Colbert does it again

Once again, Stephen Colbert has launched an attack on Wikipedia.

As you may recall, a while back Colbert described "Wikeality," suggesting that just as one should not trust a suicide note that concludes “Dictated but not read,� one can't really trust an encyclopedia built upon consensus. To that end, he asked fans to vandalize the Wikipedia entry on "Elephant." (The page still bears his imprint.)

Tonight, he took on Wikipedia again, spinning off the story that Microsoft had paid people to go in and change its Wikipedia entry to make it more positive. He then offered $5 to anyone who would change the site's entry on "reality" to read, "Reality has become a commodity."

Sure enough, within 12 minutes of Colbert's request, "Reality" had, indeed, become a commodity. Alas, five minutes later, Colbert's definition had been removed, though Philip K. Dick's assessment that "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away" remained intact.

Of course, who knows what the page will look like in another 10 minutes?