Wikipedia Wars (The Begin-a-ning)
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Makonnen Sheran, better known by his stage name iLoveMakonnen, is an American hip hop recording artist from Atlanta, Georgia. He rose to prominence in 2014 after having Drake remix his song Tuesday.
Makonnen was born in Los Angeles, California[1] and moved to Atlanta in 2002 when he was 13 years old. He is of mixed race background, having African, Indian, Irish, Belgian, German, and Chinese heritage. Despite his name being the last name of the last royal family of Ethiopia, he has no Ethiopian connections.[2] His mother was a nail instructor and has worked in the beauty business for over 30 years. He described his childhood as "semi-nice, semi-poverty" During his high school years, Makonnen was inspired by local rappers Young Jeezy and Gucci Mane to try out making music. His early songs were a mix of pop, rock and hip-hop.[3]
"I was hanging out with drug dealers and thieves and the pretty girls that were popular. The kids thought I was kind of bad. Not reckless, but a badass. A lot of people really look up to me. I kind of represent them. Its like, theyll stand behind me, but they wont stand beside me."
During 2008 and 2009, Makonnen started making songs on his Gateway computer and uploading them to MySpace. On this website, he met other rising musicians, such as Adele. Makonnen also created a blog, where he would post interviews with musicians such as Lil B and Miguel.[3] At the end of 2009, the singer was released from house arrest and put on probation for four years after accidentally shooting and killing a friend.[4] Next he enrolled in a cosmetology school, and became a part of a group called Phantom Posse.[3] In January 2012, Makonnen met Atlanta producer Mike Will Made It and the two had a brief professional relationship. However, due to Mike Will's busy schedule, they soon went on their separate ways.[2]
In March 2014, Mike Will got back to Makonnen and brought him to DTP studios, where he played some of his songs to producer Metro Boomin. Metro instantly liked Makonnen and stayed in touch with him. Later, after recording six songs together, Metro brought fellow Atlanta producers Sonny Digital and 808 Mafia, who were all unusually impressed with him. Two days later, Makonnen recorded the song "Don't Sell Molly No More" with Sonny Digital, which would later help launch his career. Sonny Digital introduced him to other Atlanta producers, such as DJ Spinz and Dun Deal. He started gaining local fame within the community with songs such as "Living On The Southside", "Sneaky Lady" and "My New Friend".[5]
Makonnen eventually kind of got off probation in May 2014, and focused on pursuing a career as a musician.[3] In July 2014, the singer released his self-titled EP ILoveMakonnen, which included the singles "Club Goin' Up on a Tuesday" and "Don't Sell Molly No More".[6] The latter reached pop singer Miley Cyrus, who shared it on her Instagram. The post got over 210,000 likes and counting that brought a lot of new fans to Makonnen.[6][7][5] On August 15, 2014, Vice included his song "Whip It" in their Staff Picks for the Week list, commenting: "Makonnen's voice is incredible! ... How could you not have a good time listening to this song? If there is anyone I trust to teach me how to whip it, it is definitely my friend Makonnen."[8]
In late August 2014, after hearing "Club Goin' Up on a Tuesday", Drake reached out to one of the song's producers Sonny Digital to ask to remix the song. Makonnen quickly agreed to send the beat to Drake, but didn't think much of it. However, two days later Drake released a remix to the song, much to Makonnen's surprise.[9] The Atlanta singer later commented: "Yeah, I surprised. Shocking. Drake listens to Makonnen. It was great. I was excited. Surprised, shocked. Just overwhelmed."[1] The remix, simply titled "Tuesday" went viral and lead to increased media interest in iLoveMakonnen.[6][10]
In late August 2014, Makonnen was featured in XXL's The Come Up section, which focuses on blowing up artists.[1] He later stated that he is looking for a major label deal and instead plans to go touring and recording music independently: "I'm not too thirsty to sign a deal. Cause a label will really just take all your free music down and you have to be somebody's bitch." He is also working on a collaboration project with Mike Will, which is set for release before the end of 2014.[2] On September 1, 2014, it was announced that Makonnen has signed to Drake's label OVO Sound, which is distributed by Warner Bros. Records.[11]
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ILoveMakonnen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wikipedia is a massive repository of information, and responsible for countlesssleepless nights as many of us fall down Wikipedia holes, clicking link after link until morning. If not for the search function (or ability to Google Wikipedia entries), the site wouldnt be very useful but this interactive nebula composed entirely of Wikipedia entries tries to be as useful as it is pretty.
