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The world, pre-Google, abounded in serendipitous quests to find one piece of information offline. The world, post-Google, abounds in serendipitous quests to find many pieces of information online, such as starting at a given book on Amazon and moving down the chain of Amazon's "Customers Also Bought", or embarking on a semi-infinite dive through Wikipedia. Any of these can turn into a game given the right mindset. Wh…
I once tried to find out on Wikipedia whether goldfish really have ten second attention spans. I learned that in Nix vs. Heddon the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit.
Also, X-men toys are "toys" not "dolls" because they're non-human. X-men fans got mad, heh. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Biz,_Inc._v._United_States
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No offense but that doesn't sound fun at all. Imagine walking into your friend's place and he says to you, "Oh yeah, no googling. Thanks."
In what sense does that not sound like fun? Who goes to his friend's place and wants to google?
I'd rather go somewhere without them.
The bullshit didn't even have to be believable: "Marilyn Manson was the kid that played Paul from the Wonder Years. Also, he had a rib removed so he could perform autofellatio." Kids everywhere believed that. Hilarious.
I had to show them recent videos of Bobby McFerrin, his webpage, and then prove he had done that song.
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In what sense does that not sound like fun? Who goes to his friend's place and wants to google?
Arbitrary rules & restrictions on behavior aren't fun, even if you don't intend to break them. I'd rather go somewhere without them.
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My rule goes further: it's called the phone stack. I suggest you try, it's pretty awesome. Rule: all phones head down in a stack. That's it, go enjoy people a little
Sounds awful. For me social situations always tend to be boring or exhausting after a while and then my phone is my saviour until I feel like getting back into the action again. Without it I wouldn't even attend.
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Sounds awful. For me social situations always tend to be boring or exhausting after a while and then my phone is my saviour until I feel like getting back into the action again. Without it I wouldn't even attend.
Guess how much fun it is to hang out with people who are perpetually "bored," "exhausted" or on their phones...
If anything google made all types of bullshit more accessible. Just search for articles about: Non-stick pans, chem-trails, hollow-earth theory, etc. etc.
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It baffles me how you can call this convoluted process "learning". It's not. It's rightfully called the art of trivia bullshitting and has nothing to do with learning. It's a purely social process that seems foreign and awkward to a visible majority of the HN crowd. I happen to agree with that crowd, I don't see the fun in it. I don't see the point in it. I wasn't raised to respond positively to this specific situati…
You learn a lot while bullshitting, but probably not about what you're talking about. Like in programming: a lot of "functions" don't return anything, they're ran for side-effects.