The premise of Wikipedia is laudable. A knowledge depository written and edited by the people, for the people. The glue that keeps the site together is an evolving set of policies and guidelines, but, these guidelines are open to much interpretation and debate. Here are 10 of Wikipedia's daftest discussions.

Windows 8, the theoretical next version of Microsoft's ubiquitous OS, will be different from what has been expected of the platform, according to a cached version of a Microsoft blog post.

At issue is a feature that compiles a list of the Gmail contacts who users most frequently email or chat with. Buzz automatically starts following these people and makes the list public, meaning strangers can see who Buzz users have been in contact with.

Nearly a third of PCs protected by up-to-date antivirus software show signs of malware infection.

Apple on Tuesday unveiled Aperture 3, the latest update of its photo editing and management software. The announcement came around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, after a few hours of rampant Internet speculation about why Apple's online store went offline -- the telltale sign that a new product is on the way.

In a series of small ceremonies, the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday shut down Loran-C, a navigation and timing system that has guided mariners and aviators since World War II.

The trouble-plagued Large Hadron Collider looks to be doing a bang up job in some of its primary tasks. After breaking the energy record previously held by the Tevatron particle accelerator back at the end of November, 2009, reports are now coming in that the LHC is, in fact, producing some extremely high energy collisions.

Free from the Microsoft hegemony, user and developer utopia should ensue, some argue -- but here's why apocalypse is more likely.

In Japan, a surprising number of consumers really do claim to believe that Sony products are programmed to break as soon as the warranty expires.

It had never crossed my mind that they could be blamed for the return of a disease that many of you might associate with Oliver Twist. No, not the plague of painfully staged musical productions in regional theaters. Rickets.