Today on XKCD the alt text says that if you click the first hyperlink on any page in wikipedia that is not in parentheses or in italics, and repeat that process, you will eventually end up at Philosophy.
I checked Lake Trout. 13 clicks later I was at philosophy.
From Tauroctony, 24 clicks.
From Nachos, 19 clicks.
From Magick, 19 clicks.
Head for the Red: The ongoing adventures and insights of a magician's attempts to accomplish the Great Work.
I keep falling into an endless loop once I hit "fact."
ReplyDeleteI did that test too, but my range was in the 10-12 clicks, guess i just got luckier with the random articles
ReplyDeletenot in parens or italics. I hit a loop for a while, but then realized I was clicking the ones in parentheses.
ReplyDeleteManolo Blahnik (the expensive shoe guy) = 13 clicks
ReplyDeleteFlywheel Engine = 16 clicks
American Idol = 7 clicks
Dungeons & Dragons = 33 clicks
Yup.
Do it automatically via
ReplyDeletehttp://ryanelmquist.com/cgi-bin/xkcdwiki
aren't ya glad someone else writes code for us ? :-)
West Germany is a loop
ReplyDeletephilosophy -> reason -> rationality -> philosophy. Does this count as 3 clicks or a loop? lol it's like asking if 0/0=0.
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