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Friday, October 29, 2010

215-word Fake Wikipedia Explanation of – Humanoid Robots

There are no humanoid robots worth noting. It is impossible to make a truly human-like robot. Stop looking for them, stop wondering about them, stop being paranoid.

They will not overthrow humanity because they do not exist. Even if they did exist, they would not be able to gain consciousness despite their intelligence. They would not be able to break their programming. They would not be able to design plans of subterfuge. They would not want to become the dominant species of planet Earth. Humans have wrecked the Earth and can keep it. Robots don’t want it. Because super-intelligent, evil robots aren’t real.

History:

None. Evil Humanoid Robots do not exist and therefore have no history.

Definitions:

Evil Humanoid Robots are the imaginations of nerds without girlfriends.

Actual Robots:

True, existing robots improve human life through their ability to perform menial tasks proficiently and allowing humans more leisure. These industrial robots also improve the consistency of products and lower the cost of products so that humans can be more productive and have more money to spend on other things.

Future Developments:

Nerds are always claiming to be on the brink of developing super-intelligent humanoid robots. This is false. Stop looking.

Problems Depicted in Popular Culture:

Lies. Paranoid delusions about the impossible.

Friday, October 22, 2010

215-word Fake Wikipedia Explanation of - Canada

While it isn’t true that the name CANADA came from citizens randomly throwing out letters in a meeting (“I like ‘c’, eh!” “I like ‘n’, eh!” “How about “d”, eh?), it is true that Canada is the least visited country with the lowest tourism rate in the world – even behind Azerbaijan unless you count US draft-dodgers.

It is known for majestic mountains, hockey, curling, being cold, cheap meds, and lousy neighbors. It is the birthplace of many famous musicians and actors/comedians but they refuse to take any of them back.
They are not an economic, military, or Olympic powerhouse but they are nice about it.

Canada claimed independence from England in 1982 when their parliament got together and called England a bunch of hosers for not “taking off” already. England shrugged, not realizing they still owned Canada anyway. Canada immediately joined the United Nations and was granted a permanent and lonely seat on a committee that no one thinks about – a fitting role for the gigantic country no one thinks about.


Today, Canada is poised to overtake the world one dose of the world’s nastiest cough syrup at a time.


Now it's your turn to write a fake Wikipedia explanation of CANADA . . .







Friday, October 15, 2010

215-word Fake Wikipedia Explanation of - Electrocution

Home 3D TelevisionElectrocution, or the act of being electrocuted, is simply the improving the attractiveness of females through electronic means. It derives from the attraction men feel toward women on TV or otherwise electronically transmitted. Scientists discovered that many men found the images of women reproduced on their TV screens (and later computer screens) were rated 10% cuter than those same women in real life. Thus the technique of making oneself more “cute” through electronic transmission was termed electrocution (“electro” from electron and “cution” from the George W. Bush dictionary – a shortened version of “cutification” – to improve looks).


It is contended that the term predates George W. Bush in dialectician circles but no one listens to nerds anyway.

History:

The history of electrocution technically predates TV. Photographs, while not electronic and not even originally captured by electronic devices, were the first reproductions of females to be rated more attractive than the model. However a term for this phenomenon wasn’t coined until much later. Gabriel Lippmann, one of the pioneers of color photography, attempted to coin the phrase “Interfering Attraction” based on his method of color reproduction. It was too science-y sounding for the general riffraff. The term “Lipp Looker” may have been a better choice.



Now it's your turn to write a fake Wikipedia explanation of ELECTROCUTION . . .