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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... that sucking lice (pictured) perforate their victims' skin with a pair of stabbers?
... that Davy Russell won a 2025 Scottish election despite being dubbed the "invisible man" by an opponent?
... that one historian considered the anachronisms of the historical novel The Rival Chiefs to be unproblematic because readers wanted "not accuracy but thrill"?
... that the developers of Ducks Ahoy! deliberately omitted violence from the game?
... that when being visited by an NFL scout, college football player Boyd Jones was acting as a coach since the normal coach was absent?
... that when a fan asked the developers of Door Kickers 2: Task Force North to "release the damn game", they did?
... that Indonesian legislator Alifuddin pushed for the passage of an anti-LGBT "Family Resilience" law in response to the publicization of an incest-fantasy Facebook group?
... that Racing Mount Pleasant sometimes asks concert audiences to sit instead of stand?
... that the roar of the Yeti from Doctor Who was made by slowing down the sound of a flushing toilet?