Half-Mind Weblog

Hash Heritage Foundation Hash Genealogy Project A little over a decade ago, Bill Panton (Kuala Lumpur H3/Washington DC H3) embarked upon an interesting journey: tracing all known hash kennels back to the Mother Hash.  He first showed his work to the hash world at InterHash 1998 in Kuala Lumpur, when he unrolled a 20-foot-long scroll [...]

Sux2Blow, the webmaster of HashSpace, announced the start of HashSpace Wiki a couple of months ago.  Since then, hashers have been correcting, updating, and adding information to this user-edited repository of hashing information. Sux2Blow set up some broad categories: Hash History Hash Traditions Hash Kennels Hash Events More categories can be added . . . [...]

How many hashers know there’s a Wikipedia entry for Hash House Harriers?  Not many, I bet. Most of us know Wikipedia’s a user-edited online encyclopedia, where regular people like you and me can write, update, correct, and (if we choose) falsify entries on any topic.  Someone (I don’t know who, other than that it wasn’t [...]

The hashpaedia Shakesprick has launched a new hash information site, The Hashpaedia.  When I saw the announcement this morning, I immediately thought of Wikipedia.  You know, the popular online encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to, improve, and edit.  What a boon to hashers this’ll be, I thought . . . ’cause I have plenty to [...]