With Great Power...

It's almost scary how much power one person can have on the internet. Below is today's xkcd:

And here is the pandemonium that ensued on Wikipedia.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to have a presence like that on the internet, and if it's a good thing or a bad thing. I always imagine Munroe sitting in a dark room, twisting his mustached and laughing manically to himself whenever he submits a new web-comic to his site. Then sitting back in his padded chair the next morning with a hot cup of coffee and a pleased smirk on his face after performing a quick Google search to view the resulting mayhem.