Rush, car culture, and lots of SQUEE!

[pinkpolarity]

Anyone else like to go wiki-surfing? You start off linked to some article on Wikipedia, then end up in some really weird place because you've been link-jumping? I could read that damned site for hours. And have, on many occasions. A couple of days ago, I ended up looking at lists of '80s songs by year, and found an entry for Rush's "Red Barchetta"

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[alice_curiouser]

Anyone else like to go wiki-surfing? You start off linked to some article on Wikipedia, then end up in some really weird place because you've been link-jumping? I could read that damned site for hours.

Is there some other way to do it? :D

[morningwind]

Ah, wiki-surfing: my favorite form of procrastination! Seriously, that site is damned addictive; I have spent hours jumping from article to article when I should've been doing other work. But I always manage to learn something new, so hey, I can't really call it a waste. ;)

[pinkpolarity]

That's what Rob says. "I don't call that 'surfing', I call it 'education'." :)

(Offsite links are some of the best part, too. Otherwise I'd never have discovered that there's a Thelemapedia. I can't say as it makes Uncle Al completely comprehensible, but it *helps*.)

[pinkpolarity]

Oh... you ever read my other Wiki guilty pleasure, Troperville? If not, I might want to wait to link you till after you graduate, or you'll never get your shit done. Most addictive site I've ever found, beating Neopets by a country mile.

[kallistos]

Anyone else like to go wiki-surfing? You start off linked to some article on Wikipedia, then end up in some really weird place because you've been link-jumping? I could read that damned site for hours. And have, on many occasions.

I do it all the time. Constantly.

As someone said, its my favorite form of procrastination and educational activities.

I used to read the Britannica for fun, now I read Wiki.

[pinkpolarity]

I used to read Britannica for fun when I was a kid and play spot-the-errors.

Wiki's more interesting, just to compare where you started to where you ended up. :)

(I ought to send T. a link to this post, since he's probably the only other big Rush fan on my flist.)