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21 Feb 2007, 8:38 pm

I love Wikipedia because not only can I spend hours just randomly clicking, but I can connect the most random subjects together. There is the "six degrees of wikipedia" site that does it for in six moves or less, but actually tracing it yourself is fun.

I just traced "economics" to "Steven Spielburg" in thirteen clicks. How random is that? Another time, I started out reading about Nigeria and in a few hours I was reading about the Manhattan Project. Cool!


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21 Feb 2007, 8:40 pm

dexkaden wrote:
I love Wikipedia because not only can I spend hours just randomly clicking, but I can connect the most random subjects together. There is the "six degrees of wikipedia" site that does it for in six moves or less, but actually tracing it yourself is fun.

I just traced "economics" to "Steven Spielburg" in thirteen clicks. How random is that? Another time, I started out reading about Nigeria and in a few hours I was reading about the Manhattan Project. Cool!


If I didn't directly try to curb "wandering aimlessly around the internet" time, I'd be on there twenty hours a week.

At the end of a good space-out session, I'll look at my Firefox window and be disgusted with the 20 tabs I have open, but the topics are definitely rather disparate.



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21 Feb 2007, 8:40 pm

I like Wikipedia but it has some serious issues with certain topics being not even close to objective because of partisan members.



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21 Feb 2007, 8:58 pm

I like Wikipedia, and I even edited the list of banned games in Australia and added Tekken: Dark Resurection to the list as it wasn't on it. I also use it to search for information about video games I like among other things.



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21 Feb 2007, 9:08 pm

I think I've learned far more from Wikipedia than I have from four years of high school.



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21 Feb 2007, 9:38 pm

The thing I probably like the most about Wikipedia is the shear range of topics that are covered.



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21 Feb 2007, 9:41 pm

jimservo wrote:
I like Wikipedia but it has some serious issues with certain topics being not even close to objective because of partisan members.


I think it is pretty good with this considering anyone can register and edit things. I only rarely see 'graffiti' and it is usually erased by the time I refresh.



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22 Feb 2007, 12:11 am

dexkaden wrote:
Another time, I started out reading about Nigeria and in a few hours I was reading about the Manhattan Project. Cool!


Nigeria is shipping yellowcake uranium to Iraq, EVERYBODY PANIC!! ! (I didn't even have to look that one up, I remember it very clearly; F*ing Bush)


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22 Feb 2007, 12:31 am

T-rav20 wrote:
dexkaden wrote:
Another time, I started out reading about Nigeria and in a few hours I was reading about the Manhattan Project. Cool!


Nigeria is shipping yellowcake uranium to Iraq, EVERYBODY PANIC!! ! (I didn't even have to look that one up, I remember it very clearly; F*ing Bush)


What? I started with Nigeria, then to Coal (as it is one of their exports), then world energy consumption, then uranium, then the manhattan project. I never once read anything about yellowcake uranium, and actually, the yellowcake article never mentioned anything about Nigeria.


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22 Feb 2007, 4:38 am

I can get lost in Wikipedia for hours, following links from one thing to another.



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22 Feb 2007, 4:43 am

Whoops, wrong country! :oops: (Guess I should have looked it up)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake_forgery


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