7||0|2426|0|yes 0|0|0|||1||Wiki Fishing|Wedge||19:39:05|08/27/2009|[updated:LAST EDITED ON Aug-27-09 AT 07:39 PM (EDT)]We have a phrase in the Studio %28and it certainly might have come from elsewhere%2C I claim no ownership or trademark%29%2C %27Falling down the Wiki Hole.%27 It%27s the universal trap of going to wikipedia to research something only to find yourself two hours later about 270 degrees off course from your original search after following the breadcrumb trail of links through each article. It%27s like waking up from anesthesia after surgury%3B you%27re not sure what happened%2C exactly%2C but you%27ve got 15 browser tabs open to the %2Adamnedest%2A subjects.%0D%0A%0D%0AAnyway%2C I usually supplement this with another browser open to Google Image Search%2C so that I can dump interesting things in and search for related images. Earlier today I was rappelling down the %28for me%29 well travelled %5Bi%5DDune%5B%2Fi%5D wiki hole and ran an image search against one of the spaceships...%0D%0A%0D%0A...and I found %5Blink%3Awww.scottkeatingart.com%2Fwp-content%2Fgallery%2Fexperiments%2FGuildNavigator.jpg%3Fx%7Cthis%5D. That would be the esteemed John Hodgeman meeting a Stage 3 Guild Navigator.%0D%0A%0D%0AWhether or not this meeting actually took place in the %5Bi%5DUF%5B%2Fi%5D universe is as yet undetermined.%0D%0A%0D%0ALong live the internet.%0D%0A%0D%0A%5Btable border%3D%220%22 cellspacing%3D%220%22 cellpadding%3D%220%22%5D%5Btr%5D%5Btd colspan%3D%222%22%5D%5Bhr size%3D%221%22 noshade%5D%5B%2Ftd%5D%5Btr%5D%5Btd%5Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.gweep.net%2F%7Ewedge%2Fufchad_ficon.jpg%5B%2Ftd%5D%5Btd%5DChad Collier%0D%0ASmirking Kilrathi%0D%0A%5Bfont color%3D%230000CC%5DThe Captain of the Gravy Train%5B%2Ffont%5D%5B%2Ftd%5D%5B%2Ftr%5D%5Btr%5D%5Btd colspan%3D%222%22%5D%5Bhr size%3D%221%22 noshade%5D%5B%2Ftd%5D%5Btr%5D%5B%2Ftable%5D 1|1|0|||||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|Zox||20:14:33|08/27/2009|Obviously%2C by the time of this image%2C Jonathan Ive is no longer doing the industrial design for Apple. That iNavigator takes %22organic design%22 %5Bi%5Dwaay%5B%2Fi%5D too far... %3A%29 2|1|0|||||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|mdg1||21:13:04|08/27/2009|I get that with tvtropes.... 3|2|2|||||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|CdrMike||00:22:48|08/28/2009|%3EI get that with tvtropes.... %0D%0A%0D%0AGod%2C yes. I stumbled across it about a month or so ago while doing a Yahoo search and still haven%27t clawed my way back to the very first subject I started on. 4|3|3|||||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|Silversword||11:36:21|08/28/2009|[updated:LAST EDITED ON Aug-28-09 AT 11:36 AM (EDT)]I%27m pretty sure there%27s a trope for just that%2C too. %3Ap 6|4|4|||1||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|BobSchroeck||20:09:21|08/28/2009|%3EI%27m pretty sure there%27s a trope for just that%2C too. %3Ap %0D%0A%0D%0A%5Blink%3Atvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpmwiki.php%2FMain%2FTVTropesWillRuinYourLife%7CTV Tropes Will Ruin Your Life%5D%2C plus %5Blink%3Axkcd.com%2F609%2F%7Cxkcd%27s graphic visualization thereof.%5D%0D%0A%0D%0A-- Bob%0D%0A-------------------%0D%0AFive years ago I was a four-stone apology. Today I am two separate gorillas. 7|5|6|||||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|CdrMike||21:42:13|08/28/2009|%3E%3EI%27m pretty sure there%27s a trope for just that%2C too. %3Ap %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3E%5Blink%3Atvtropes.org%2Fpmwiki%2Fpmwiki.php%2FMain%2FTVTropesWillRuinYourLife%7CTV %0D%0A%3ETropes Will Ruin Your Life%5D%2C plus %5Blink%3Axkcd.com%2F609%2F%7Cxkcd%27s graphic %0D%0A%3Evisualization thereof.%5D %0D%0A%0D%0AI consider it ironic that%2C in reading articles branching off from that one%2C I ended up on the trope page for UF. Methinks the Gods are playing tricks on me. 5|3|3|||1||RE%3A Wiki Fishing|Verbena||12:55:45|08/28/2009|%3E%3EI get that with tvtropes.... %0D%0A%3E%0D%0A%3EGod%2C yes. I stumbled across it about a month or so ago while doing a %0D%0A%3EYahoo search and still haven%27t clawed my way back to the very first %0D%0A%3Esubject I started on. %0D%0A%0D%0AYES. I%27ve done this with Wiki occasionally%2C but tvtropes has sucked away my will to get out of my chair. Seems like the anime with %27All in the Manual%27 syndrome snags me the worst.%0D%0A%0D%0A%0D%0A%22They say one should not speak unkindly of the dead%2C so I say%2C %27nice try%27.%22 --Lezard