Youtube: Audio Preview

[LaRoza]

Anyone else notice when you post comments on youtube you get a new option to have it read it to you?

Perhaps Xkcd influenced this?

[billgoldberg]

First the gmail "drunk friday night thing" and now this.

I hope it's because of the comic, that was spot on. :p

[brunovecchi]

Yes, there's a current trend of trying to make xkcd comics happen.
They gave Stallman a katana as a present (http://comments.deasil.com/2007/05/06/art-life-imitation-richard-stallman/), Cory Doctorow dressed up with a goggles and a red cape (http://flickr.com/photos/doctorow/1853482125/), they acted out the 'I love the whole world' strip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvGhEJyfC7U), and it goes on and on.
It's really intriguing because whenever you read a new xkcd comic you know that somewhere there's a bunch of people trying to make it real.

Here's another one: playing chess on a roller coaster (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/07/18/xkcd-fans-bring-ches.html).