Noise To Signal

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*plays the theme to The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin in tribute*

His wikipedia entry claims he co-wrote 'Reach', the S Club 7 hit. Bloody hell!

By Tanya Jones on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 @ 18:36

Well I never knew that:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7026637.stm

By Andrew on Thursday, October 4, 2007 @ 17:29

"He often played musical jokes. On one episode of the Last of the Summer Wine the storyline involved some oil being found so he composed the music in the style of Dallas."

Pure brilliance!

By performingmonkey on Thursday, October 4, 2007 @ 19:28

His wikipedia entry claims he co-wrote 'Reach', the S Club 7 hit. Bloody hell!

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/03/wikipedia_obituary_cut_and_paste/

Shockingly pathetic. Even I'm better than that! Reuters is particularly embarassing. And as for the BBC, they only employed him for over two decades, didn't they? Christ.

By John Hoare on Friday, October 5, 2007 @ 00:33

This is the trouble with Wikipedia. The people who use it don't realize that it's only as good as its own sources. If you don't check the sources (all of them) to make sure something's not mistyped, taken out of context, or wrong completely, then Wikipedia is no more helpful than phoning up 200 random residents of Anytown, Earth and compiling everything they think they know on a given subject.

It's a tremendously helpful resource when used properly. Which it never, ever, under any circumstance, is.

By Miguel Sanchez on Friday, October 5, 2007 @ 15:36

The best thing about researching something on wikipedia is that even if it's bullshit it often sounds like something that isn't so you get away with it. Much easier to copy and paste bollocks that someone else has put on wikipedia rather than having to come up with your own.

By performingmonkey on Wednesday, October 10, 2007 @ 04:54