After 244 Years, Encyclopædia Britannica Stops the Presses

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Wikipedia front page

In 1928 English cricketer Robert Lyttelton claimed that drawn matches, due in part to blocking the wicket with the legs, were the "curse of modern cricket"

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[Kevy Baby]

Holy carp: did you know that Wikipedia has a List of airports in Poland with unpaved runways?

And on only my third click!

[CoasterMatt]

Kevy: I only knew about that because of film location work that I got to help with a couple months ago.

[Alex]

12 Clicks: Sampsa Timoska, Finnish footballer (and it was the third sports related result).

[RStar]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I hit an NFL player at 31 clicks. Click 33 got me a soccer club. Belgian Pro League at 40. Finally hit a Japanese player at 42.

Wow, are they okay? You didn't send any of them to the hospital, did you? Dang, I better be nice next time I see you, you're one tough dude!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Back in 2001 or so I was taking Library Science classes and learning the finer points of old school reference work, using seriously thick tomes to look up simple things like what films Marilyn Monroe was in, then having to switch to different volumes to follow the career of any of her costars, and using entirely different books to look up detail on the films themselves...I was already used to digital card catalog programs and imdb and was rather surprised at how complicated it all was. The second realization is that I was studying a nearly dead science, and that it wouldn't be long before it crumbled away.

It is a shame in many respects, but it's only because of the amazing availability of information, and that's an overwhelmingly positive thing.

[Moonliner]

1. Science Fiction novel.
2. Indian actress
3. Serbian radio top 100 songs
4. One of three counties in the United States
5. Commune in eastern France
6. A town in India
7. A Boyz II Men song
8. A town in Nova Scotia (possibly)
9. A Dutch Golden Age still life painter (I thought that might be a winner)
10. A Japanese actress
11. Protestants in Tanzania
12. A United States passenger rail network (not amtrack!)
13. A 1999 magnitude 7.1 earthquake
14. A Canadian ice hockey player. (Ooh so close!)
15. A Christian religious awakening
16. Singapore's best known drag queen.
17. The number 868 (disambiguation)
18. A 12th century learned clergyman from Liège
19. A French financier and politician
20. All-time General Managers of the Chicago Blackhawks (Grrrr.. More Hockey)
21. Incidents of political violence in Washington, D.C.
22. Species of frog from Cameroon.

*whew* Time for a lunch break, back in a bit....
OK, I had a nice chicken sub at Quiznos and now we continue....

23. An administrative district of Gmina Kościerzyna
24. A town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland
25. A radio station in Ili'ili, American Samoa (Perhaps they broadcast soccer games...)
26. A 1922 silent film
27. A Centre for Music and Performing Arts
28. An American documentary film director (Again, damn. I thought I had it)
29. A festival in Tamilnadu
30. A village in Spain (I suppose some soccer players might live here)
31. Top Rock'n'Roll Hits: 1959
32. A Canadian doctrine of constitutional interpretation (Trending back towards Ice Hockey)
33. Latin Grammy Awards
34. Studio album by Swedish band Club 8.
35. Giovane Alves da Silva Winner!!!!




I'll bet you clicked on at least one of those links. Which one was it?

[Strangler Lewis]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Back in 2001 or so I was taking Library Science classes and learning the finer points of old school reference work, using seriously thick tomes to look up simple things like what films Marilyn Monroe was in, then having to switch to different volumes to follow the career of any of her costars, and using entirely different books to look up detail on the films themselves...I was already used to digital card catalog programs and imdb and was rather surprised at how complicated it all was. The second realization is that I was studying a nearly dead science, and that it wouldn't be long before it crumbled away.

It is a shame in many respects, but it's only because of the amazing availability of information, and that's an overwhelmingly positive thing.

Well, sure, if you're only interested in results, but you can't beat the archeological thrill of immersion in the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature and various microfiches and microfilms.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

Back in 2001 or so I was taking Library Science classes and learning the finer points of old school reference work, using seriously thick tomes to look up simple things like what films Marilyn Monroe was in, then having to switch to different volumes to follow the career of any of her costars, and using entirely different books to look up detail on the films themselves...

That's too bad, when I was in library school ('96-'98) we did learn that stuff, to a degree, but mostly it was all about the wonderful new world of data availability ("compare and contrast this weird new thing called "google" with DIALOG" was a paper I had to write).

As I've said, it was becoming a librarian that made me indifferent to the book. I was just interested in how best to store, structure, and retrieve information.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by Moonliner

I'll bet you clicked on at least one of those links. Which one was it?

Like you had to ask.....