7.7.09

The new bible.

Wikible. It's got a ring to it. Now Wikipedia (or 0.01% of Wikipedia, to be precise) is available in a book. Not the kind of book you can put on your coffee table, either. At some 5,000 pages and 1ft 7inches high, it would pwn that pathetic coffee table of yours.

Fact: The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

It's kind of a sad thought that the second this book came off the press, it was out of date. That's a lot of work to be made redundant in a very short period of time. I guess it's a statement that says something about the nature of the www.





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