Help I'm addicted to Wikipedia.

[walrus]

Help I'm addicted to Wikipedia. Ive got twenty Wikipedia pages open (Really twenty, I've had more), I get partway through a page and I start clicking "open in a new tab" usually three or four times. So do the math 3x4x3x4x5x4...

I cant remember what my first Wikipedia inquiry was. And I have three Slate tabs open,they are almost as bad, too and one to the library, so I can order books, from the Wikipedia pabes. Been speed reading them and deleting for the last ten min.

But dam!!! There is so much to learn out there. I need to go to sleep, what am I gonna do? Bookmark twenty pages, and twenty more tomorrow?

 

[Ika]

shut off your brain

 

[QueBert]

Sometimes when I'm bored I'll look up something I'm interested in on Wikipedia and start randomly clicking on links inside it, before long I find myself somewhere totally unrelated to the original page. I've read and learned a lot from there, can't say most of it was useful. But it's a good way to kill time and get your fill of useless trivia.

 

[Colt45]

I DL'd all of wikipedia once, sans media. Think it was 160GB unzipped, a year ago. (just the text/html)

 

[polarbear6]

Originally posted by: walrus
So do the math 3x4x3x4x5x4...

this is not the number of pages that is open , but my friend its the rate at which ur iq is increasing

i wish i was that very passionate about learning new stuff
these days iam seeing my text book reading also a burden

 

[lizardboy]

the problem with wikipedia (so true)

http://xkcd.com/214/

 

[Spoooon]

Thank god for wikipedia. That's all I do at work when I need to kill time.