Wikipedia: Blogs

1. If you look at it and cross your eyes, you can see the internet in 3D.

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2. I can see a dolphin!

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3. I’d claim that “blog” no longer looked like a word after reading that… but then again, nothing has actually changed.

   And I think I need to get my eyes checked… I can’t see the Internet when I cross my eyes looking at that… all I can see is some round, tube-shaped things.

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4. Chicken!

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5. Blog? blog-blog. Blog-blog blog, blog blog!

   Blog?

   /* seriously, i cannot remember normal words now */

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6. I’ve done things like this, but nothing quite like this… Tuesday has a similar effect when written over and over.

   Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday.

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7. Okay, after the first comment, how many of you crossed their eyes over the text, just for fun? :S

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8. Which bring us to following statistic :

   warblog : 1
   imblogging : 1
   liveblogging : 1
   newsblog : 1
   warblogs : 1
   myblog : 2
   edublog : 2
   sideblog : 2
   photoblogs : 2
   weblogs : 3
   sketchblog : 4
   moblog : 6
   photoblog : 6
   weblog : 20
   bloggers : 38
   blogging : 51
   blogs : 72
   blog : 344

   One could also note that there is absolutly no reference about “blag” on the original wikipedia page (didn’t look into history)

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9. Oh my God! I have the feeling that the word is going to come out from the screen and eat me.

   (ps. i still haven’t took my coffee =P)

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10. Dammit, I tried posting a chicken reference too, and now Akismet thinks I’m spam again.

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11. YES.

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12. Ouch. What. The. Ow?

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13. Reminds me “Chicken chicken chicken” — http://youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

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14. Bloody vikings.

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15. Mr. Munroe, this is why I love you.

    Also, disappointed by the lack of “blag”.

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16. It’s a nice effect if you load that wikipedia page in FireFox, then search for blog and click Highlight all.

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17. I also checked for blag… however, I did notice that the original page contains “blogosphere” while this post doesn’t.

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18. Blog blog blog Blog blog blog Blog newsblog Blogs blog?

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19. this post was certainly…… informative…..

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20. Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

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21. is it a bad sign that I find that hilarious?

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22. I think this actually describes blogs better than the original article.

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23. Colin Dean beat me to the Buffalo comment…

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24. Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger…

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25. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Blog#xkcd

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26. How long did it take you to do this? Do you have some sort of program that removes specific words or something?

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27. You missed at least two: vlog and linklog (right before sketchblog under “media types”).

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28. It’s even better when you funnel it through a text-to-speech program.

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29. But “blog” is a derivative of “weblog,” not the other way around.

    (Any other site and I wouldn’t bother to point it out.)

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30. It’s a page about blogs, of course it uses the word a lot. However, I would be interested to see a comparison with other wikipedia topics. I tried comparing the Blog to Salt, for the hell of it. The HTML of the Blog article is just shy of 150k. The Salt article is just under 100k. The version of Blog I scanned contained 583 words with the letters ‘blog’ within them, matching case insensitively. The Salt article had 562 ‘salt’ words.

    So 1/500th of the Salt article is the word ‘salt’, and 1/750th of the Blog article is the word ‘blog’.

    Fascinating.

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31. BUT I DON’T LIKE BLOG.

    Look, I know what xkcd thinks about quoting Monty Python… but I’m only human for fork’s sake.

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32. and i thought i was bored…

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33. Christ, that’s a lot of ‘blog’…
    What could it possibly mean? The end of formal news as we know it?
    Eh who [besides me] reads the New York Times anymore anyways, eh?

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34. Do you think it would count as vandalism if we managed to work the words “mushroom” and “snake” into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger in suitable places?

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35. Wow. This post and the “Chicken” link just gave me a start to a great new series for my tumblelog.

    Bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble bubble.

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36. Out of curiosity, how many words were *not* “blog” or a derivative? I mean, what percentage of the article does “blog*” represent?

    @ Dru89 above: I regularly read the NYTimes, plus my 2 local daily papers, and 2 local weekly alt papers in my city. I also scan (for specific content as part of my job) 2 other daily papers from nearby cities and 3 other national papers (WaPo, LATimes, and USAToday). And occasionally i pick up some of the other neighborhood papers that Seattle produces. But i will acknowledge that newspaper nerds like me are probably growing scarcer and scarcer, especially outside of the news industry.

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37. Weblog is included on the list but doesn’t fall in either of the categories stated, “the word blog” or “derivitives (of the word blog)”.

    Surely, if I have my etymology correct, it would be more accurate to say that the word ‘blog’ is a derivitive of ‘weblog’ since the latter was coined first.

    (#3 on the list of Most Pedantic Things I’ve Pointed Out This Week)

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38. Who wants to edit the article: “Blag Blag blag Blag Blag blag Blag blag blags … woblag ….”

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39. Re: Saturday’s comic, bobcats have short tails.

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40. Blogosphere?

    Seems more like a blog-o-rectangle to me.

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41. Reminds me of those grammatically correct sentences composed of one just word (and homophones and derivatives). Usually an animal that has a transitive verb for a name.

    @Colin Dean:
    Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo.
    Dogs dogs dog dog dogs.
    Badgers badgers badger badger badgers.

    I have trouble reading one this aloud using the correct intonation:

    John, when playing a game of Scrabble against Dick who, whilst pondering the degree of legitimacy the last word that Harry (who had had ‘had’) had had had had, had had ‘had’, had had ‘had’. Had ‘had’ had more letters, he would have played it again.

    I think there’s a way to add a few more “had”s in there, if one of the scrabble players is actually named “Had” and the sentence structure is a bit different, but I couldn’t construct it off the top of my head.

    My favorite by far, however, comes from china. Technically (since Mandarin is tonal) this poem is not composed of all the “same” sounds. But jst listen to it. As a non-Mandarin speaker, it just made me feel like someone really wanted me to be quiet.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_Den

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42. We need to name this number – the number of times a derivative of the word under discussion is used on its own page by Wikipedia. We could call it the Wikipedia XKCD number, for starters.

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43. @Joshua:
    We need to name this number.

    How about Wikipedia Article Self-Definition Abuse Quotient, or WASDAQ?

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44. Greg K Nicholson,
    I see it has “snake” already (legitimately), but is still needing “mushroom” for massive damage and great justice.

    For what it’s worth, I did the “highlight all” for ‘blog’ on the blog article, and it looked at a casual glance to be pretty comparable to highlighting all of the word ‘the’. Which seems scary somehow.

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45. @Nate
    There’s also the one that goes,
    The owner of an inn was painting the name, “Horse and Wagon”, onto a sign. A traveler passing by stopped and said, “There’s too much space between horse and and and and and wagon.”

    @Joshua
    Or it could just be a Word Individual Knowledge Iterance or WIKI number.

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46. To Greg and Ben,

    I’ve taken the liberty of (at least temporarily) working the word “mushroom” into the badger page, in a roundabout way, under the “Diet” section of the page.

    How long it will stay, I don’t know, but at least it’s been there.

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48. It was deleted about 2.5 hours later. You should have been more subtle…

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49. 2.5 hours is pretty good…I inserted a tidbit about how kittens shouldn’t be chewed on or eaten alive in the “Kitten” page and it was removed in under five minutes.

    😦

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50. I actually read all that. It’s like a chant now. Or maybe a horde of internet zombies. “blooooooogggg….bllooooogggg…blogggggggg…” Much better than brains. We’d live but would have to put up with some much spam/trolling. mMaybe getting eaten would be better.

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