When Wikipedia tells too much
Wikipedia is a cool concept to begin with but becomes even better when you consider all of the fringe topics it covers that wouldn't be included on any other reference site. And thanks to it's tremendous search positioning in Google, I find more and more that its my go-to if I want to learn about something quick. However, beside the fact that some of the info could be a little questionable since anyone can update an entry, there's another downside - too much info.
Case in point: Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" which I Wiki'd this evening after seeing the trailers pretty much everywhere in the past few weeks. There's a short plot summery which is helpful, BUT which also contains a pretty major spoiler for those who haven't seen the movie. Since it doesn't hit theaters until Friday, that's pretty much all of us. It could have been such a great twist too, had I not known it was coming. Lesson learned. Wiki your way around with care! By the way, "Score SAY zee" or "Score SEH zee"? Leonardo DiCaprio says the former in the interviews, Rummell, the latter on the trailers. It's one thing when someone butchers my last name ("siz MAN ski" is usually the first guess from people) but this is one of the greatest movie directors of all time we're talking about. Maybe Wikipedia knows...
