In the spirit of doing more than just ranting, I set up a wiki this weekend in the hopes of providing a space for those interested in helping to make Kunkelfruit a reality.  I used the excellent MediaWiki software, which is free to use under a GNU license.  You'll probably recognize that it's the same software employed by Wikipedia itself.

I feel it's appropriate to set up a distinct wiki for Kunkelfruit because one, Wikipedia, as an encyclopedia, presents 'existing knowledge' and not 'original research'.  In a sense, Kunkelfruit really does represent original research.  Also, of its subject matter, Wikipedia primarily asks the fundamental question, 'What is it?'  In contrast, the Kunkelfruit Wiki asks, 'How is it made?'

I've tried to come up with as succinct a statement of purpose as possible for the Kunkelfruit Wiki.  This is what I've got so far: the Kunkelfruit Wiki is a home for stories about how popular products are made.  If you're interested, please visit the site: Kunkelfruit Wiki.

I'm currently working on a sample article--about the McDonald's Big Mac.  Please feel free to: contribute your own articles; spread the word; and/or make any improvements to the wiki.  I really hope this will be a collaborative project.  At some point, I'll distribute a press release about it.  I'm willing to try any other means to spread the word using guerrilla marketing techniques.

I also want to mention that in the following weeks I'll be posting more essays on theoretical physics as conceptual metaphor.  For example, on:

* Einstein's theory of general relativity
* quantum theory
* string theory, in particular, an early version of it called 'bosonic' string theory

I've also got some material on the 'free associative' aspects of string theory imagery that I think might be interesting to the poets and novelists out there--ideas to riff off of, so to speak, when imagining string theory.

More to follow, then...

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