The latest xkcd comic features a histogram of dangers indexed by the number of Google search results for “Died In A _____ Accident”. I want to know more about the two people who died in a blogging accident. What a horrible way to go.
comic by xkcd
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His posting of that cartoon has utterly screwed up any independent verification of his numbers. Damn Heisenberg!
case in point.
june 1, 2007 11am entry
http://transformationfreedom.blogspot.com/2007/05/wake-up.html
I’m glad to know I’m relatively safe:)
I knew there was a good reason why I decided not be a knitting blogger!
This comic is incorrect every one know the most deaths are raptor attcks
At the moment, there are about 155000 results for “Died in a blogging accident” on Google, ah how the world changes
And only 704 for “died in a knitting accident”
I ran this story on the day it broke, Taking note of how it fared on google trends.
http://mrcopilot.blogspot.com/2008/01/died-in-blogging-accident.html
Darn. I googled “died in a blogging accident” and ended up here.
Screw Heisenberg, seriously.
He very explicitly put quotes in his comic.
If you don’t put quotes around it, you won’t get anywhere near the same number of results.
Even still, there are almost 50,000 results for “Died in a blogging accident.”
There are currently over 550,000 results for “died in a blogging accident.”
hmm.. stumbled the original comic.. and then googled WITH quotations.. and here's where I end up.. kinda figures
stumble stumble stumble XD
just spent the past 2 hours straight on XKCD website and found this thing
death by blogging XD
kinda reminds me of “Death by Teacup”
Kind of weird that “died in a driving accident” only returns 29,500 results.