Oh, those wacky Wikipedians. For a brief time this morning, when I first heard that Michael Crichton had died of cancer, his Wikipedia entry stated that he’d died "after a long, private battle with a velociraptor."
Somehow, I think he would appreciate the joke. The Wikipedia page has since been edited to remove the reference.
I loved the way he wrote about science. It wasn’t always science fiction, per se, but even when he was writing about corporate politics in Airframe, he just had a way of tickling both the literary and scientific parts of my mind. Too bad he won’t give us any more books.
Update: Hey, the New York Times linked to this post!
I know it’s just something Blogrunner automatically picked up, but it still feels pretty cool. The AP, CBS News, IMDB, the LA Times, and TinyScreenfuls.com. 
TinyScreenfuls Feed (this blog)
Goodbye, San Francisco! See you soon! (@ Courtyard Marriott)
That’s cool.
Nice work Josh!
Here’s a similar old version (now since reverted) that declares “Crichton died when he was eaten by a T-Rex.”
Thanks, Steve and Steven!
It was a fun moment. You never know what you’re going to find on Wikipedia! 