Where extraordinary becomes eccentric

Gordon Gekko, the main villain of the fabulous Oscar-winning movie Wall Street, mentored the young Charlie Sheen about the factors one should consider when making investments.

Technical analysis is one thing, but “the most valuable commodity I know of is information,” claimed Gekko. His protégé was under investigation of the SEC later in the movie, as he decided to invest based on illegal insider information so fresh that they hadn’t yet been announced to the public.

Well, fresh information certainly isn’t something the less popular articles on Wikipedia are full of. For example, the entry on Radvanice, the industrial district of a town 20 minutes away from where I live, provides facts about its inhabitants based on a 97 years old census, the time when it still was a part of Austria-Hungarian empire. Something is telling me the figures might have changed since then…