Wiki-wandering 4

November 19th, 2007 § 1

You learn something every day, whether you want to or not.
–c.

Wiki Wandering 3

June 4th, 2007 § 0

Fascinating.

–c.
[1] Two tricks by Guy, the second of which is his famous “Reformation”.
[2] One of my favourite albums of all time.
[3] ALL TEH W00T!!!
[4] It’s a type of wasp. Tarantula. Hawk. Wasp. Fucking hell.

Wednesday fragments

May 30th, 2007 § 1

I was having a good long Wiki-wander yesterday, when I happened across one of the very first things I ever saw on the intertubes, and it’s still there. I give you the Mystical Smoking Head of Bob.

I also discovered today the rather fun Web 2.0 Stripes Generator. You might have great enjoy!

I spent a good deal of time berating Damien Rice for trading on the glories of his album “O” for so so soooo long, but today I listened to his follow-up, “9“. It’s fucking great. It’s glorious, in fact. Even better than “O”. Get on it.

West Side Story cats FTW!

Easy now,
–c.

Wiki Wandering 2

May 16th, 2007 § 0

This is a long one – Muse to Eddie Izzard via James Bond, Trotsky and The Silver Surfer.

Check it:

Clickety click.
–c.

Tank Sayle

February 5th, 2007 § 0

As an example of the previously mentioned Wiki Wandering, I give you:

The T-34 Tank to Alexei Sayle, in 9 moves.

T-34 (clicked on from the Wikipedia front page) links to World War II, which links to Adolf Hitler (duh), which links to Friedrich Nietzsche, which links to Sigmund Freud, which links to cocaine (he was mad for it), which links to Cocaine (song), which links to Eric Clapton, which links to The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball, which links to Alexei Sayle.

Have I learnt anything? Maybe. Did I enjoy my last ten minutes? Definitely.
–c.

XKCD imitates Axemonkey

January 24th, 2007 § 0

I was going to post the other day about a new web habit of mine, but I couldn’t think of a good name for it, so I scrapped the post and did something else. I shall now name it “Wiki Wandering“.

Go to Wikipedia, and type in the first thing that comes to mind. If nothing comes to mind, here are a couple of suggestions:

  • Denmark
  • Gibson Flying V
  • Marmite
  • Fridge Magnets
  • Hummus
  • Spandau Ballet.

Now idly read a bit of the resulting entry on whatever you chose. The moment you see something that links to something else that sounds even a teeny bit interesting, abandon your first page, click the link and read some more. Repeat.

It’s a great way to spend half an hour, doing what I think of as “Passive Research“, or “The Eddie Izzard Technique“.

Thus, I was greatly amused this morning by the latest comic over at XKCD.

–c.

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