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Blacked-out websites and calls-to-action appear across the Web to protest proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills.

From death hoaxes to straight slander, this is the other side of The Free Encyclopedia.

While there have been some previous discussions about whether or not Wikipedia would black out its site to protest SOPA/PIPA -- and the community's consensus was to do so -- it appeared that they had agreed that the trigger for a black out would be on the passing of the bill.

That's a little late.

The Vatican plagiarized straight from Wikipedia for cardinals' biographies. The Holy See took information right from the cardinals' Wikipedia pages for a press release, which was first noticed by an Espresso magazine writer.

On PHPMaster.com today there's a new design pattern-focused that introduces you to using the Factory method to create new objects on the fly.

Open Source: Mirror mirror on the wall, what's the most important open source project of them all?

User-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia shut down its Italian website yesterday to protest a proposed privacy law drafted by the Italian government, reports The Atlantic.

The law would force websites to remove any information identified as defamatory to an individual within 48 hours of a complaint.

A day in the Internet when Wikipedia, Google and Computer compete with each other and Guess who is the Winner?

The sun is shining bright for Tumblr today. The microblogging platform raised $85 million and was heralded as "bigger than Wikipedia." But Tumblr's explosive growth has been driven by huge quantities of porn and spam, and that seems to make the startup uncomfortable.

In a recent post to his blog Ian Barber looks at applying Benford's Law in PHP to determine if the dataset you're working with is "real" or not.