On 1/25/07, Daniel P. B. Smith <wikipedia2006(a)dpbsmith.com> wrote:
Just got my latest "Funny Times," which
contains a cartoon by Andy
Singer... I can't find it online, sorry... it's headed "Alternative
Forms of Government," and one of the options is "Wikigovernment:"
"Anyone can appoint or fire government officials, online. But someone
else can undo those appointments, until the entire nation is mired in
internet voting gridlock." In the picture under the caption, a
smaling woman says "I was President for two minutes," and a grinning
man says "Now it's my turn!"
In the same vein, I just read a hilarious article on Slate about wiki-parenting.
http://www.slate.com/id/2158216?nav=tap3
Quote:
Now, my husband and I had more or less finalized our wiki entry on
caring for babies with colds. We had agreed, for instance, about the
germ theory over the outside-with-wet-heads theory. We were, in the
main, for hot liquids, baby Tylenol, hand-washing, and humidifiers.
But as our boys are increasingly exposed to a growing number of end
users, the markups of their illness wiki began to proliferate.
One of the great-aunts quickly submitted the milk markup. "No milk, no
cheese, no yogurt," she wrote definitively. I went back that afternoon
and edited this out. "The pediatrician has assured us that there is
absolutely no connection between dairy and mucous," I wrote. My mom
was spurred on to correct my error. "Absolutely no milk," she marked
up my markup. "Also, no baths!"
--Oskar