Monday, September 28, 2009

Embrace the Wikipedia "Random Article" Button

It's like pulling a random book of a library shelf. Or putting your finger on a spinning globe and seeing where you end up. Only now, randomly searching for things isn't nearly as cumbersome as it used to be. Libraries are always closed. Globes? I know no one with a globe anymore (WTF?)

Thankfully, the internet has negated such arcane psuedo-educational wastes of time. Now such endeavors are only a click away. Enter, the Wikipedia stumble button. It's right there, right above that search box on the left side of your screen.

Go ahead. Click it.

In the past thirty seconds I learned that Pirili is a small village in Azerbijan, and that a band named Suffocation released an album in 1998 called "Despise the Sun" (the album's last track previously appeared on their "Human Waste" EP. I learned that Eremobina is a type of insect in the moth genus. I've got a list of former synagogues in Jerusalem. It turns out, the Nile is just a river in Egypt, too, and this is what it's name looks like in hieroglyphics.



The opportunities are endless. So, go ahead. The boss isn't looking. Click. What did you find?

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