The Onion lists and discusses 12 surprisingly controversial topics at Wikipedia. [Tags: wikipedia onion]

Hanan Cohen spotted this at Last.fm:

When the artist is listed as ‘Undefined’ this is probably a poorly-tagged mp3.
Otherwise, Undefined is a Spanish progressive death metal band. The first Undefined EP is called Saturnism Unfolds and is avalaible to download at http://www.definethenoise.tk.
UnDeFiNeD is also a Belgian underground band, bringing a variety of urban styles

[Tags: undefined definitions humor ]

A: Probably this: How to organize Lego bricks.

(Thanks to Kevin Marks for the link.) [Tags: lego ocd organization messiness ]

Peter Van Dijck has set up a consulting company to help organizations organize their Web-based information in ways accessible to a world-wide community. Peter’s named his company 290s because that’s the “Other religions” category in the Dewey Decimal system.

Wordie started out as a joke - a site that was all tags and no content. Now it’s added tags. I have to run for a train, so I don’t have time to all into its loop of metareference, but John McGrath explains it all here.

It’s hilarious if you’re a classification nerd. If not, it’s merely very funny. (Thanks to Heather for the link.)

This video is very funny, if you're the type of Web 2.0 geek who finds "Quakr Oars" funny. (Thanks to BoingBoing.) [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous ]

JP Rangaswami points to a Wired interview with Josh Madell of Other Music, a NYC music store's site that'll sell you songs without restrictions on how you use what you've bought. Josh says, for example,:

The nice thing about selling digitally is that the space limitations are much less restrictive than at the physical store, where we constantly have to delete items for space reasons, and also you are never out of stock of an MP3. The thing about iTunes, which is by far the most successful digital store so far, is that despite the cool factor they have been able to hold onto, they are really closer to Best Buy than Other Music in terms of the shopping experience. That's great for some people, but we feel there is a real need for great indie download shops with a curated selection.

JP also points to a funny Other Music video that's an ad in the sense of making Other Music look as over-the-top horrible as possible. It is, as RageBoy comments, durn gonzo. [Tags: music drm other_music jp_rangaswami josh_madell digital_rights itunes everything_is_miscellaneous]

My blog, like your blog, has been trawled by some suspiciously large nets. For example, yesterday I received an invitation to join the Global Petroleum Club, which is not a customer consortium or for hobbyists, but is for "oil, gas and energy professionals." Since I am strictly an amateur, I will be declining the offer, with thanks.

A couple of messages down, I was invited to the Bathing Cultural Carnival 2007 in China. The message notes: "Cultural centers in various activities: bathing, sauna experience Museum, the Museum SPA life, health Museum springs, foot care settings health Museum, the Museum bathroom Fashion." I'm afraid I'm not going to be live-blogging that one. [Tags: everything_is_miscellaneous humor]

Discover magazine runs two letters this month that bring up two more problems with the International Astronomical Union’s criteria for planets. Jerry Svoboda points out that because Neptune’s orbit is crossed by Pluto, Neptune fails to “clear its zone,” thus failing one criterion for planethood. Brett Bochner argues (in a reductio ad absurdum sort of way) that Jupiter is 300 times larger than the Earth and is made almost entirely of gas, and thus shouldn’t be lumped with the Earth.

Fortunately, I have the solution.

Everyone knows the IAU’s tortured criteria were designed to give us back as many of the nine planets as possible. Even so, the IAU failed. At best we got eight planets and one dwarf. So, let’s skip all the weird distinctions and just declare the Solar System a constellation. After all, no one says that some other star really “deserves” to be part of Ursa Major even if it means the bear now becomes a unicorn. Nope, a constellation is what we say it is, and the same is now true for the nine planets of the Solar System.

Welcome back, Pluto!

[Tags: taxonomy everything_is_miscellaneous IAU planets pluto solar_system astronomy taxonomy]