On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in front of the TV, and a question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources.
One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through a Wikipedia app. Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I got a wrong answer.
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:26:41 -0700, Ray Saintonge wrote:
I confess that when my wife and I are sitting in front of the TV, and a question arises from whatever we are watching, Wikipedia's relevant articles become a first source of information on our laptops while we're watching. When we do that we seldom feel the need to follow the sources.
One time I can recall that such a situation came up was during the Super Bowl halftime a couple of years ago; somebody I was watching it with started wondering how old Bruce Springsteen (the feature performer there) was, so I grabbed my iPhone and looked it up through a Wikipedia app. Unfortunately, the page had just been vandalized to alter his birthdate to be 10 years earlier than it really was, so I got a wrong answer.
Probably another Superbowl watcher who's halftime entertainment was to vandalise articles about people he or she had just seen on the television.
Carcharoth