User:Nicereddy

About:

I mostly edit Wikidata these days.

My primary interests include graphic design, video games, and programming, but I most often edit articles on topics relating to video games. I feel that the public domain is one of the most important modern concepts we have. I frequently contribute to discussions on the UI/UX of Wikipedia and would be more than willing to help anyone interested in receiving comment on the design of their templates, WikiProjects, or other related ideas.

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This user has been a member of Wikipedia since January 10, 2013.
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Fun Facts:
  • Following the test of India's first nuclear bomb, titled Smiling Buddha, France sent a congratulatory telegram, but eventually withdrew it.
  • Marius the giraffe was a resident of the Copenhagen Zoo who was eventually decided to have been unfit for reproduction. He was publicly dissected in front of a crowd (which included children), and then fed to the lions.
  • Semantic satiation is the feeling most people experience after repeating a word multiple times, causing the word to lose its meaning.
  • The Szilárd petition was a petition by a number of scientists who worked on The Manhattan Project, who protested the use of a second bomb on Japan during World War II. Most of the signers of the petition lost their jobs.
  • Following the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, the 2001 Clear Channel memorandum banned more than 150 songs from being played on more than 1200 radio stations owned by Clear Channel. This list included such songs as "Imagine" by John Lennon, "Walk Like an Egyptian" by The Bangles, and "Ironic" by Alanis Morissette.
  • In 1958, the United States planned to nuke the moon in an attempt to defeat the Soviet Union in The Space Race.
  • Adolf Hitler, in the last part of his life, was a vegetarian.
  • If the death of one person can cause a software project to fail, that project has a bus factor of one.
  • In the 1958 Tybee Island mid-air collision the United States lost a nuclear bomb off the coast of Georgia. It has never been found.
  • In 1982 the Bell System was broken up in an attempt to remove the monopoly AT&T had on the phone industry at the time. In the years since that time, four of the seven companies created by the breakup have been purchased by AT&T.
  • RollerCoaster Tycoon was developed almost completely in Assembly.
  • The nuclear launch codes for American nuclear silos was "00000000" for more than 20 years.
  • President Nixon utilized madman theory in his foreign policy by acting as though he was insane in an attempt to dissuade enemies from attacking the United States. This lead to Operation Giant Lance, a project which involved sending a squadron of B-52s armed with nuclear warheads to the border of the Soviet Union for three days straight as a scare tactic.
  • Due to a miscommunication during the Korean War, crates which were supposed to contain mortar rounds were filled with Tootsie Rolls, as the supply specialist was unaware that "Tootsie Rolls" was simply a code word.
  • Albert Einstein's brain and eyes were removed seven hours after his death, potentially without his consent prior to his death or the consent of his family.
  • Paying $3.22 billion (USD), Silverstein Properties received a 99-year lease of the World Trade Center with the lease beginning on July 24, 2001, less than a month and a half before the September 11th attacks.
  • A 15,145-page, single-spaced fantasy manuscript was written by Henry Darger, but not discovered until after his death.
  • According to the beliefs of the Church of Scientology, Xenu was the dictator of the "Galactic Confederacy" who 75 million years ago brought billions of his people to Earth (then known as "Teegeeack") in a DC-8-like spacecraft, stacked them around volcanoes, and killed them with hydrogen bombs.
  • Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga, Mobutu Sese Seko for short and born under the name Joseph-Desiré Mobutu, was dictator of the Congo for thirty years. He embezzled between $4 and $15 billion during his time in office. His name translates to "The all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and inflexible will to win, goes from conquest to conquest, leaving fire in his wake."