rubah
05-17-2007, 04:05 AM
I just finished a couple hours' reading on wikipedia.
I began with the Nikola Tesla article, from its mention on the Thinkin' Lincoln forums (an excellent web comic, by the way). Of course with Tesla, you can't help but have Edison, so I continued to the War of Currents, about how the two were embroiled in a bitter struggle to dominate america's electricity (tesla won, by most accounts; stick your finger into the 110 v socket that alternates at 60 hz for the proof.)
Of course with edison's hate for Alternating Current, you can't help but read about Old Sparkey, or rather, the electric chair. And once you go through all those gruesome details, you find yourself middleclicking links to the articles on lethal injection, gas chambers, and famous people who have been electrocuted, that is, after a brief tangent on Sing Sing prison and Electroshock Therapy.
The gas chambers of course, brings up recollection of the Nazis, so not only do you find yourself looking at Zyklon B, but also the G-something report.
Of course I can only stand reading for so long, and at a certain point in trawling wikipedia, I just don't care for the subject matter as much as I thought I did, so those last few didn't get very much attention.
What interesting wikipedia trails have you trodden recently?
I began with the Nikola Tesla article, from its mention on the Thinkin' Lincoln forums (an excellent web comic, by the way). Of course with Tesla, you can't help but have Edison, so I continued to the War of Currents, about how the two were embroiled in a bitter struggle to dominate america's electricity (tesla won, by most accounts; stick your finger into the 110 v socket that alternates at 60 hz for the proof.)
Of course with edison's hate for Alternating Current, you can't help but read about Old Sparkey, or rather, the electric chair. And once you go through all those gruesome details, you find yourself middleclicking links to the articles on lethal injection, gas chambers, and famous people who have been electrocuted, that is, after a brief tangent on Sing Sing prison and Electroshock Therapy.
The gas chambers of course, brings up recollection of the Nazis, so not only do you find yourself looking at Zyklon B, but also the G-something report.
Of course I can only stand reading for so long, and at a certain point in trawling wikipedia, I just don't care for the subject matter as much as I thought I did, so those last few didn't get very much attention.
What interesting wikipedia trails have you trodden recently?