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The XKCD data died in a blogging accident

The XKCD data died in a blogging accident

By li ding on Thursday, December 8th, 2005 at 11:02 am.

The popular XKCD had another Web related comic yesterday, but it trned out to be self-negating.

Dangers

As was noted on Slashdot:

“As I noted yesterday (and was joined by many others)… in an offhand observation xkcd has singlehandedly changed a small section of the Internet. Changing the results from a Google search for “Died in a Blogging Accident” from 2 to (at this writing) over 7,170 in a little more than 24 hours.”

The number of results are now up to 13.3K. I guess something like the Heisenberg uncertainty principle applies to the Internet, too.

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