Month: March 2010

[London author Raj] Patel’s background and work coincidentally matched a series of prophecies made by an 87-year-old Scottish mystic called Benjamin Creme, the leader of a little-known religious group known as Share International. Because he matched the profile, hundreds of people around the world believed that Patel was the living embodiment of a figure they called Maitreya, the Christ or “the world teacher”.

In case you didn’t understand the reference in my post title and in other stories about Patel, it’s from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, a hilarious movie that you have to see this instant if you haven’t already… 🙂

Wikipedia is an ocean of information. While you may still want to seek secondary information sources before trusting it entirely, you cannot argue that the site contains a plethora of useful information.

That said, it’s tough to navigate through so much data. You can get much more out of it in less time if you decide to ditch the conventional way of using the built-in Wikipedia search for scouring through the information. The following ten tools will help you search and use Wikipedia like never before.

I found Powerset to be particularly useful, as it produced much better search results than Wikipedia.