Tuesday, October 10, 2006

North Korea is a lesbian

Blink and you'll miss it: because anyone can edit online encyclopedia Wikipedia, articles are open to being vandalized. But because so many 'benign' eyes are reading Wikipedia all the time, vandalism and mistakes are almost always quickly corrected. So I was privileged to catch sight of some random Wiki-vandalism this morning, when in the first line of the entry on North Korea read: "The minae is a lesbian (DPRK) more commonly known as North Korea..." I took a screenshot, above to preserve this all-too-brief, tenuous Internet moment, like the first swallow of spring, the flower of grass, a noiseless flash on the horizon...