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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Curly-tailed lizard

Photograph credit: Charles J. Sharp

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Various logos and graphics for wikipedia/wikimedia/wikimania.

Etc.

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

Writing

Wikipedia:Babel

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This user rescues articles for the Article Rescue Squadron.

This user plays the piano.

E₂

This user is a noder at Everything2.

This user runs macOS.

This user knows where in the world Carmen Sandiego is.

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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.

Nonfiction

How to appreciate jazz without really trying.
Sk8er Boi.
Understanding Comics.
File sharing is theft (read all the way through before you send me angry emails).
How to build a computer out of black holes.
Why is the sky blue?.
Does the Universe have granularity?.
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).

Fiction

Now I ask you, is that any way for a cosmic body to Disintegrate?.
Life^TM.
Schrodinger killed his cat.
On the Division of Labor.
The Sticker Underground .
Private Eye.

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Did you know...

Size chart of various Plagiolophus species

... that the seventeen species of the prehistoric horse relative Plagiolophus ranged in weight from 10 kg (22 lb) to more than 150 kg (330 lb) (size chart pictured)?
... that in 2025 Oscar Piastri became the first Australian since 2010 to lead the Formula One World Drivers' Championship?
... that tens of thousands of Vietnamese Catholics travel to Missouri annually to attend Marian Days at Our Lady of the Ozarks College?
... that actress Jessica Forrest performed in a play where venues were transformed into fish-and-chip shops?
... that cocoa is grown in Tokyo, almost 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) south of the city centre?
... that Jake Bergey was drafted by the Boston Blazers before being traded back to the Philadelphia Wings, twice?
... that Battle for Dream Island helped to launch a YouTube genre centered on anthropomorphic objects?
... that Agnes Inglis developed her own idiosyncratic cataloging system for the Labadie Collection?
... that people greened rubble?


1 December 2025
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