Here are the most popular articles from Wikipedia in 2024. I guess I’m not the only one obsessed with deaths!

Slope initially began as a blog, so this is where most of the website’s content resides. Here we have tens of thousands of posts dating back over a decade. These are listed in reverse chronological order. Click on any category icon below to see posts tagged with that particular subject, or click on a word in the category cloud on the right side of the screen for more specific choices.
Here are the most popular articles from Wikipedia in 2024. I guess I’m not the only one obsessed with deaths!


I feel strongly about movies. I dislike 99% of them, but the 1% I like, I love. One near the very top of the list is Short Cuts, which is from 32 years ago and is not available on streaming anywhere. You’ve got to buy a DVD to watch it, as I am doing at this very moment. I highly recommend it!

This is off topic – – sort of – – but allow me to say a few words about one of the big newspapers here in Northern California.
Through hard experience, I have learned that (for reasons I simply cannot fathom) they have a penchant for completely exaggerating about the weather. If a very modest drizzle is coming, they pull text out of the book of Revelations. Here, for instance, is a notice I received this morning:
