From the Depths of Wikipedia

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 2:06 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 10:42 am

To get this thread sort of on track:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_benefit
https://www.nav.no/805369191.cms

It's relevant! Both to the tangent and to the thread! It's even relevant to my personal family! It's exciting! I'm using too many exclamation points!

I have a Norwegian cousin. She was born and lives in Norway. I don't see her that often, because I've never been to Norway and she rarely visits the United States to attend family gatherings while I am also in the country. Also, the invite for her to come to Czech Republic while i was here kind of fell apart. Such is life.

But here's the important thing: she is the daughter of a woman that my uncle hooked up with one time. She told him she was using birth control when she wasn't because she knew he'd be going back to the United States and she wanted a baby and didn't want to have to deal with a baby daddy. And because this is Norway we're talking about, she could afford to do that.

Now, my grandmother paid a small fortune in Trans-Atlantic long distance calls once she found out about this. Because while she was willing to accept her son being kicked out of the loop as a father, there was absolutely no way she was going to go unacknowledged as a grandmother. Come hell or high water, she was going to send birthday and Christmas presents to any granddaughter of hers. And so we reached a resolution, where her biological father is treated kind of like an uncle and she's just as much a cousin as any of the other children of that generation.

And that's good. I am very glad that Norway is a civilized enough country where that could be the resolution. Everyone's happy with it, and I don't think anyone's rights were particularly infringed. No one would be better off if the government of Norway had attempted to locate my uncle to extract payments from him to subsidize their lonely mother benefits.

-Username17

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 9:51 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Manhua
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ero_guro
Both seem awfully related in themes.

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Nov 28, 2013 11:27 pm

http://www.sourcememory.net/veleda/?p=684

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:07 pm

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Hard_hat

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Shingo

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/You

ishy · Post by **ishy** » Fri Nov 29, 2013 8:02 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia: ... ia_as_Wiki

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 2:33 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_civil_religion

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 4:20 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santo

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Sun Dec 01, 2013 11:24 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_Wager

erik · Post by **erik** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 5:06 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Steel

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Mon Dec 02, 2013 8:52 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus I felt that the page missed its starting moves and evolutions.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:26 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect

nockermensch · Post by **nockermensch** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:28 pm

erik wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect (found a short wikiwalk from Ganzfeld effect).

DSMatticus · Post by **DSMatticus** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 3:43 pm

nockermensch wrote:
erik wrote:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganzfeld_effect
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetris_effect (found a short wikiwalk from Ganzfeld effect).

Huh. I got really, amazingly addicted to Chivalry: Medieval Warfare and for 3-4 months straight I'd put 4-6 hours a day into the game. Eventually, if I closed my eyes or let my mind wander while I was tired I would get surprisingly vivid gameplay reels.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:08 pm

I've had similar effects with games. Especially I'd dream about a game if I played it for several hours as a habit.

Heh, for a Tetris effect, way back when I was double-jobbing watching EKG monitors at night + cashiering during the day I'd get a jolt whenever I saw someone sign a check with certain patterns of squiggly cursive when it looked kinda like V-Fib.

JonSetanta · Post by **JonSetanta** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:13 am

I think about this a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_probl ... sciousness

Username17 · Post by **Username17** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 5:28 pm

sigma999 wrote:I think about this a lot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_probl ... sciousness

Meh. The brain functions by sorting and associating things. That's really all it does. There's no reason at all to believe that other people experience things the same way you do. Your brain associates 650 nm wavelength light with various things. One of the things it associates it with is the word "red" because other people say that word when they see light in that part of the spectrum. So we all have a common language that describes it, but there's no particular reason to believe that the qualia we experience is the same. Or to quote philosophy Keanu:

And indeed, it has been demonstrated that philosophy keanu is right. Light is real, our experience of color is just random neural associations and are very definitely different for different people.

-Username17

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 6:19 pm

So the reason you like orange so much is because from your perspective it's an actually good color?

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 8:23 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_compound

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 3:49 pm

The captions to the pictures on that page are unintentionally hilarious.

Darth Rabbitt · Post by **Darth Rabbitt** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 4:04 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_su ... in_fiction

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:20 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavicization

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Serbia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Croatia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothicismus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protochronism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicianism

It's an -ism wikiwalk day.

Also, as a bonus:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakub_%28N ... f_Islam%29

Maj · Post by **Maj** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:26 pm

Ess is working on a plastic surgeon's webpage, so I got to learn all about the Brazilian Butt Lift!

[Warning: Pictures of butts] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buttock_augmentation

TarkisFlux · Post by **TarkisFlux** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:51 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Price_Index

Ancient History · Post by **Ancient History** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 10:55 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivid_Superhero