Computer science student Owen Cornec created WikiGalaxy as an attempt to display Wikipedia entries in a more engaging way than the standard block of text. At the time of writing, the beta version of WikiGalaxy contains over 100,000 articles, as it proudly displays before launching. Be careful before you launch it, as it can be taxing on your rig. This 2.4GHz Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM MacBook Pro can run it just fine, but if WikiGalaxy is open in the foreground tab of my browser, any application I put in the foreground of that will lag. Basically, if youre running WikiGalaxy and plan on multitasking, leave it in a background tab or minimize your browser.
Aside from the semi-sluggish multitasking, WikiGalaxy is super fun.You can click anywhere in the glowing nebula and fly to a quadrant, where each star represents a clickableWikipedia entry. Once selected, the text of the article will invoke on the left side of the page, while related links will appear on the right.Its useful more for when youre killing time and want to look at something pretty while learning, rather than when you need to look up something in a matter of seconds. WikiGalaxy does have a search feature, but at the moment it doesnt seem to be implemented, as I couldnt locate anything I entered.
The project is gorgeous give it a spin but nothing beats Wikipedias plain text search with an engine that wont lag your GChat windows.
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Wikipedia has been turned into an interactive nebula
Wikipedia is an almost boundless source of information as close to a true compendium of human knowledge as weve ever come. Its not very pretty, though, is it? Page after page of black text on a white background, and enough hyperlinks to suck you into a never ending vortex of related articles. Rendering Wikipedia as a nebula is more befitting its true nature, dont you think? I just so happens theres a Chrome experiment that does just that, and its called WikiGalaxy.
This Wikipedia visualization was created by French computer science student Owen Cornec. Each star in WikiGalaxy is a single article on Wikipedia. Highly related articles are placed close to each other in space with connections between them. So if you click on one point of light, youll see the text of the article in the left info panel. Over on the right are all the linked articles, which show up on the map as lines connecting the points of light. Its interesting to see how wide-ranging some of the articles are. The beams of light might be confined to a little corner of the virtual galaxy on one article, then a neighboring pagehas its tendrils of influence creeping all the way across the map. To get a better feel of your meandering, you can enable the history path, which connects all the articles youve clicked on with a green line, winding through the stars.
The map view is the default mode, but you can also dive into fly mode for a more interactive experience. This places you in the middle of the galactic disc, surrounded by articles. The arrow keys move forward, back and side to side. The movement control is good enough, but anyone who has played a 4X game will be missing mouse zoom in map view. It just seems like you should be able to zoom in any out more quickly, and the buttons toward the upper left dont quite cut it.
So its neat for poking around Wikipedia in a superficial way, but what about reading articles? The preview pane on the left is okay for getting the gist, but you can click on the title for a full page version. You can read through a whole article in this view, but the lack of links and busted table formatting make it less than ideal for in-depth research. Hey, its still Wikipedia in galaxy form. What more do you want?If you would liketo simply enjoy the interface and click around, theres a button up top to turn off the UI and get all those boxes out of the way.The beta version only has 100,000 articles, but thats still a sizeable galaxy.
Cornecs next project will be to color-code the different article categories so youll be able to tell what sort of article each star represents without clicking on it. More stars should be added along the way too. While this is a Chrome experiment running WebGL and HTML5, WikiGalaxyshould work in most modern browsers. However, it might not play as nicely with Chrome on Macs. You can blame either Google or Apple for that take your pick.
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Wikipedia has been visualized as an interactive galaxy powered by WebGL
Grupos Sionistas modifican la historia en la Wikipedia
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