MIND. BLOWN.

[rena_librarian]

xkcd is always amazing. Today's is about Wikipedia. The mouseover text describes a game, of sorts:

"Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy"."

Which sounds funny, and you could laugh it off...

...but I went and tried it, and so far it's worked for the articles:
Darren Criss
Lord of the Rings
Kitten
Mai Tai
Sephora
Abbey Dawn
Hello Kitty
Justin Bieber (at this point I was trying to be silly)
Dick and Jane
Slush (as in, the beverage)
Lady Gaga discography
Wikipedia
Synchronicity
xkcd
Troll (Internet)
MyLifeIsAverageand yes, Philosophy.

MIND. BLOWN.

Comments

[infernalearache.livejournal.com]

This actually does not work if you start at the article "Phallic". It takes you in a circle between languages and Ancient Reek culture. >( Dissapointed kitty is dissapoint.

[infernalearache.livejournal.com]

hahaha ancient reek. Ancient GREEK. And disappointed is better than the dis-sappointed.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Actually when I did it last night I got to a point where when I hit the article "science" I'd quit clicking because I knew it got to Philosophy eventually. =/ But now it's not working like that.

YOU BROKE IT. WHORE.

Lol.

[lisacharly.livejournal.com]

'Amy Poehler' also breaks this. You end up forever stuck between transmission and telecommunications.

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Well crap. Maybe I should start a list and send it to Randall Munroe.

[natural-blue-26.livejournal.com]

How about Kevin Bacon? Do his 6degrees of himself get inthe way of this? ;)

[rena-librarian.livejournal.com]

Nope! That gets to Philosophy! =)