A Lesson in Connections

The links within the wikipedia entries and under the Related Links section in the entries are THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL I SAY. You just can't stop clicking....

So.. on with the lesson.... and proof of this sinister occurence..

I read daily RSS feeds via RSSBandit.

I subscribe to Snopes' RSS Feed which is a rumour busting site. It's sorta like Mythbusters but just not as entertaining in the same way.

One of today's topics' was about the MYTH that watering your plants with microwaved water will kill it.

This reminded me about the Triple Point of water and Superheating and Supercooling from an episode of Mythbusters which showed you can heat pure water higher than 100 degress Celsius without boiling it.

That led to Supersaturation and Phases of Matter.

Supersaturation led to a dead end of sorts.

Phases of Matter however contained a link to Mentos Eruption. Within that page, there was a link to Mythbusters again but there was also another link to Rock Candy.

Within the Rock Candy page, there were links to United Kingdom and Rock Confectionary which is useful if you want to know the difference between, Britain, England and the United Kingdom. Fortunately, I had already read up on this and so did not need to waste more of my life reading addictively pointless stuff. And the Rock Confectionary page was a dud.

Still within the Rock Candy page, I managed to find a small inconspicuous link to Candy Cane.

Candy Cane led me to it's roots, Christmas.

Talking about the origins of Christmas and how it was nearly lost as a tradition, I found a small link to Dissenter. But this was another dead end. :D

Further down the Christmas page, there's more info on Christmas Celebrations. There's a small link to something called the Christmas Truce, which was basically a time when an informal, unofficial and unsanctioned truce occured during World War 1 because the troops at the front lines wanted to celebrate Christmas. I was of course already aware of this because I had read about it before but I was still eager to learn more.

I read on with great interest and was moved by the brotherly love shown by these soldiers. And then I got pissed with the commanders in charge. I mean... if the people of two countries don't want to fight each other, what fucked up reasons do the commanders have for wanting war in the first place?

Other links within the page also indicate that at times there were other informal "truces" where both sides purposely misfired their guns at set times for set durations at set distances to prevent any casualties. There was even a story about how an English soldier accidentally shot a round over to the enemy, - yes. that's right. there was no fighting -, and then yelled out "Sorry!".

The fuck is up with that?

Anyway, by this time, 3 hours had passed and I was left wondering how the fuck I even got to this point. Luckily, I managed to trace my steps with the help of the browser's "History" and managed to post it here just for you.

So my point is proven. Wikipedia is THE DEVIL!