I Am A Wiki Whore
I confess, I think Wikipedia is one of the greatest inventions that we have managed to come up with in this modern day an age.
Think about it, what has been essential to the continued progress and development of any society? Yeah, the dissemination and assimilation of knowledge. Call me superficial, but I believe Jimbo Wales's invention is right up there with the Gutenberg Bible in terms of milestones in the development of human knowledge.
One of my favourite things to do right now is to go on the Wikipedia main page, take a look at the events of the day, and just explore. I recall as a Secondary School student I once suggested I do a similar 'Event of the Day' to be written on the whiteboard every morning before school begun. The fledgling project was discontinued after I ran out of ideas, sadly.
But now Wiki does it for me. The most amazing thing that I can attribute to it is my waking up from a sort of daze after a 'Wiki Journey', and discovering that almost an hour has passed between my first link click to my final word read.
That's the thing about Wiki that impresses upon you, everything's connected in more ways than you can realise. For example today I went to search 'April Fool's Day', discovered that certain cartoonists switched strips to commemorate the occasion, leafed through a description of Foxtrot, which led me onto Boondocks, a great commentator on political issues, which finally led me on to the issue of interracial marriage which was discussed within it.
I've lost track of how many times I've undertaken such a journey. It's great. It also resonates within me the ancient Taoist idea, hijacked by George Lucas for his Star Wars series, that all things are interconnected, every thing has an effect on another thing. Go onto Wikipedia.org and find out for yourself, you'll find yourself idly clicking on one link, and then another, and then another, and you'll won't realise an hour has gone by while you were enlightening yourselves.
This is the sort of thing that needs to be invented more, rather than robots who can play football.
Finn Solomon 2:49 AM
PROFILE
Sulaiman Daud a.k.a. Finn Solomon a.k.a. Dark Solomon, emo boy.
Liverpool FC die-hard. Rafael Benitez is my master.
Arts Student of Tampines College
Fortunate member of the best academic class in Singapore- 06A05
Reporter for the TODAY Newspaper
Fairly liberal Muslim
Technophobe
Quite possibly the biggest Stephen King/Terry Pratchett fanatic in the world
Lover of classic rock- The Beatles, Guns N' Roses, The Who, Led Zeppelin and AC/DCtag
Gemini- This might explain the days when I am insufferably moody. And also the days when I am wildly optimistic.
Dragon- The Chinese Zodiac is intriguingly accurate in its assessment of my character.
Shares a special bond with a special girl from Texas, an amazing woman in Madrid, the erudite psycho of Tampines, an amusing Egyptian and the classy rock lady in Canada, a great friend from the Phillipines, a lovely lass from Venezuela, another one in Sheffield, and the coolest of dudes from Miami, Minnesota and London.
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