Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Welcome, Bewildered Seekers of Knulledge

The Internet, in addition to being a series of tubes, is also an excellent source of information, a.k.a. knowledge. Say, you have a question, such as How many legs does a bee have? or How can I build a space station from simple household items? or Who was Prince Albert and did he really have one? You can find answers to these and many other valid questions like them on the Internet, by simply Googling them, looking them up on Wikipedia, or asking Jeeves.

But how many of your fellow travellers on the Superinformationhighway will notice and admire you if you resort to such a simple and elegant solution to your knowledge problem? Maybe a one-in-eleventeen-billion chance of your search catching someone's eye on Google Live Query, and the odds of your search history being subpoenaed by the FBI are only slightly better. Basically, chances are nil that someone smoldering, smoking hot will even know of your query, let alone say to themselves: "Gosh, what a curiously insatiable thirst for knowledge! I would really like to shag this person."

Fortunately, the Internet a veritable emporium of solutions to this dilemma. They are called "knowledge sharing communities," or some such nonsense. This is where you can ask your questions, and someone - possibly even someone smoldering, smoking hot who will want to shag you - will read your query and answer it.

You can join these communities even if you're semi-literate and your capacity for retaining knowledge is about as good as a newborn's capacity for retaining his bladder. You are especially welcome there if you don't know how to use the rest of the Internet to find answers to such questions as How many days in a year? or What is IQ? or Where is Canada? These are all valid questions, too.

However, there are also those who infiltrate these welcoming communities to ask questions such as What colour should I dye my hair? and Do u like Dawgs? and Has anyone found my skull or my fetus? It is safe to say these people are not seeking knowledge. In fact, most of them are members of the World-Wide Conspiracy That Seeks to Reduce the Content-to-Noise Ratio of the Internet to Null (WWCTSRCNRIN). The same nefarious organization that employs thousands of bloggers, spammers, and misguided souls to overpopulate the Internet with knulledge - information whose educational, entertainment, and nutritional value is null. (Incidentally, the same covert organization is responsible for introducing the appendix into the human body.)

Therefore, the mission of the Encyclopædia of Knulledge can be stated simply: "To undermine the WWCTSRCNRIN by adding educational, entertainment and nutritional value to its ridiculous questions."

P.S. Bring me some good ones if you come across them.

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