When I was growing up in the 1980s, a popular television show was MacGyver. It became silly after time, because whatever adventures he got himself into, he always could put together some home-made solution to save the day and “stick it” to the bad guys.
Now, you can see all the tricks up MacGyver’s sleeves through a Wikipedia article. A comprehensive (but not complete, evidently) list of all of his escapes and how he accomplished them.
This is not something you would ever see in a traditional encyclopedia, but I am sure this information has value, nonetheless.
August 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
I think that’s what Google was trying to do with Knol, btw. There’s lots of content that belongs -somewhere-, but there just wasn’t a place yet.