Aug 22, 2008 We’re bigger than Moses!
Follower of Hip as Fuck will probably remember the Mario Kart DUI experiment. If you don’t, just click that link. Anyway, it came, it went, and it got a few hits from people Googling Mario Kart, as well as a handful of hits from iluvspokane and yada yada yada. As HaF is only updated now and again, it usually only gets about 11 unique hits a day, and about 50-100 on the day it’s actually updated. Hardly an Internet destination in other words.
A few weeks ago something happened however. All of a sudden i got about 1,500 uniques in a day, most of them on the aforementioned Mario post. Huh. Turned out A Whole Lotta Nothing, had found the post interesting enough to post a link to it, which, of course, was cool. For those not familiar with the blog, it’s from the dude behind MetaFilter, so it gets a good hit ratio apparently.
Anyway, the hits flattened out again. Then…
What the…? Turns out kottke — the world’s 4th most powerful blog (whatever that means) according to Guardian — also made a mention about the experiment. After that the link started spreading, and sites like Kotaku wrote about the experiment.
So huh… The experiment was, of course, never meant to be taken seriously. It was just an excuse to drink some vodka (Vikingfjord, for the persnickety Mario Karter) and play a video game. It’s kinda hilarious that some people are getting up in arms about the technicalities behind the whole thing. Like: “No, no, no, you need a control, who plays w/o drinking, because people will get better at playing the course as they play it several times.” Well, no, we’ve played the course so many times I doubt we could get much better or worse at it at this rate. But whatever.
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August 22, 2008 10:03 am
WOW am I glad I participated that day. Now I have random Mario viewers looking at my outdated blog. You should get the Today Show in on this one. My cousin was on that show for beanie babies so I am sure you can make it too.