14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
4:18 p.m.
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 06:16:11AM +0000, Ian King wrote:
On 12/13/11 8:35 AM, "Barry L. Kline"
<blkline at attglobal.net> wrote:
Only if you make the canonical mistake of following only the wikipedia
links. If you do it right and actually go to the cited references you'll
easily find enough to keep you busy for whoever long you want. ;-)
HTH,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On 12/13/2011 09:29 AM, David Riley wrote:
You are not alone. What's really bad is when you do it with research
papers - start backtracking through the references section in what often
seems to be an endless recursion of ideas. Not that I'm saying this is a
*bad* thing, just a very time consuming thing?. I find that Wikipedia et
al. terminate much sooner than scientific literature. -- Ian Related: http://xkcd.com/214/
<me>Wipes coffee from computer screen</me>
I'm starting to worry that the artist must have some malware monitoring
my wikipedia habits.
Barry