Wikipedia is annoyingly addictive
 

I just managed to get from Ahmadinejad to deja vu, after about an hour and a half of reading.

Ahmadinejad > Iran > Persian language > Japan (wondered what the second most common language was) > Ainu language > Ainu > Native Americans > Models of migration to the new world > Pre-Columbian Trans-Oceanic contact > Atlantis > Edgar Cayce > John Titor > Paranormal > Deja Vu

I know a fair bit more about these subjects now though, so can't really complain.

Yeah, I also go on these wild adventures. Yeah, it's annoying.

A couple schoolmates and I used to have Wikipedia races sometimes in class. The goal would be to start from the same article and get to a predetermined one that was entirely unrelated without doing any typing. It was a pretty fun way to pass the time. http://discussworldissues.com/forums...es/tongue1.gif

Dude...

http://futuremark.yougamers.com/foru...ead.php?t=9482

hehe, i felt like a moron for an minute, but then I realized that the other thread was more than a year old.. http://discussworldissues.com/forums...es/tongue1.gif

It's good to see we're not the only ones to do that though.

I know what you mean. I sometimes will have 50 tabs open in Firefox just reading up on things.

i drag tabs between firefox on another monitor...

it sure is a fun way to becoming a nerd... http://discussworldissues.com/forums...ies/blink1.gif

I do it constantly. Wiki is definitely addicting, long wild tangents.[thumbup]

I thought I was the only one that did that...

Wikipedia is going to create a race of super nerds... Thank goodness there's Conservapedia to balance it all out.

I realized the irony of it all when I read your post and decided to type "Conservapedia" in my Wikipedia search box... It looks like it's the Fox News of wikis... not that there's anything wrong with that..

I have become a big fan of wikipedia

it is simply THE most beautiful creation on the internet. It is the 21st century Library of Alexandria