A spooky two-faced tale comes to us today, as the Wikiworm continues to burrow deeper into the weirder side of Wikipedia... Edward Mordake was the name given to an apocryphal 19th century heir to an unspecified English peerage who was said to have suffered from a form of Diprosopus. According to ... Read More...

The first Wikiworm of 2014 gets the year started with a wikipedia article about some hard-rockin' crimes against language... A metal umlaut (also known as röck döts) is a gratuitously or decoratively used accent over letters in the names of hard rock or heavy metal bands. Among English speakers, the use ... Read More...

HoHoHo, wishing a merry Nazi Christmas to all readers of The Dabbler and The Wikiworm! I'm looking forward to a 2014 full of questionable facts and eyebrow-raising articles from the deepest depths of Wikipedia. 2013 has been a blast, see you in the new year. The celebration of Christmas in Nazi ... Read More...

This was one of John Lennon's pranks that had passed me by; sounds like the sort of thing that Russell Brand would like. Today's Wikiworm uncovers an early example of studenty idealism... Bagism is a term which was created by John Lennon and Yoko Ono as part of their peace campaign ... Read More...

I thank the lord that I have yet to encounter the mythical Magic Roundabout of Swindon, the star of today's Wikiworm, my weekly trawl through the more unusual articles to be found on Wikipedia. Have any Dabblers had the misfortune to have tackled this monstrosity? The Magic Roundabout in Swindon, England was ... Read More...

This bugged me as a teenager, and now thanks to the wonders of Wikipedia, today's Wikiworm performs a valuable public service in answering that age old question - "What the hell is a pompatus?" The word pompatus, also spelled pompitous, is a neologism used in the lyrics of Steve Miller’s 1973 ... Read More...

Nothing like tales of a lost island to get the imagination going. Today the Wikiworm's weekly delve into the strangest articles on Wikipedia uncovers the story of a Mediterranean island that was mistakenly attacked by American war planes... Ferdinandea is a submerged volcanic island which forms part of the underwater volcano ... Read More...

I'd never heard of this chap, which seems unfair considering that if it hadn't been for him none of us would be here reading this week's riveting edition of The Wikiworm... Stanislav Petrov (born c. 1939) is a retired lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defence Forces. On September 26, 1983, ... Read More...

The Wikiworm is where I take a weekly look at some of the weirder wikipedia pages to be found - today's trivia may involve an explanation for the dreaded (and almost certainly fictional) iron maiden... A Drunkard's cloak or Schandmantel was a type of wooden barrel used in several countries for the ... Read More...

In this week’s delve into the weirder recesses of Wikipedia, the Wikiworm presents for your delectation the dreadful scourge of the Scunthorpe Problem - no tittering at the back please. The Scunthorpe Problem occurs when a spam filter or search engine blocks e-mails or search results because their text contains a ... Read More...