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?

[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.

[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.

[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.