>Re Wikipedia, I have softened my original skepticism about it. It is becoming a pretty decent reference. One shortcoming it still has was pointed out in something I read the other day: the recency effect. For example, soon after President Bush pardoned Scooter Libby, Libby's Wikipedia entry was longer than those of George Washington or William Shakespeare. > >I'm not sure how you go about injecting a degree of historical perspective given the basic model.
"Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice." -- Dave Barry