Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog

Posted in Personal Miscellany on November 23rd, 2009 by Stephen DeGrace Link

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I'm home sick today and I decided to re-watch Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog. What an awesome movie or show or whatever. It was released in three 15 min episodes over the internet during the writers' strike, and stars Neil Patrick Harris as the anti-hero, Dr. Horrible. It centres around a love triangle between Dr. Horrible, his nemesis, the superhero Captain Hammer, played by Nathan Fillion, and Dr. Horrible's laundromat crush, the shy and philanthropic Penny played by Felicia Day.

As the name suggests, it is a musical... Dr. Horrible is funny and all-around awesome.

You can't watch the show online from Canada... you can download the show and the music on iTunes, though, and you can download it on torrent sites, which is how I got it.

As an aside, after writing this post I was inspired to do something evil. That is, I created a Django app that implements a middleware that can be used to automate linking to Wikipedia. For any given link, you just set the href to wikipedia and the title to the article you want it to look for. It queries Wikipedia for every matching link and if it gets told of a redirect to an article it links it for you and if it does not it links the Wikipedia search output.

As you can probably tell, I don't agree with Alister Cameron's article linked above. I think it's completely justified that Wikipedia articles frequently top the search results and I have no problem linking to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is usually accurate, especially for high-profile articles (I can confirm that science and math articles tend to be good), it provides a good, succinct introduction to the topic in question, and especially on better articles provides many references and links to check out for more information. God only knows that having a known, credentialed author is hardly a perfect defence against bad information... via collective editing and the discussion pages, Wikipedia at least gives you some degree of defence against one person's biases and gaps. Wikipedia articles tend to be accessible and heavily explained via links to other articles. Plus, you can easily get the version of any given article in your own language.

For the purposes of offering a basic explanation of any topic, Wikipedia is superior to most other sources. I'm sorry, but it has richly earned its high ranking.

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