Monday, June 11, 2007

Okay, now I really am going to start posting to my blog. Ideally I'd be writing a novel and making a resolution to write a chapter a week, but I think I'll start small. Here's the challenge - think of something every day that other people would actually be interested in reading.

Here's a fun game that I read about somewhere... Go to Wikipedia and hit "Random article". Keep hitting it until you get to an article that you recognize (i.e. not an obscure Welsh train station or Slovenian member of parliament). Then hit "Random article" again. Your challenge: get back to the previous article by clicking on links in each page. Using features like "What links here" or searching within a page isn't allowed, and to make it more of a challenge you can exclude "list" pages too.

For example, you can get from "Taplan, South Australia" to "Balloon swallower" via South Australia -> Convictism in Australia -> Prison -> Crime -> Smuggling.

Hours of excitement.

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