So after reading the mouse-over text in today's xkcd...
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Originally Posted by xkcd
Wikipedia trivia: if you take any article, click on the first link in the article text not in parentheses or italics, and then repeat, you will eventually end up at "Philosophy".
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...I find myself testing it out. So far I've tried cheese, Michael Jordan, and doughnut. Turns out that it works pretty well, considering that Michael Jordan ended up taking me to philosophy eventually. The problem with the other two is that if you go to the article for any kind of food, the article for food will eventually direct you to the article for science, at which point you end up stuck in an endless loop between three or four articles.
That said, now I'm going to be stuck here all night trying this out on non-food articles. Thanks, Randall.
Edit: Never mind, the loop was "Science > Knowledge > Fact > Concept > Cognition > Science", but apparently the first link in Fact is not Concept, but Information, which does inevitably lead to philosophy. What the hell.
Edit x2: Never mind again, apparently the Quantity article goes to Science, not Property (philosophy), so it's still a loop, just a bigger loop.
Edit x3: I think an xkcd reader is trolling Wikipedia, editing articles to create these loops. Quantity goes to property again, not science.