User:Tlogmer

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I run a weblog about wikipedia. If you want me to write about a particular article/topic/concept/whatever, leave a note, or comment on a weblog post.

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Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

My name's Ben Yates; I'm a technical writer, student, and keyboardist from Ann Arbor.

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This user is a member of the Wikipedia Industrial Design Cartel.

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This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

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This user is a noder at Everything2.

This user runs macOS.

This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

So. I've been here since late 2003; I started the wikipedia articles Metrosexual and Hell, Michigan (and the wikibooks summary of Understanding Comics). Most of my stuff is elsewhere, though.

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Sachertorte

... that there was a legal battle over whether Sachertorte (pictured) should have one or two layers of sponge?
... that a Nevada radio station once had a show that played Tongan music?
... that the seat of Muchipara in the 1952 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election was won by just nine votes?
... that queen parasitic ants can lay their own eggs inside of a host's colony?
... that Jim Aldred, with nothing to do after the beach season ended, developed ice hockey in Portugal?
... that the Bernard Schwartz House was built after Schwartz saw a plan by Frank Lloyd Wright in Life magazine?
... that Peter Sprenger was the first Liechtensteiner to summit Mount Everest?
... that the 2nd-century BC Aramaic inscription of Yanouh is the first attested use of Aramaic as a public language in Mount Lebanon?
... that an Italian adage says that a fat pope follows a thin one?