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.

In today’s xkcd comic, Randall Munroe explores the future using Google’s top search results for queries like “by the year <year>”, “in the year <year>” and “in year <year>, * will”. It’s a nice and easy way to have a quick snapshot of what is being written around the web about the future.

This is not the first time Randall has used Google search results as the basis of his comics. Also worth checking are Google results for various phrases, frequency of strip versions of various games, and the trochee chart.

(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.

Remember those little LCD hand-held games that were around before the Game Boy? Well, someone took upon themselves to make them playable in a browser. There’s 17 of them available so far, and more to come soon.

What a nostalgic way to waste a few hours…