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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:09 pm

I got to it from an article about the powers of Godzilla. Pretty cool.
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Chris Cross Cabaret Man
 
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:30 pm

So, anyone played this game seeing what happens if you use the second link instead of the first?

Damn you, Deffers. Now I'll be on Wikipedia for five days straight.
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Nicholas C
 
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 3:34 pm

South Park
Television in the United States
Television
Telecommunication
Transmission
Transmission medium
solid
States of matter
Phase
Physical science
Natural science
science
Knowledge
Fact
Information
Sequence
Mathematics
Quantity
Property
Modern philosophy
Philosophy

I thought it would have taken a bit longer.
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:50 am

Natural science
science
Knowledge
Fact
Information
Sequence
Mathematics
Quantity
Property
Modern philosophy
Philosophy

I just stop whenever I hit one of these.
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Nicholas C
 
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 12:32 am

I just stop whenever I hit one of these.

You can also include Existence, Sense and Physiology.
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phil walsh
 
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:06 am

Gave this a go, started at Cheese, it worked.

Mind == Blown
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Scott Clemmons
 
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:12 am

Started with Russian Far East, wound up at Philosophy, ha!
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Harry-James Payne
 
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:44 pm

Tried it a few days back, I found myself in an infinite loop.
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steve brewin
 
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:19 pm

Now I want to see if I can find any articles that link to Philosophy without first linking to Science, excluding obvious ones like philosophers or philosophy fields.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:32 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_(philosophy)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequence
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fact
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larsenia_scalaroides

Read from the bottom up.

Another fun that "Site that shall not be named" thought up was to click random article, and using any available link within that article, and so on, in order to get to Hitler's article in the fewest moves possible.

Lets try that one out:
International Rhino Foundation -> South Africa -> United Party of South Africa -> World War II -> Adolf Hitler
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:01 am

It's like TVTropes. http://xkcd.com/609/
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RObert loVes MOmmy
 
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 7:05 pm

Well, in my search for more articles which don't lead to philosophy I've come across http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/phalus_hadriani. Yes, the caption below that picture says "the pink volva".

I have to grow up.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 9:31 pm

Oh this is brilliant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male <-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender
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Adam Porter
 
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 4:30 am

At first I thought this was a Wikipedia version of the Collatz conjecture but it turns out it has more holes than Swiss cheese.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:58 pm

It's like TVTropes. http://xkcd.com/609/


I find this strange because a lot of people link and talk about TVTropes, yet I don't find it interesting at all. The format of the website has a lot to do about this though...
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 5:23 am

Read from the bottom

Spoiler
Today - Saturday, May 28, 2011
1:18 PM
Natural science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:18 PM
Physics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:18 PM
Observable - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:18 PM
Event - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:18 PM
Causality - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:18 PM
Interaction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Community - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Academia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
List of academic disciplines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Social sciences - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
State (polity) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Sovereign state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Nation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Greeks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Greek language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Ancient Greek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Taxonomy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Human - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Language family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:17 PM
Indo-European languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:16 PM
Italic languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:16 PM
Latin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:16 PM
Science - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:16 PM
Biology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:16 PM
Organism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Chemistry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Matter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Chemical substance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Water - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Stream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Tributary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:15 PM
Furc?oara River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1:14 PM
Wikipedia:Random - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:33 am

I didn't make it. Started with Sherlock (TV Show), passed through "state", eventually got to the Greeks and that sent me back to state.
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 10:18 am

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Single-player video game
Video game
Electronic game
Game
Play (activity) <- almost hit it here, psychology is the second link, just missed it!
Ethology
Zoology
Biology
Natural science
Science

and continues as in post 1 of this thread:

Knowledge
Fact
Information
Sequence
Mathematics
Quantity
Property (philosophy)
Modern philosophy
Philosophy
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 11:25 pm

I didn't make it. Started with Sherlock (TV Show), passed through "state", eventually got to the Greeks and that sent me back to state.

  • Sherlock (TV series)
  • Hartswood Films
  • United Kingdom
  • Sovereign state
  • State (polity)
  • Social sciences
  • List of academic disciplines
  • Academia
  • Community
  • Interaction
  • Causality
  • Event
  • Observable
  • Physics
  • Natural science
  • Science

Continues towards Philosophy.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:24 pm

I didn't make it. Started with Sherlock (TV Show), passed through "state", eventually got to the Greeks and that sent me back to state.


Mmm, you must have done it wrong. Mine followed exactly like Veeno's.
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 6:44 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_mechanics

:whisper: it takes you to wiktionary, from which there is no escape :whisper:

Well I got to philosophy from there. :shrug: Now you're caught my interest, so I'm off to try it with some random articles.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:54 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_mechanics

:whisper: it takes you to wiktionary, from which there is no escape :whisper:

Middle English isn't in parenthesis or italics, so you can escape. :chaos:
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:41 am

Mind blown. I went from Science to Philosiphy in 30 seconds.
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Post » Tue Nov 02, 2010 7:35 am

Now you're caught my interest, so I'm off to try it with some random articles.

Or you can just skim through this topic and see what we've already found.
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Post » Mon Nov 01, 2010 10:04 pm

Well, I just tried doing it starting from Philosiphy.
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