New Wikipedia Game, Brought to you by XKCD

“If you take any article, click on the first link in the article not in parenthesis or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy”.“ - xkcd

The game, then, must be played thusly:

  1. Click Random Article from the Wikipedia sidebar.
  2. Click the first link in the article not in parenthisis or italics.
  3. Track how many clicks it takes to get to the article on ”Philosophy“. The fewer clicks the better.

First round:

From the random article on Kaga, Ishikawa, I got to “Philosophy” in 18 clicks. For added fun, track the path you took to get there:

This game proves that all things begin with Philosophy. (I once made up a variation of this game using the article on “Baby Got Back”. That proved nothing.)


This shirt is a pixelated “Princess Bride”/video-game reference. That you can buy on the Internet. It’s everything I love. (via Woot)

Dear Tina Fey

Note from 2022 Rachel: God I now absolutely hate this post

—

In your book (which is wonderful, by the way), towards the end (SPOILER ALERT), you mention a theory:

I have a suspicion—and hear me out, ’cause this is a rough one—I have a suspicion that the definition of “crazy” in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to fuck her anymore. … This is the infuriating thing that dawns on you one day: Even if you would never sleep with or even flirt with anyone to get ahead, you are being sexually adjudicated by these LA creeps. Network executives really do say things like “I don’t know. I don’t want to fuck anybody on this show.” … (To any exec who has ever said that about me, I would hope you would at least have the intelligence and self-awareness to know that the feeling is extremely mutual.)

There is also a point in your book where you address some ass-hats on the Internet who’ve written you ill-guided, semi-illiterate missives. So in the hope of becoming one of those ass-hats, I just wanted to say:

Every smart, funny, attractive boy I know between the ages of 18 and 60 wants to fuck you. Literally every boy.

I just thought you should know.

Good luck with all your future endeavours, and thank you for being super-great.

Sincerely,

A girl who sort of wants to be you (kinda. a little. totally.)

The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. “The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can’t take it.”

Tinay Fey, on New Yorkers and getting a manicure, in the absolutely wonderful Bossypants.

It’s so unfair! I have eight other senses, but I’d trade them all, even smision, to be able to taste.

-Bender, The 30% Iron Chef

The 7 Emails You’re Ignoring In Your Inbox

What’s this? Some sort of new image sharing site?

Note from 2022 Rachel: It was, but it is now defunct

My MlkShk brings all the boys to the yard.

[dead link]

Nope.

Visiting Home

Sometimes Married To The Sea is just so good.

Google celebrates the 76th Birthday of Roger Hargreaves, creator of the wonderful Mr. Men series. 

I love time lapse videos an unreasonable amount. This one, by Dominic Boudreault shows North American cities and landscapes over the course of a year, combined with an epic score.

Allie Brosh explains a book. Specifically, her book! Excitement! 

Source: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com

fuckyeahbreakfast!

I made eggs cooked in a cheese sauce, topped with sautéed asparagus and peppers, served on a ciabatta bun with salsa on the side. I felt very fancy.

Jessica Dovey did not intend to become the epicenter of an Internet-wide discussion about the nature of quotation, attribution, and Osama bin Laden. Yet that’s exactly what happened when Dovey’s Facebook-status sentiment — “I will mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy” — became entangled with a Martin Luther King, Jr. quote she also posted. Within a day and through no fault of her own, Dovey’s words had gone viral, misattributed to King.

The (Shy) Woman Whose Words Accidentally Became Martin Luther King’s

I think there used to be a video link here but I truly have no idea to what this refers. -Rachel, 2023

I imagine that the actual title of this show is “Kittens Sit in Bowls while a Child Sings an Adorable Cover of a Beatles Song and People Shriek About How Cute it Is”. 

American TV, take note.

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My battery’s been charging for about four hours. When it started charging it said it had about an hour and half left. When I glanced at it two hours ago, it said 7hrs, and now somehow it’s at 18+? Apple battery does not know how to count. (Count DOWN, stupid!) … Think this is somehow related to the fact that I had to buy a new charger today? (Old charger, why? Why you fry my battery counter? … also how?)

Note from 2022 Rachel: That Battery eventually literally exploded