The best part of the whole site is actually the petty backstabbing on the administration pages - hours of entertainment for all

Wikipedia is a wonderful resource for all sorts of things, despite its many flaws. There isn't space here to go into the arguments over precisely how reliable it is (yes, I know Blogger doesn't restrict the amount of text you enter, so technically I have infinite space - believe me, that still isn't enough for some people), but it is undoubtedly one of those places where you can find vast quantities of information, some of it fascinating, some of it useless, some of it shocking, some of it just plain weird.

Many articles fill an encyclopaedic niche that you never knew existed - for example, Wikipedia offers a nearly exhaustive list of songs whose title constitutes the entire lyrics, at least one conspiracy theory which is beyond weird and plunging right into "utterly bizarre", a list of comic book superpowers along with accompanying articles for some of the superheroes who possess extremely bizarre ones, a selection of plants possessing edible leaves, and the complete results from the boxing events at the 1968 Olympics. We won't even touch the vast numbers of articles dealing with every single one of the 493 types of Pokémon - I think you can see them for yourself if you're remotely interested.

It's not just the articles themselves, though, which are fun to read - otherwise dull articles can also suddenly redeem themselves by bringing in an entirely off-the-wall section. Consider, for example, the Gallery Of Interesting Sideburns. I did not need to see several examples of this particularly odd facial hairstyle, but now that I have I am extremely grateful. Or we could go over to the world of music and see a list of well-known contemporary music written in the key of E minor. Some sections seem to have been written by someone who thinks that they're rather more important than they actually are - for example, the four-line section entitled The Health of Julius Caesar (Complete With Portentous Capital Letters). And sometimes you get a good old-fashioned pile-in, in which every visitor to an article decides that their bit of trivia must find a place somewhere - this "In popular culture" section, as happens pretty much anywhere a similar section appears, is an excellent example.

Sometimes anarchy really does have a good side...