Sunday, December 9, 2007

Fact Time Revisited

Last time we looked at the number "five." This time, despite there being 3 days left, we're going to talk about something completely different.
Specifically, we're going to talk about wikipeida.

Now I could go on and on about wikipedia's usefulness for early research, general knowledge, arguement resolving, etc., but instead I'm going to look at wikipedia's long, often twisted history.
Wikipedia is the modern day library of Alexandria, so despite being founded just shy of 7 years ago, their history is truely 2300 years old. Near the beginning, China attempted to block the insidious encroachment (the political efforts were supposedly due to the encyclopedia monopoly's bribing of government officials). Despite the great country's efforts, wikipedia plowed through them in a mere 2 weeks. A little over a year later, China made a second attempt to force wikipedia out; again failing. As of today, it is widely acknowledged that all of China is in fact under indirect wikipedia rule, and rumor has it that by 2010 it will be renamed the "Republic of Wiki."

Officals responded with this: "Wikipeida is great. All hail Wikipedia."

10 comments:

OSK said...

Haha yes you used my idea.

3 days...

Juicy said...

the number 3 + a 90 degree rotation= W


coincidence? I think not....

OSK said...

I think so.

Juicy said...

Hey, I was just trying to give the Dr some props...

gbz said...

1-what does wiki have to do with the number 3?

2-what does W have to do with anything?

3-I'm so jealous?
Wait...thats not a question...
I'M SO JEALOUS RIGHT NOW!

Juicy said...

Wiki= starts with the letter w= if you rotate it 90 degrees you get a 3 and vice versa.

gbz said...

Snap, Juicy...snap.

dr_koopon said...

I think the real snap there is that juicy just beat j_vert on a MATH related question. Not a math question, but close.

Sorry to dissapoint, but I can't claim that I thought of that (at least not without feeling guilty for lying).
And j_vert. wiki has everything to do with everything. it IS everything (or at least knows about it). It's the modern god, all knowing, all seeing, all wiking.

All hail the great wiki.

gbz said...

How was that even close to a math question? Just because it involved the number 3?

dr_koopon said...

Yes. That and it had rotating 90 degrees, which is geometry (I know it was a long time ago, try to remember. If it helps, thats π/2 radians)