Wikipedia is addicting. Seriously.
After spending the better part of my day shopping with the roommate and cooking, I decided to have a nice, low-key Saturday night with my laptop. It started with getting a little more caught up with “Heroes,” an addicting show in itself (if you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend that you do). Coming off my “Heroes” high, I then went on Wikipedia to refresh my memory of past episodes and characters as well as to see if I could get any new insights on the show.
What was supposed to be a quick stop at Wikipedia turned into getting lost in that beautiful website for two hours. Starting Point: “Heroes,” Ending Point: “Kyrill, Prince of Preslav.” Here’s a more detailed account of the Wikipath I took:
- Heroes
- List of characters in Heroes
- List of comic book superpowers
- Morphing
- Psychokinesis
- Eidetic memory
- Sergei Rachmaninoff
- Hyperthymesia
- Clairvoyance
- Psychometry
- Pyrokinesis
- Nora Zehetner
- Eric Roberts
- Mythology of Heroes
- Baily’s beads
- 9
- 9 (number)
- Naegele’s rule
- Nine Unknown Men
- 0.999…
- 7
- 7 (number)
- White dwarf
- Stellar classification
- Tam Lin
- Ganges
- Vaimanika Shastra
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- It was a dark and stormy night…
- Paul Clifford
- Seven Sleepers
- July 27
- Adam Biddle (footballer)
- Kyrill, Prince of Preslav
Man, Wikipedia is awesome. I mean, look at how much I learned on a Saturday night when classes aren’t even in session. Seriously. Who needs college when I’ve got Wikipedia?
Wikipedia is definitely fantastic. This post reminds me of a game I created in Computer Art in 12th grade. “Wikipediation” I’d give some of my friends in class a start word or phrase and an end one and they’d compete to see who could get there the fastest by only clicking links in the articles. Sometimes we’d have random guest competitors as people we knew would pass by in the hall and come in and play. Ha. Everyone ended up developing their own methods to get to things, like Grant would always maneuver to the United States page, from which he would proceed to what he figured made sense connection wise.
Also, I bet the .999… page is interesting. (I won’t go at the moment, since I am in the middle of a comment) I presume its about the argument that .9 repeated is the same thing as 1 though, which is a fun thing to rap your mind around.
Comment by Generally Bored — January 27, 2009 @ 4:44 pm
Looks like I wrote practically as much as you did in your whole article. Ha.
Comment by Generally Bored — January 27, 2009 @ 4:44 pm