Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> I wonder how all this common knowledge becomes "common"?
> 
>   You could start by exploring wikipedia. Start from something which
> interests you, for example "Half-Life 2" or "Haskell", and read the
> articles and follow the links and read those articles, etc. It can be
> great fun and rather informative. :)

And how do you *think* I know that chocolate is poisonus to dogs? ;-)

[Hint: It *wasn't* what I went to look up...]

I think there's a - wait, let me find it - ah yes, there is:

http://www.xkcd.com/214/

I loose count of how many times I've done this. LOL! As a result, I now 
know all sorts of rather useless factiods. Indeed, I watched The 
Eggheads last night, and I got more questions right than they did. [A 
pure fluke, as it happens. Usually they ask questions about Greek 
philosophers or something and I haven't got a clue. But tonight it was 
Latin...]

Oddly, I always seem to end up reading about leathal poisons or powerful 
explosives or how guns work or deadly bacteria or... damn it, if anybody 
is watching my surfing habits, they must think I'm a terrorist by now! :-S

Still, I don't follow every link I see, only the "interesting" ones. As 
a result, I never end up reading about the corporate development of IBM 
or the history of American Independence, but instead reading about 
fractal image compression or the undead cat that that guy studied. [You 
know the guy. I just can't spell his name.]

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