Quote:
Originally Posted by Ourcrazymodern?
Knowing such nonsense
is what we've come doomed to do,
more elaborately.
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At three in the morning I looked at my clock and thought, 'Good god! What on earth have I been doing for four hours?!' I looked at my screen. 'Plot summaries of Power Rangers episodes.' Damn."
—Anonymous Wikipedia addict
We can't repel information of that magnitude!
on a personal note:
I'm a good example of this; unless I have he mentality of get in, get out with the knowledge I initially came in for, it is very easy for one to suscept into "link-jumping" or "topic-turning" for hours on end when you just follow a stray blue underline on Wikipedia. In fact, I've had a "crush" with the tvtropes.org website on-and-off for nearly a year now, but only now, have I realized how big and diverse it has gotten in the mean. It's huge, and nearly everything is interconnected to anything. And it's also quite hilarious and nerdy. What comedy isn't though?
Dude, (and I don't say that often) and they even have an archetype and/or name for this sort of occurrence: the
Archive Binge.