Audience of One

Life imitating art

1. Randall Munroe posts a comic about Wikipedia to xkcd.
2. Wikipedia article on Wood is edited/vandalised to conform to the comic’s satirical content, adding a section on “Wood in Popular Culture”.
3. Changes are reverted, and administrators decide to limit changes to the article.
4. Discussion begins on article’s Talk page concerning the events, at which point the following is written:

User 1: Shouldn’t it be “Wood in poplar culture”?
User 2: It should, but we’ll just have to be content with the fact that there’s now a protection log for the article.

This not only says something about the popular culture of the internet, but also something about me, given that I read the comic and assumed that this exact sequence of events would happen, so headed over to Wikipedia hoping to make a blog entry out of what I found on the Talk page…

(In other news, I have a job, but still no laptop. Also, I’m cooking prawns for supper. It turns out raw prawns aren’t pink. It occurs to me this should have been my assumption.)

Matthew @ 18:33, July 8, 2008 to Miscellaneous | Comments (1)