Flour Power

In Wikipedia, that is.

Allow me to explain. In this xkcd comic, this factoid about Wikipedia is stated:

Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at “Philosophy”.

Oh really?

So I headed over to a random Wikipedia article and landed in the page for Water Gun. Following the instructions above, and just after following 16 links, I landed in… the Philosophy page!

That’s xkcd being awesome again.

UPDATE: There’s a whole page on Wikipedia about this.

If you value the time you waste watching silly videos on the Internet, just forget about that for 7 minutes and watch this video.

It’s 2 dogs, sitting at a table, having dinner. Doesn’t sound like much, but it’s brilliantly made, and the result is hilarious.

You’re welcome.

Computer-related algorithms can be quite hard to understand, and in some cases a simple visual demonstration makes it so much easier. The IT people in the audience might have seen a few of them, but I’m pretty sure none was quite as peculiar as this.

AlgoRythmics, a folk-dancing group from Romania’s Sapientia University, decided to show how data sorting algorithms work by showing them as dances. Bizarre, right? But strangely mesmerizing, and it sure does the trick of explaining how they work. Until now they did insert-sort, bubble-sort, select-sort and shell-sort. I hear that merge-sort and quick-sort are coming soon.

Check the AlgoRythmics’ Youtube channel for all their videos, and go and support them in their Facebook page. Because they’re just awesome.

(via TheNextWeb)

This LinkedIn profile is just… awesome!

UPDATE: This was in fact part of a more elaborate April Fool’s joke pulled by LinkedIn itself. When accessing the ”People you may know” page, one would be presented with some unlikely connections, like Robin Hood, JRR Tolkien or Albert Einstein.