Back in the days when people were still referring to the Internet as “The Information Superhighway“, a friend of mine liked to make this pronouncement: “The Internet is not an information superhighway. It’s a typing superhighway. Just because someone types something onto a computer doesn’t make it information.”

I’ve always loved that quote, and never has it applied to any website better than it applies to Deletionpedia, a collection of nearly 64,000 articles (so far) that have been deleted from Wikipedia. This is an awesome concept. It’s the world’s second collection of writing that is guaranteed to be useless, the first, of course, being the Toronto Sun. I simply love that a deliberative body has looked over this stuff and decide that it doesn’t meet the high standards of a public encyclopedia that dedicates tens of thousands of words to the television show Lost.

Here is some of the gloriousness that is Deletionpedia:

The complete list of entries for “List of Films with monkeys in them”

• King Kong- was a gorilla but monkey family
• Dunsten checks in- Orangatan part of monkey family
• King Kong vs Godzilla- fictional mechanical gorilla

Some background on the Shady/Aftermath vs. Murder Inc. feud:

In the song, he not only made fun of 50 Cent, Eminem (he called him Feminem), and Dr. Dre (he had called him a bisexual and claimed that Suge Knight knew of Dre bringing transvestites home, and both are false), but he had also dissed his friend Busta Rhymes who signed to Aftermath at that time. The track also insulted Eminem’s daughter, Hailie, by saying that she’ll grow up to be a slut or a drug addict like Eminem’s ex-wife Kimberly Anne Scott and mother Debbie.

And one of the un-told tragedies of Hurricane Katrina, Air Gumbo:

Air Gumbo is an airline based in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. It is a proposed low-cost airline start-up seeking to launch services from New Orleans to cities in the USA, Canada, Mexico, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. It planned to launch scheduled services in November 2005, but the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina apparently forced the airline to reconsider that plan^[1], and as of October 2007, the airline has not started operations.

This thing really is a browser’s paradise, and each article also includes a link back to the original deletion discussion on Wikipedia. This is my favourite new thing on the Internet in weeks.