While walking home today, I was drawn to the sound of music playing on Broadway. To my surprise, I found that a three-piece band was playing an impromptu concert in the Diamond parking lot next to the old U.S. Bank building. They had a generator to power their (quite loud) amps, and two guys [...]

Stephen Colbert’s piece on Wikipedia has been getting a lot of coverage, and it got me thinking about the nature of factual errors in reference material.
The common wisdom is that sources such as Encyclopœdia Britannica are more accurate than Wikipedia. I am not aware of any actual studies which provide evidence as to the accuracy [...]