{"id":1169,"date":"2011-06-13T16:16:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:16:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2011-06-13T16:16:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T16:16:40","slug":"its-the-xkcd-wikipedia-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/2011\/06\/13\/its-the-xkcd-wikipedia-meme\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s the xkcd Wikipedia meme!"},"content":{"rendered":"

(via DrugMonkey<\/a>, who got it from WhizBANG<\/a>).<\/p>\n

“Click on the first link not in parentheses \u00a0in any Wikipedia entry. Keep doing this and eventually, you end up at Philosophy”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who would ever have guessed that my favourite team and my former field of study share so much – and that the Canucks are closer to philosophy than the viruses?!<\/p>\n

Starting with Vancouver Canucks<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Ice hockey<\/li>\n
  2. Team sport<\/li>\n
  3. Sport<\/li>\n
  4. Organized (redirects to Organization)<\/li>\n
  5. Social group<\/li>\n
  6. Social sciences<\/li>\n
  7. Fields (redirects to List of academic disciplines)<\/li>\n
  8. Academic (redirects to Academia)<\/li>\n
  9. Community<\/li>\n
  10. Living<\/li>\n
  11. Life<\/li>\n
  12. Objects (redirects to Physical body)<\/li>\n
  13. Physics<\/li>\n
  14. Natural science<\/li>\n
  15. Naturalistic (redirects to Naturalism (Philosophy))<\/li>\n
  16. Philosophical (redirects to Philosophy<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Starting with endogenous retrovirus<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Germ cells<\/li>\n
    2. Biological cell (redirects to Cell (biology))<\/li>\n
    3. Robert Hooke<\/li>\n
    4. FRS (redirects to Royal Society – Fellows subheading)<\/li>\n
    5. List of Fellows of the Royal Society<\/li>\n
    6. Royal Society of London (redirects to Royal Society)<\/li>\n
    7. Learned society<\/li>\n
    8. Organization<\/li>\n
    9. Social group<\/li>\n
    10. Social sciences<\/li>\n
    11. Fields (redirects to List of academic disciplines)<\/li>\n
    12. Academic (redirects to Academia)<\/li>\n
    13. Community<\/li>\n
    14. Living<\/li>\n
    15. Life<\/li>\n
    16. Objects (redirects toPhysical body)<\/li>\n
    17. Physics<\/li>\n
    18. Natural science<\/li>\n
    19. Naturalistic (redirects to Naturalism (Philosophy))<\/li>\n
    20. Philosophical (redirects to Philosophy<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      But dessert is clearly much more important than either science or sport:<\/p>\n

      Starting with custard<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

        \n
      1. Milk<\/li>\n
      2. Mammary gland<\/li>\n
      3. Organ<\/li>\n
      4. Biology<\/li>\n
      5. Natural science<\/li>\n
      6. Naturalistic (redirects to Naturalism (Philosophy))<\/li>\n
      7. Philosophical (redirects to Philosophy<\/strong>)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Yay, custard!<\/p>\n

        GO CUSTARD GO! WE WANT THE BOWL! ONE MORE SPOON! WOOOOOO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

        (or something).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        (via DrugMonkey, who got it from WhizBANG). “Click on the first link not in parentheses \u00a0in any Wikipedia entry. Keep doing this and eventually, you end up at Philosophy”. Who would ever have guessed that my favourite team and my … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,27,3,25,37,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-glorious-food","category-meme","category-science","category-silliness","category-sport","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/vwxynot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}