Friday, June 3, 2011

Friday Fun: The Wikipedia Game

Want to waste about 3 minutes of your life on a Friday sitting in front of your computer? OK? Awesome, let's go.

So I was reading XKCD.com, which I would suggest doing, unless you are adverse to the cultural callousness that is, well, our culture. And one of the hover-over's tipped me off on a quirky little fact/game.
Wikipedia Trivia via XKCD.com:
Visit any (major?) Wikipedia article and click on the first blue link that isn't in (parenthesis) or italics and you will eventually land on the PHILOSOPHY page.
Now I would argue that you actually land on the METAPHYSICS page, but of course you then enter a neverending loop of Philosophy -> Metaphysics, so who knows. Go try it! (Note: I am sure there are some little Wiki-pages that have no links where you can game this, but yeah if you are that person... well then yay for you.)

Here is my journey, I started with Antidisestablishmentarianism, and each subsequent word is the first linked word according to the rules. (Words in parenthesis are the landing page if different):
Antidisestablishmentarianism -> Britain (United Kingdom) -> Sovereign state -> State -> Social Sciences -> Fields (Academic Discipline) -> Academic (Academia) -> Community -> Interacting (Interaction) -> Causal (Causality) -> Events (Event [Philosophy]) -> PHILOSOPHY -> Metaphyiscs =>> Philosophy
So there you have it. Try it yourself!


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