skies research
- Atmospheric river
- Pigeon intelligence
- Container garden
Music
edit- Auditory illusion: Shepard tone. Others: for spectrogram images, see spectrogram.
- ADSR envelope
- Funiculì Funiculà - tralali und tralalaaaaa .... and: Tarantella Napoletana
- Hava Nagila and Hevenu shalom alechem
- Reaktor - cool sounds
- Interesting instruments and percussions: Vibraslap, Güiro, Cuíca (that Samba squeaky sound)
- Follow the bouncing ball
- I Am Sitting in a Room
- Jarabe tapatío/Mexican Hat Dance - Mexican stock melody
- Patience and Prudence - Tonight You Belong To Me — track from the German eBay television ad
- Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music
- Chime (Macintosh)
- Learning music by ear
- SPARS code - my kind of music is DDD
- Music visualization
- Liner notes
- Body percussion
- Blast beat
- Bar-line shift
- Ostinato
- Rhythm changes
- Lament bass
- Extended techniques
- Bitcrusher
- DJ digital controller and DJ software
- Timeline of recordings with a flanging effect - Wikipedia, I love you
- Hoover sound - Asi-Sound
- Stringed instrument tunings
- Wolf-whistling
- Slide whistle
- Ballade pour Adeline
- Vinyl-related
- Vanity label
- Hang (instrument) - play on these as a street performer to get attention
- Yeah! Woo! - overused sample
- Death growl
- Shave and a Haircut - that comic music ending
- Chicken Dance
- Symphony No. 5 (Beethoven) - duh duh duh duuuuuh ... DUH DUH DUH DUUUUUUH
- Word painting and Mickey Mousing
- Music at sporting events, e.g. charge (fanfare) and charge (bugle call)
Biology
edit- Photic sneeze reflex
- Doxylamine is a anticholinergic, that's what makes you feel drowsy
- Achondroplasia - the little-people gene defect
- Valsalva maneuver - makes your ears go pop
- Strabismus & amblyopia - eyes are whiggy-whiggy
- Rhinitis medicamentosa - nose spray addicts
- Cortical reaction - why there can only be one sperm
- Kwashiorkor - big belly due to malnutrition
- Syndactyly - fingers and toes fused together
- Primary production
- Chromatophore
- Ketosis, Ketostix, fatty acid metabolism and muscle atrophy - if you want to loose weight and keep the muscles
- Presbycusis - loosing the ability to hear high-frequency tones
- Salsola - Western movie stock item
- Dewclaw
- Demodex mite - we're all infected by them
- Galvanic Vestibular Stimulation - making people to robots
- Brownout (medical) - fainting vision when standing up too fast
- Anatomical terms of location
- Brain freeze
- Giant isopod
- Pando (tree) - largest living organism?
- Spermatic cord, inguinal canal, testicular vein, testicular artery and pampiniform plexus
- Love handles vs muffin top
- List of long-living organisms
- Globster - dead meat on beaches
- Electro Muscle Stimulation - muscles@home
- Miller–Urey experiment - Life on Earth is an experiment's byproduct!
- Nasal sebum
- Eigengrau
- Olfactory fatigue
- Agar plate
- Startle reaction and prepulse inhibition
- Schmidt Sting Pain Index
- Bone conduction - why we hear our voices deeper ourselves than others do.
- Genetics related
- The Genographic Project - find out about your genetic roots
- Knockout mouse
- GloFish
- Cat coat genetics
- Genealogical DNA test: human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup, Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic groups, and list of haplogroups of historical and famous figures
- Reference genome - COTS genes
- Null allele - "gene version does not compute"
- Nucleic acid notation
- fDNA codon table(nucleotide³) → proteinogenic amino acid
- proteinogenic amino acidm → peptide
- peptiden → polypeptide
- polypeptiden → protein
- Mutation rate
- Blue field entoptic phenomenon
- Bristol Stool scale
- Gymnocalycium mihanovichii
- Florigen
- Chemotaxis - a mechanism for cells to know where to grow
- Myostatin
- Ballast water discharge and the environment
- U.S. National Tick Collection
- Polydactyly in early tetrapods
- Pain in babies
- Kuru (disease) - getting shaky when eating human
- 52-hertz whale
Physics
edit- Effervescence
- Cheerios effect and brazil nut effect
- Crepuscular rays - sun rays
- Penumbra
- National Ignition Facility - quite strong laser
- Haidinger's brush - we can see polarized light
- Nucleation
- Point charge, point mass, point particle, test particle, test charge
- Space-filling model, ball-and-stick model - how to represent molecules
- Dimensional analysis
- Conversion of units
- Astronomical seeing
- Frigorific mixture - why ice melts in contact with salt
- Inverted pendulum
- Antibubble
- Asperity
- Vortex rings such as bubble ring and smoke ring
- Goiânia accident - what a nice blue glow
- Tears of wine
- Speckle pattern - diffuse laser effect
- Terminal velocity
- List of unexplained sounds
- [[Meniscus]
- Diffraction grating
- Chain fountain
Mathematics
edit- RSA Factoring Challenge - we want money!
