Tuesday, January 17, 2012

Look It Up

So in a few minutes from this post, Wikipedia is going to "go dark" to protest the Stop Internet Piracy Act (SOPA), which many online folks say will result in government censorship of the internet like China has.

Word is many college professors are expecting an upturn in the amount of legitimate factual information that appears in their students' assignments. On the other hand, you could always go find a couple of students, tell them that Eli Whitney invented a way to make gin from cotton and then take them to a library and watch them wander around aimlessly, unable to use a reference section.

ETA: Or not; as of 7:30 AM Wednesday, Wiki was still pedia-ing.

ETA 2: Ah, just have to hit refresh, apparently, and now we have the blackout screen.

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