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Wikipedia is your lord
so out of no where i've come down with what appears to be a respiratory infection - yay.
my to do list is getting woefully neglected... but OTOH, propped up in a daze, i've been poking around the wikipedia...
you all probably already know how amazing this thing is... me, i'm usually a late adopter. let them work the bugs out... then i'll see if its actually a good idea kind of thing...
i've already pretty much use it for referencing things i should know, or used to know and forgot... sort of basic things, that you know you'd use an actual encyclopedia for.... particularly in the areas of history, geography, science, or politics... like what was the franco-prussian war again?, where is Abu-Dhabi? What are the factions dividing Columbia?
so you know i've been aware of it, and used it... but i never just sat down, and scoured through it... followed one topic to another, to another... to another... and so on...
its truly remarkable!
A friend recently pointed out to me the random link, and proved wiki just as good for Pop-culture searches when pulling up "Mall Rats"... but my newfound adoration
all started yesterday when i was trying to finally pin down who performed the vocals on Velvet Underground's "Afterhours"... i'd heard (and read) that it was Niko, but i knew that _had_ to be wrong (because they don't suck) ...i've wondered about this for years, but never made a concerted effort to figure it out. ... so finally yesterday, as is my habit i decided to ask The Oracle ...but none of the immediate links were any good... (either no vocals credited, or credited to niko) on the second page it lead me to the Wikipedia page on VU... which not only answered the question, but linked, as the wikipedia is want to do, to another page devote entirely to Maureen "Moe" Tucker their drummer... and the vocalist in question.
i found all the information on the band, moe and others interesting - particularly that moe last worked for walmart - and enlightening... and having nothing much better to do at that moment, being sick and all...i kept poking around... next following the link to the article on Beckett (who i've been interested in lately anyway - loved waiting for guffman!)... he was an incredibly well rounded man who lead a very rich life...despite choosing the french over the brits?!?!... this biography lead me to tangent articles on the Aosdána and their honorary title Saoi...an interesting interlude Peggy Guggenheim, man was she hooked up... also
John Tunnard... the plays Happy_Days, and Krapp's Last Tape which referenced another place to visit Dún_Laoghaire... the link to Edict_of_Nantes took me in a different irection all together, and i followed it to Louis_XIV_of_France,
which of course necessitated a peek at Chateau_de_Versailles in which i noted Petit_hameau, and a comparison with the (stunning) russian nock off Peterhof... which lead me to review the Siege_of_Leningrad
... this was so far back in my journey i've forgotten some connectors, but eventually i ended up at the Gurka's and a glance at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri (of which i own one)...reviewing the Massacre of Amristsar then of to the Battle_of_Gallipoli, backing up to Gallipoli ...and Turkish_language and Turkey
some more links i forget, and i'm looking up the groundbreaking investigative journalist Nellie_Bly for her work in the asylum on blackwell island off new york, which lead me to nighthawks the disambiguation lead me to nighthawks (film 1981) from the bad movie Victory to the history of the team that inspired it FC_Dynamo_Kyiv...
...again thats just the links i can remember following in the course of a nights reading... refreshing and expanding some things i knew,as well as many entirely new discoveries.. reaching as far back as the Byzantine empire..to films and plays in the last decade... in the process touching on heros, murderers, worriers, leaders, reporters, playwrights, directors and actors... on every continent on the earth. wow.
its ASTOUNDING the wealth of knowledge, accumulated here, so readily accessible, and the organic way you can use hyper links to blossom your research is phenomenal. We are truly in the information age... I can't imagine what it must be like to grow up in this erra... from elementary school to collage, this one reference point is all you need for all your research ... you don't need to understand the dewy decimal system, you don't nee to stay late at the library, you don't even need to leave your house, or get up from your chair... and what this must do for home schoolers jesus
my to do list is getting woefully neglected... but OTOH, propped up in a daze, i've been poking around the wikipedia...
you all probably already know how amazing this thing is... me, i'm usually a late adopter. let them work the bugs out... then i'll see if its actually a good idea kind of thing...
i've already pretty much use it for referencing things i should know, or used to know and forgot... sort of basic things, that you know you'd use an actual encyclopedia for.... particularly in the areas of history, geography, science, or politics... like what was the franco-prussian war again?, where is Abu-Dhabi? What are the factions dividing Columbia?
so you know i've been aware of it, and used it... but i never just sat down, and scoured through it... followed one topic to another, to another... to another... and so on...
its truly remarkable!
A friend recently pointed out to me the random link, and proved wiki just as good for Pop-culture searches when pulling up "Mall Rats"... but my newfound adoration
all started yesterday when i was trying to finally pin down who performed the vocals on Velvet Underground's "Afterhours"... i'd heard (and read) that it was Niko, but i knew that _had_ to be wrong (because they don't suck) ...i've wondered about this for years, but never made a concerted effort to figure it out. ... so finally yesterday, as is my habit i decided to ask The Oracle ...but none of the immediate links were any good... (either no vocals credited, or credited to niko) on the second page it lead me to the Wikipedia page on VU... which not only answered the question, but linked, as the wikipedia is want to do, to another page devote entirely to Maureen "Moe" Tucker their drummer... and the vocalist in question.
i found all the information on the band, moe and others interesting - particularly that moe last worked for walmart - and enlightening... and having nothing much better to do at that moment, being sick and all...i kept poking around... next following the link to the article on Beckett (who i've been interested in lately anyway - loved waiting for guffman!)... he was an incredibly well rounded man who lead a very rich life...despite choosing the french over the brits?!?!... this biography lead me to tangent articles on the Aosdána and their honorary title Saoi...an interesting interlude Peggy Guggenheim, man was she hooked up... also
John Tunnard... the plays Happy_Days, and Krapp's Last Tape which referenced another place to visit Dún_Laoghaire... the link to Edict_of_Nantes took me in a different irection all together, and i followed it to Louis_XIV_of_France,
which of course necessitated a peek at Chateau_de_Versailles in which i noted Petit_hameau, and a comparison with the (stunning) russian nock off Peterhof... which lead me to review the Siege_of_Leningrad
... this was so far back in my journey i've forgotten some connectors, but eventually i ended up at the Gurka's and a glance at the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri (of which i own one)...reviewing the Massacre of Amristsar then of to the Battle_of_Gallipoli, backing up to Gallipoli ...and Turkish_language and Turkey
some more links i forget, and i'm looking up the groundbreaking investigative journalist Nellie_Bly for her work in the asylum on blackwell island off new york, which lead me to nighthawks the disambiguation lead me to nighthawks (film 1981) from the bad movie Victory to the history of the team that inspired it FC_Dynamo_Kyiv...
...again thats just the links i can remember following in the course of a nights reading... refreshing and expanding some things i knew,as well as many entirely new discoveries.. reaching as far back as the Byzantine empire..to films and plays in the last decade... in the process touching on heros, murderers, worriers, leaders, reporters, playwrights, directors and actors... on every continent on the earth. wow.
its ASTOUNDING the wealth of knowledge, accumulated here, so readily accessible, and the organic way you can use hyper links to blossom your research is phenomenal. We are truly in the information age... I can't imagine what it must be like to grow up in this erra... from elementary school to collage, this one reference point is all you need for all your research ... you don't need to understand the dewy decimal system, you don't nee to stay late at the library, you don't even need to leave your house, or get up from your chair... and what this must do for home schoolers jesus