And lo on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:22:53 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> 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"

I demand a step-by-step account of you playing Half-Life2+Eps1 and 2 on  
your blog!

> 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...]

Either that or you were remembering them ;-) (they're running through  
repeats since Dermot left the Beeb). The early ones are fun just for the  
Science round - what animal, plant, part of the body...? Ah yes Science  
take a slab of biology and a slab of zoology fill with botany and very  
lightly sprinkle chemistry, physics, and mathematics on top.

> 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.

At which point we hit recursion. :-)

> 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

Hmm let's see some of my Wikipedia hits - Berlaymont building, Conspiracy  
Theory, Craning, Cyniscism, Eisenstein, Horus, Rise of the Triad. Leading  
of course to others.

> or the undead cat that that guy studied. [You know the guy. I just can't  
> spell his name.]

Oo I know this - it was Giles in Episode 3.2 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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