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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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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Obverse of the Auto Dollar

... that a Chinese warlord put his car on coinage (pictured), in lieu of his own portrait?
... that the English actor Jude Law is actually named David, a result of his parents naming their children after their best friends?
... that a portrait was attributed to the wrong painter for many years, and the sitter was also misidentified?
... that an AI rendering of the Detroit Sign misled people into thinking that it would be larger than it actually is?
... that bricks laid in Flemish bond were a sign of wealth in colonial Virginia?
... that the communist trade unionist Ditto Pölzl was a member of all three provisional state governments of Styria in 1945?
... that when East Wake Academy opened, its two main school buildings were located four miles (6 km) apart in separate towns?
... that John White shot himself after it was discovered that he had plagiarized a speech by Aaron Burr?
... that within the mixed-reality mode of Homeworld: Vast Reaches, ships seem to fly around the player's room?