2008 Woodie Awards
A whack by any other name...
Variations on the whack theme spice things up
By: Jason Goldman-Hall
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The Web site also has a section where people post their whacks, accompanied by clever explanations or definitions.
For example, Heidi Carpenter, who posted "apartheid receptionist," provided the explanation: "On the nomination form for a Pulitzer Prize, under the topic 'Human Rights Reporting,' what category follows 'abuse photographer' and 'violence videographer'?"
There has also been a peculiar phenomenon associated with the Googlewhacking craze. The phenomenon, known as The Dixon/Greeble Heisenwhack Principle, based on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, saysevery successful whack recorded on the Internet lowers the number of possible whacks in existence.
The phenomenon, first identified by Ray Dixon, states that if someone finds one match on Google for their word, then submits that whack to a Web site, the next time someone tries to whack with that combination it will come back with at least two matches: one for the original whack, and one for the posting of said whack.
This means that - theoretically - one day there will be no possible whacks.
Other stories in this series
Internet craze has fans whacking their Google
Have you Googlewhacked?
History of the Whack: Part I - Unblinking
Googlewhacking and Unblinking make you go blind
History of the Whack: Part II - Googlewhacking is born
Googlewhacking is born
Everyone whacks, those who don't are probably lying.
Celebrities are doing it, shouldn't you?
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anonymous889
anonymous889
posted 3/12/04 @ 9:17 AM PST
"one day there will be no possible whacks..." this day may never come as new keywords and key phrases are constantly being invented. The fractal temperature of discourse is being constantly augmented, like the expansion of the universe. (Continued…)
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