What Hath Randall Wrought?

[beamjockey]

Seen today's XKCD?

So begins the struggle.

Comments

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Unbelievable.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'd love to know how you actually verify that one - find an old thesis or something?

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

If it were true, old publications, or oral-history interviews.

Since it ain't, I suppose the defense is to keep removing the assertions with a demand for a source.

Also, one could perhaps track down the authentic history of the scroll-lock key. But that, too, would become vandalized.

I'm not very clear on how Wikipedia handles this sort of problem.

[mrmeval.livejournal.com]

Wikipee is a 'guided' by a bunch of puffed up assholes who will insert whatever biased crap they feel like in lieu of facts. Have you noticed the deluge of pro-islamic crap being added? About the only useful information is technological information. Historical, personal or political information is mutable.

[bibliofile.livejournal.com]

That Randall, always making trouble!

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness! This will run and run.

I wonder when the first use on wikipedia of that xkcd strip as a source for the scroll lock key will come up...

[acmespaceship.livejournal.com]

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.* Which means, at some time in the future, it may become accepted truth that Chu invented the Scroll Lock and civilization will progress along in blissful ignorance like it usually does.

*This is a quote written by Jane Wagner, not Lily Tomlin, although history will surely attribute it to Tomlin.

Also: I believe it is still true that John Siegenthaler has never been charged in the assassination of JFK.

JFK

[mhagerman.livejournal.com]

"...that John Siegenthaler has never been charged in the assassination of JFK."

I should hope not; it was one of the John Dillinger quints who did it.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

I'm reminded of the juvenile detective who attempts to solve crimes using supposed facts that keep changing and often contradict one another: Wikipedia Brown.

[bibliotrope.livejournal.com]

If this were Facebook, I would Like this comment. :-)

[erik]

We have always been at war with Eastasia.

[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

I wonder what their page on the American Revolution looks like.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/wikipedia-celebrates-750-years-of-american-indepen,2007/

I'm afraid to go look.