Thursday, August 16, 2012

Far too interesting Wikipedia Pages (by category)

Warning: This post could lead to a serious waste of time (source).

Dude,

Just to kill your productivity today, over the past few weeks I've been bookmarking Wikipedia pages I have found far too interesting. This says something. I'm not sure if it says something about Wikipedia, my browsing habits, or if it explains how Google knows I'm a male in my 30's, but none the less I felt it was worth sharing with you... and I guess the world.

Also I organized them into arbitrary categories to kill my productivity for the day. We're even.

Criteria
Of course this all varies from user to user. My criteria for considering Wikipedia pages to be too interesting is if they meet one of the following:
Interesting
There are a number of things in the universe that are just plain interesting. These will prepare you for that cocktail party you've always been afraid of not having anything to talk about at.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon

Unknown Before
Something that was completely unknown before found on Wikipedia. Most links fall in this category because there is a lot I don't know. Bonus points if it is related to a topic I already know about.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation_(chess)

Basically Hidden
Something incredibly basic that has a surprising amount of interesting information. A little harder to find because you have to read (or at least scroll) most of the article.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid

Surprising List
A list that when you first see it you wonder why it exist in the first place, but as you read it you wonder why you’ve never heard of this list before.
Example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst

 Interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_the_Moon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_Equation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

Unknown Before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_object
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctuation_(chess)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volley_gun
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_window_fallacy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(novel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_Field
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quicksort
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Cats
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer_8
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%27s_disk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_(image)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronostasis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup (The guy that invented C++ lives down the street!)

Basically Hidden
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_entropy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_(image)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ayoade
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_refactoring
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale (If this doesn't boggle your mind, you don't get it)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_development_process
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_pack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympus_Mons (specifically the picture compairing it to Mt. Everest)

Surprising List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_commercial_failures_in_video_gaming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_considered_the_worst
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ecma_standards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_astronomical_objects (yes that is a list of lists)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_feuds_in_the_United_States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britain%27s_Best_Sitcom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UFO_sightings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tetris_variants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_issues_in_Jurassic_Park (took all the fear out of Velociraptors)

Fair warning, there could be a follow up someday.

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