5 Wikipedia Pages Worth Your While

1. "P-Funk Mythology" -- Wherein some of the world's geekiest people chronicle the far-reaching mindgasms of Sir Clinton:
   
   

   Starchild’s nemesis is Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk ... Sir Nose attempts to end the Funk because he is too cool to dance. He is the master of the Placebo Syndrome, which causes unFunkiness (a combination of stupidity and not dancing). His goal is to place the minds of all humanity into a state called the Zone of Zero Funkativity. Starchild, on the other hand, uses his Bop Gun ... to achieve Funkentelechy for all humanity.

   
   


2. "Captain EO" -- Big credit to Lermotron for this one, which I'd say will bring back deep-rooted, seriously weird memories for 66% of people my age.
   
   

   It was directed by Francis Ford Coppola, executive-produced by George Lucas, photographed by Vittorio Storaro, produced by Rusty Lemorande, and written by Lemorande, Lucas and Coppola. The score was written by James Horner ... The Supreme Leader was played by Anjelica Huston ... Lasting just 17 minutes but with cost estimates between U.S. $17 million and $30 million.

   
   


3. "Repo Man" -- Anybody who's seen this movie might be able to guess that former rental store clerk Quentin Tarantino would probably have seen it too, and maybe even been influenced by it. But the other stuff piled up in this Ultimate Cult Classic (a reference to "Kiss Me Deadly"? is pretty ridiculous. One of those pages that can lead you on a deep, deep Wiki-Tunneling excursion.


4. List of media using the Wilhelm scream -- What do "A Star is Born," "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom," and "Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle" have in common? Only the beautifully geeky folks who put together this list know for sure. (Hint: they're very vocal about their sound design choices).


5. List of commercial failures in computer and video gaming -- Beautiful, detailed schadenfreude, to satisfy that part of your soul that loves to mock multi-national electronics companies. Just the link to the Atari Jaguar alone is worth the read:
   

   Finally, in mid-1996, Atari ran early-morning infomercial advertisements with enthusiastic salesmen touting the powerful game system. The infomercials ran most of the year but did not significantly sell the remaining stock of Jaguar systems.