Name: John Johnston
Age: 37
Location: Calgary, AB
Email: ateabutnoe [at] gmail [dot] com
Disposition: Sunny

June 06, 2005
laws and corollaries 
I love the word corollary. And I tell you what else I love at the moment... Wikipedia. It really is the perfect format for an encyclopedia, it is (almost exactly) what hyperlinking was invented for: you can view one thing then slide off and read about a related item. Of course there is my inate distrust of any "facts" found on the internet, not to mention that North American habit of over-intellectualising everything. But it's still fascinating and I could spend hours reading up about things.

I've recently been on Wikipedia finding out about Godwin's Rule:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one

This lead me to discover one of it's marvellous corollaries: The Lileks Principium:
In the future, everyone will be Hitler for fifteen minutes.

You've been warned.

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