I love Wikipedia.

I'm sure my usual critics will label this post as useless, or stupid, much like my posts about Kevin Costner and Canadian Murderers... but I don't care. I feel a need to profess my love for the greatest website, and information tool known to man: Wikipedia.

To begin, it marvels me that such a resource of endless information even exists. I find it entirely remarkable that people have come together on the net for something other than arguing about Kevin Smith movies and playing World of Warcraft, to not only create such a site, but maintain it with such fanatic consistency.

Today, I had a thought that I wanted to remember where I knew the actor Christopher Eccleston from. I'm rewatching the first season of Heroes on DVD, before the release of the second season of Heroes, and as you may recall he plays the part of Peter Petrelli's "mentor"... the Invisible Man. Imagine my surprise when Wikipedia was quick to inform me that DUH he played the Ninth Doctor, on one of my favorite shows, Doctor Who. With his costume and character on Heroes, I didn't recognize him at all. So that was cool, it answered my question. What came next was a little less expected. I've been a fan of the modern incarnation of Doctor Who, of which the 4th season just ended on Friday night on the Sci-Fi channel, but I was either not alive or not exposed to British television when the show was on in the 80s.

So, with the help of Wikipedia, I was able to read all about Doctor Who, filling in information gaps that have plagued me for the last few years. There were DOZENS of pages full of information about The Doctor and all this companions. For the sci-fi nerd inside of me, it was incredibly fulfilling. I can now call myself something of an information afficionado for Doctor Who.

Then, I saw a blurb about Joss Stone getting cast to portray Anne of Cleaves, on the Showtime hit show, The Tudors. I am also a fan of this show, and in my curiosity I decided I would once again peruse Wikipedia, this time for information about Henry the 8th, and his wives. Again, pages upon pages of information came across my screen, filling me in on all sorts of stuff I didn't know before.

I guess it's kinda dorky if you want to look at it that way, but there's just something really awesome about a database that HUGE, that has that much information in it. I mean, I only looked up information about TWO topics and I was seriously hooked. Was Wikipedia around when I was in High School? That would have been awesome!

DevonLohan.com should have it's own Wikipedia...

So, what are your thoughts on Wikipedia? Sound off in the comments and let me know if there's anything I should look up!

This is why I don't like Canadians OR Greyhound Buses!

This is some seriously fucked up shit!

PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Manitoba (AP) - A man aboard a Greyhound bus repeatedly stabbed and then decapitated a fellow passenger, witnesses said Thursday.

The man was arrested for the killing, which occurred Wednesday night aboard a bus traveling from Edmonton, Alberta, to Winnipeg, Manitoba, The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said in a statement.

Authorities declined to name the attacker and victim, and provided no other details about the attack.

But passenger Garnet Caton said the victim was stabbed dozens of times by the man sitting next to him. The passenger then severed the man's head with a large knife.

"We heard this bloodcurdling scream and turned around, and the guy was standing up, stabbing this guy repeatedly, like 40 or 50 times," Caton said from a hotel in Brandon, Manitoba, where he and other passengers had been taken to rest.

"There was no rage or anything. He was like a robot, stabbing the guy."

Caton said passengers raced from the bus but then he, the bus driver and a trucker at the scene re-boarded to see what was happening.

Caton said he saw the suspect had the victim on the floor of the bus and "was cutting his head off and pretty much gutting him."

He said the attacker calmly came to the front of the bus to show off the head.

"He dropped the head and went back and started cutting the body back up," said Cody Olmstead, a passenger from Kentville, Nova Scotia.

The victim, who Caton said appeared to be about 19, had been on the bus since Edmonton. He said the attacker boarded the bus in Brandon, Manitoba, about 80 miles west of Portage La Prairie.

The suspect had been on the bus about an hour and initially did not sit near the victim.

"He sat in the front at first, everything was normal," Caton said.

"We went to the next stop and he got off and had a smoke with another young lady there. When he got on the bus again, he came to the back near where I was sitting.

"He put his bags in the overhead compartment. He didn't say a word to anybody. He seemed totally normal," Caton said. "About a half an hour later, we heard this bloodcurdling scream."

Greyhound spokeswoman Abby Wambaugh said 37 passengers and one driver were on the bus.

Public Safety Minister Stockwell Day called the attack bizarre, but did not discuss details, saying he did not want to jeopardize the investigation.



That sounds like a good horror movie.