Word of the day
Like Les, only I make them up. Today’s word is Perpetual-Wiki-Loop: The process whereby you look something up on Wikipedia and thirty minutes later find yourself reading something else on Wikipedia completely unrelated to the initial thing you looked up and wondering where that thirty minutes just went.
I found myself reading about The Census of Quirinius thirty minutes after I was reading about The Violent Femmes.
I don’t know how it happened.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:32 am
Anyone stupid enough to use Wikipedia as a “reliable” source deserves exactly what they find.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:38 am
Yes, they have such a bias against The Violent Femmes 😉
July 13th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
All references have issues, Wikipedia is as good as any as a starting point.
My best Perpetual-Wiki-Loop have me starting out with the Crimean war and ending up at Aquaman.
July 13th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Only thirty minutes? I need to write a grease-monkey script to cut me off at 30 minutes.
July 13th, 2007 at 12:32 pm
I refer to it as Wiki-creep and 30 minutes is on the low end! 😉
July 13th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Six degrees of Wikipedia.
July 15th, 2007 at 1:25 pm
Back in the olden days (well, actually it still happens on occasion), I’d go to a dictionary to look up a word, and find myself in an unrelated corner of the dictionary some (usually long) time later.
The original Perpetual-Wiki-Loop, at least for me.
July 16th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
[…] one of those late-night Perpetual-Wiki-Loops led me to the full text of Dahl’s original story and the whole Hitchcock episode on YouTube. […]