- Googolplex, Tetration, Knuth's up-arrow notation
- Long and short scales - "billion" (modern English, short scale) or "Billionen" (old British English and German, long scale)
- Mathematics of paper folding and Knot theory — today there is everything in mathematics
- Mathematical font issues
- Blackboard bold — that is the font one uses to denote number sets like natural numbers or real numbers
- Computer Modern — the default font used in documents typesetted in TeX
- AMS Euler — another popular math font
- Concrete Roman — prefer that one instead of Computer Modern if you want to be cool and smart
- Accuracy and precision - did you know there is a difference?
- A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates - this truly is a bestseller
- Taxicab geometry
- Tetration - what comes after exponentiation.
- Floor function and truncation - cut off that numbers
- Golden ratio base
- Quincunx - five sorted
- Integration by substitution explains why there has to be used the determinant for multiple variable integrals
- List of canonical coordinate transformations
- Volume and surface elements in different co-ordinate systems
- Relation (mathematics) - maybe someone was able to explain all the abstruse characters such as ≼
- Mathematical notation
- Conic section and eccentricity (mathematics)
- Partial derivative - a discussion about where the ∂ comes from - either from Greek δ or Cyrillic д (which is the cursive form of д).
- Computational complexity of mathematical operations - there are better things than school math
- Classification of finite simple groups - one monster theorem
- Q.E.D. and tombstone (typography)
- Nonconstructive proof
- Poisson summation formula - I like the proof
- Principal value
- Inequality
- Curse of dimensionality and combinatorial explosion
- Gomboc - only one stable equilibrium
- Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates
- Notation for differentiation: Leibniz's notation, Newton's notation
- Position vector and displacement vector
- Euclid's Elements - read this classic
- Complement (set theory) for "set minus", or \
- Principia Mathematica - read this classic
- Vinculum (symbol) - lines in expressions
- Domain coloring - one way to graph complex functions
- Set-builder notation
- Proof by intimidation
- Line-plane intersection and similar articles
- Abuse of notation
- Fáry's theorem - planar graphs can always be drawn with straight lines and without crossings
- Orders of approximation
- Necessary and sufficient conditions
- Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae and this, this, this and this - quick references
- Ham sandwich theorem - cut the world in half
- Squircle
- Set notation
- Extensional definition, enumerative definition, intensional definition, and ostensive definition: some kinds of set definitions
- Liar paradox
- Principle of bivalence - just true or false. That's the secret behind it. Nothing in between. UPDATE...WORK IN PROGRESS: Two-valued logic systems =? bivalent logic systems... versus multi-valued logic systems such as any of the ternary logic systems
- List of logic symbols
- QED manifesto
- Calculator input methods
- Polynomial remainder theorem
- Sampling bias
- Survivorship bias
Technical
edit- Unusual types of gramophone record
- Resin identification code - recycling numbers
- Crawler-transporter
- List of strange units of measurement
- Periodic table (Chinese)
- Mylar
- Pitch drop experiment
- Bubble wrap
- Active Denial System - frying people
- High dynamic range imaging - evenly ligthed pictures
- Bokeh - out-of-focus
- CIE 1931 color space
- Philips PM5544 - test card used in Germany
- Echo satellite - sphere in the air
- Axonometric projection and orthographic projection
- Therac-25 - radiation machine
- Mecanum wheel - move any way you want
- ISO 31 and Variables commonly used in physics - finally some order
- Preferred number - system to find a value that sticks
- Geneva drive - interesting mechanical drive
- Bridge digital camera
- Tubular pin tumbler lock - insecure locks
- Dichroic filter
- Vignetting
- Pulfrich effect - why TV 3D glasses work
- Organizationally Unique Identifier - everyone should have one
- Lace card and black fax
- Bell curve grading
- Banked turn / Cant (road/rail)
- Demon core
- Certification mark:
- Noise (video) and noise (radio)
- Redline - red area on your car's tachometer
- Self-replicating machine
- Goertzel algorithm - to detect DTMF tones
- Flip-disc display, cf. split-flap display
