November 20, 2008

• Wikipedia crawling

  I'm sure all of you have done this at some point. You would have some free time, go to Wikipedia, and just start browsing through. You'd see a link that interested you, and read more into it, only to find another link. It just keeps going on in a chain. I was at work and decided to list all of the links I followed. I will not alter my browsing in any way (i.e. I won't browse just to look good for this post). I'll just follow what looks interesting. I started with the seed "hubris", just because I wanted to look up the technical definition of the word and its history.
  

  1. Hubris
  2. Narcissism
  3. Narcissus (mythology)
  4. Echo (mythology)
  5. Nemesis (mythology)
  6. Marble
  7. Taj Mahal
  8. New Seven Wonders of the World
  9. Hanging Gardens of Babylon
  10. Archimedes' Screw
  11. Screw propulsion
  12. Metal Gear (fictional mecha weapon)
  13. Cyborg (redirected from Biomechanoid)
  14. Edgar Allan Poe
  15. The Black Cat (short story)
  16. Penknife
  17. Kaiken (dagger)
  18. Obi (sash)
  19. Yukata
  20. Ryokan (Japanese inn)

  At this point, my day at work was done and I had to stop. I somehow managed to jump from ancient Greek mythology to Japanese culture. Ah… the fun involved in letting your mind wander. Maybe I should try this experiment again with Conservapedia.

  • 5:29 am
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