On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:53 AM, Daniel R. Tobias <[email protected]> wrote: > On 3 Mar 2009 at 11:49:01 -0500, Gwern Branwen wrote: > >> All of those are pretty interesting things - what side of the road >> tells you both historical information, and also is terribly practical >> if you're there* >> >> * Although one certainly hopes that anyone driving in a particular >> country will not need Wikipedia to tell them something like this! > > I could see the Simpsons cartoon doing something around this...
You sure your name isn't Matt Groening? :-) > The Simpson family has just landed in a foreign country, and Homer has > rented a car, a new high-tech model with built in Internet access. > He suddenly realizes he doesn't know whether to drive on the left or > the right in that country, and brings up the Wikipedia page to look > it up. At that moment, back in Springfield, one of the school > bullies (isn't one of them named Jimbo?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Springfield_Elementary_School_students#Jimbo_Jones > has just vandalized the > country's Wikipedia article to change the driving side to the > opposite of its correct value, and thus Homer starts driving on the > wrong side, honking and cursing out all the other drivers who he says > are all doing it wrong. "Hey, you guys, you're supposed to be > driving on the left! Wikipedia says so!" Then the other drivers, > prompted by Homer's advice, pull up the Wikipedia page in their own > Internet-enabled cars, and realize they've been driving wrong all > their lives, and all switch to the opposite side. Sounds eerily prescient. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
