I’m a huge fan of wikipedia. It really takes some time getting used to reading an encyclopedia like format that’s truly live. We’re conditioned to date shift information like this based on the published date, or at least I am. I was curious about some technical bits related to the World Cup and in looking at the page today noticed this:

“The current Cup holder, Italy, follows with four titles, while Germany holds three.”

I thought, wait a minute Italy didn’t win the last World Cup before remembering that this was live information and it was referring to the World Cup awarded yesterday. In looking at this page’s history, it’s been updated over 50 times since the final yesterday. That’s cool.

Of course, I am slightly concerned about all these elves spending their lives updating wikipedia. I hesitate to suggest they get a life because I’m hooked on this live info. Um, keep up the good work.

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