wikipedia

it is late, or it is early it just depends on your view.
i am listening to nine inch nails - trent is emoting into the night time and i am pretending that this multi-millionaire understands my pain, that together we share the same emotional trauma, then i realise that on balance there is little that is wrong with my life (but a big win on the lottery would be nice....)

i was going to mention that gorgeous george galloway's ebay auction has been sabotaged, the gorgeous one has jumped in and accused his political enemies of doing it, by putting in very very large bids of £150,000, when all they were expecting was a figure in the 10s of thousands of pounds (what who the fuck has that kind of money to spend on a dodgy old sweat top that 3g wore on tv..... )
as far as george is concerned people such as the new labour party, the tories, the usa senate, christopher hitchens are checking out ebay and putting in malicious bids. here is a man who had gotten caught up in his own press.
but as his aides never got back to me i consign 3g to the heap of my blog.

except it ties into the recent wikipedia controversy.
i occassonally use wikipedia, it's an interesting tool that can be useful in pointing you in the right direction in order to gaher information,
the interesting thing about wikipedia (19th most visited site on the internet - it comes a few places below my blog) is that it is run on open sources softeware this means that anyone can add to the wiki encyclopedia. and anyone can edit it. in this it is a great exemplar of the internet all this information out there and only so much that you can guarantee as being "true" (the bbbc and perhaps david icke being the two that spring to mind...)
so it was a bit of a shock to read that various senators in the USA have been "editing" their wiki pages. now you don't have to be a great student of human nature to realise that where they have been doing this that they have been doing it in their favour.
what is a little disturbing is that it has been democrat senators who seem to have been singled out for the dubious honour of trying to buff up their appearance.
still as it costs somewhere in the region of $15 miliion to run for senate you can see that once they get in they do not want to give it up easily.

in these times when we are all going on about the sanctity of the freedom of speech and a adjunctat to that would be the freedom of information, we are not only being bombard by more information than we could ever take in, but we are also being asked to try to sort out the good from the bad, the legitiamate from the puff piece.

makes my head hurt (it it could be the lack of sleep....)