Comments on: Word of the day

By: The Unforgiving Minute » Classic TV

The Unforgiving Minute » Classic TV — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 22:34:47 +0000

[...] one of those late-night Perpetual-Wiki-Loops led me to the full text of Dahl’s original story and the whole Hitchcock episode on YouTube. [...]

By: Boyd

Boyd — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:25:21 +0000

Back in the olden days (well, actually it still happens on occasion), I’d go to a dictionary to look up a word, and find myself in an unrelated corner of the dictionary some (usually long) time later.

The original Perpetual-Wiki-Loop, at least for me.

By: Ninth Stage

Ninth Stage — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:04:02 +0000

Six degrees of Wikipedia.

By: Todd

Todd — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:32:00 +0000

I refer to it as Wiki-creep and 30 minutes is on the low end!

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:28:49 +0000

Only thirty minutes? I need to write a grease-monkey script to cut me off at 30 minutes.

By: Rick DeMent

Rick DeMent — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:11:48 +0000

All references have issues, Wikipedia is as good as any as a starting point.

My best Perpetual-Wiki-Loop have me starting out with the Crimean war and ending up at Aquaman.

By: SayUncle

SayUncle — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:38:49 +0000

Yes, they have such a bias against The Violent Femmes

By: JustDoIt

JustDoIt — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:32:32 +0000

Anyone stupid enough to use Wikipedia as a “reliable” source deserves exactly what they find.