- Design by committee - one reason I dislike most work in group at university
- Power symbol
- Countries in International Organization for Standardization
- Hype cycle
- Knurling
- Course Reference Number (CRN)
- Triple modular redundancy - separation of powers is an application of it
- Exploded view
- List of IEC Technical Committees
- Skunkworks project - best things to work in
- Ready-to-assemble furniture
- Anti-scaling agent - "Entkalken"
- Bucket brigade
- Malfunction Indicator Lamp
- Analogical models
- Scanimate
- Function (engineering)
- Keyring - loop things on keychains
- Twist tie - metal-plastic strip binders
- Turnstile
- Pizza saver
- Insulation-displacement connector
- Drill bit shank and chuck (engineering)
- Oral inflation valve
- Barrette and bobby pin - fixing one's hair
- Circle cotter - keyring
- Talurit swaged sleeve
- Printer steganography
- Spherical cow
- Aglet - ends of shoelaces
- Bungee cord
- Unstructured Supplementary Service Data - *101# in mobile phones
- NASA spin-off
- Bracketing, especially focus stacking
- In-flight entertainment], especially Airshow and JetMap
- Skeuomorph
- Artificial gills (human)
- Spirit duplicator - maybe we had one of these at my elementary school? Made yummy-smelling copies
- Carbonless copy paper
- List of emerging technologies
- Tesla valve
- Sea-based X-band Radar
- List of multiple discoveries
- Bathtub curve and burn-in
- Sip-and-puff
- Selective yellow - why some French cars had yellow headlights
- Design rule for Camera File system - DCIM directory in photo-capable appliances
- Low-background steel
- Dual-use technology - "sure, that motor will be used for civil technology only"
Electronics
edit- low-pass filter, opposite: high-pass filter... band-pass filter, opposite Band-stop filter
- Numbers station - whacko! A frequency list can be found at The Lincolnshire Poacher
- Speak & Spell (game) - that computer voice you hear in a lot of tracks
- Appliance classes - explains what the double square ( ) on some electronics means
- DC connector - the ends on power supplies
- IC power supply pin - VCC and stuff
- Double subscript notation - VCB and stuff
- Zero-order hold - signal reconstruction
- IEC 60027 - standard for letter symbols to be used in electrical technology
- Texas Instruments SN76489 - nice sounds
- Line level - loudspeaker signal
- Rolling code - for your remote garage door opener
- Perfboard - for prototype soldering
- Circuit diagram and Schematic capture - logical view of electronics components interaction
- Circuit bending - doodling with electronics
- Ultra High Definition Video
- GSM localization
- EnOcean and self-powered equipment - batteries not included
- Write Only Memory
- RF connector you've got to know: BNC connector, TV Aerial Plug (European cable TV) and F connector
- Biasing (electronics)
- Antistatic wrist strap, antistatic agent and antistatic bag
- Light bulbs: Edison screw, Bipin, MR16
- NES-on-a-chip
- Epoxy blob - black gummi blobs on PCBs
- Soft microprocessor
- Electrical circuit vs. electronic circuit
- Transistor models and semiconductor device modeling
- Microstrip and signal trace - transmission lines on PCBs
- List of sensors - good for Arduino projects and such
- Discrete device and discrete circuit
- Field-programmability
- Computer module
- Electrical bonding
- Power cycling
- Topology (electronics)
- Dot crawl
- On-die termination
- Edge connector
- Twist-on wire connector
- Multiplexed display
- Flexible electronics
- Kapton
- TV pickup
Business
edit- Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers
- Foxconn - produces everything
- Trial balloon
- Planned obsolescence
- Non-recurring engineering
- Stealth mode
- All rights reserved
- List of company name etymologies
- PayPal Mafia
- Boondoggle (project)
- Private label - Aldi
- Platform evangelism
- Endcap
- Shill
- Job shadow
- Peter Principle
- Up or out and vitality curve
Pop
edit- List of fads and trends
- Glo Worm
- Lolo ball
- Coonskin cap
- Wacky wall walker
- Starcom: The U.S. Space Force - magnetic toys that make that "zzzzz" sound
- Jelly shoes
- Battle Beasts - temperature sensitive toys, had shark and hare
- Chattery Teeth - a wind-up toy
- Fashion
- Dolphin shorts
- Shutter Shades - dislikable
- Frosted tips
- Phat pants
- Rubik's Magic
- Wifebeater (shirt)
- Gravity hill
- Zip-line
- Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots
- Drinking bird
- Cymbal-banging monkey toy
- Sunless tanning
- Kangoo Jumps and Powerskip - boing!
