Responsible Behavior

People have observed that this blog can from time to time be characterised as “a nearly impenetrable thicket of geekitude”. I can’t really argue with that, and I have no intention of making any kind of New Year resolution to “mend my ways”.

On the other hand, I do sometimes wonder about rating my posts in terms of a new metric: how many Wikipedia entries would you have to reference to explain this to the man on the Clapham omnibus?

One of my favourite cartoon sites — xkcd.com — also finds the need to peg the MOTCO-meter once in a while. Responsible Behavior is a good example; I have to rate it a four at least:

Do you agree? More interestingly, what do you think the answer will be in ten years?