- List of "largest" articles
- Staring contest
- Amusement park accidents and everything in Category:Amusement park accidents
- LCARS and Hollywood operating system - one day, we will have computers like these
- Popping, tricking, street stunts. Cool moves
- Varsity letter - varsity jackets (or letterman jackets) are these American high school jackets
- Blobject
- Zome - sticks and balls toy
- Marbleworks
- Dancing baby
- Jocelyn Wildenstein - Catfacewoman
- Goofy holler and other things from Category:In-jokes
- Plastic flamingo
- Motivational poster
- Say cheese
- Child harness - pwnd kids
- Happy Corner and Kancho - when friends get too physical
- Blowing a raspberry
- Navel lint and pocket lint
- Fuzzy dice
- Betel nut beauty
- Pin Art
- Magic sand
- Jungle gym
- Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
- Wham-o magic window
- Casio digital diary
- Silly String
- Paper fortune teller
- Slap bracelet
- Space hopper
- Jungle gym
- Batusi - 60s v-finger dance
- Rubber band ball
- Snake cube
- Fake security camera
- Magnet Space Wheel
- Drug paraphernalia
- Refrigerator magnet and Magnetic Poetry
- Phone strap
- Hoberman sphere
- Paddle ball
- Matkot - "Beach paddle ball"
- Stickle bricks - Brutalist construction toy
- Which Witch? (board game) - "Das Geisterschloss"
- Fireman's carry
- Oral inflation valve
- Toilet paper orientation, hotel toilet-paper folding, towel animal
- Bric-a-brac
- Rider (theater) - artists are divas
- Scleral lens - pop eye lenses
- List of common misconceptions
- Pince-nez - eyeglasses without temples
- Barack Obama "Hope" poster
- Roller coaster elements
- Desire path
- Timeline of the future
- Sogen Kato
- Keep Away - Schweinchen in the Mitte
- Synthetic ice
- Production baby
- Squirmles
- Shishi-odoshi - often seen in Animes
- Pullback motor and friction motor
- Ball pit
- Pocket dialing
- Eye popper - jumping rubber thing
Cuisine
edit- Stinky tofu
- Arare - Japanese rice crackers
- Liquid Smoke
- Molecular gastronomy
- Safrole - makes your root beer taste yummy
- Price Look-Up codes - stickers on apples
- Amezaiku - Japanese candy art
- Liquorice allsorts
- Acquired taste
- Tofu skin
- Mock duck and wheat gluten (food)
- Stir frying and wok hei
- Granola
- Food irradiation and ultraviolet germicidal irradiation
- Roadkill cuisine
- Big League Chew
- Pungency - different kinds of spicyness
- Zest (ingredient) and twist (cocktail garnish)
- Kopi Luwak - brown coffee
- Pişmaniye - Turkish cotton candy
- Wakame (for Goma Wakame)
- Fake food in Japan
- Narutomaki
- Garlic breath
- Jin deui
- Microwave popcorn
Medical
edit- Orchidometer
- ECA stack
- Foreign body
- Scintillating scotoma - flashes in my eyes
- Rug burn - why I removed all carpets from my home
- Alcohol flush reaction
- Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder
- Vitiligo
- Spinnbarkeit
- Alcohol rub
- Vacanti mouse
- Excess post-exercise oxygen consumption - maybe this is good for burning fat?
- Acetylseryltyrosylseryliso...serine - listen to this article
- Category:Genes by chromosome and Category:Rare diseases
- Hypomimia - what most EE students suffer from symptomatically
- Clinomorphism - condition caricature
- Cold urticaria - maybe I have these currently on my right foot?
- Low back pain - possibly because of shortened psoas major muscles (see snapping hip syndrome). Stretching should help.
- Blepharospasm - blinkblinkblink
- List of bestselling drugs
- Radithor
- Precordial catch syndrome - I'm a victim of this
- Obdormition
- Hemostat
- Teratoma - whoops, there's a tooth developing where it shouldn't
- Angular cheilitis - cracks in your lips' angles
- Hypnic jerk
- Hangnail
- Fidgeting
- Leukonychia - white spots on fingernails
- Acrochordon - little skin nipples
- Oligodynamic effect
- Tensor tympani muscle - when loud sounds make your ear pop
- Occlusion effect
- Torus mandibularis - these bony jaw bumps