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> Fun with Wikipedia: Click to Jesus - Boing Boing (blog)
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post Mon 28th December 2009, 8:24pm
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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />Fun with [b]Wikipedia: Click to Jesus[/b]
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Working between Christmas and New Year's? Still with relatives for the holidays and looking for a Christmas-themed way to pass the time till your flight ...



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post Mon 28th December 2009, 8:38pm
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/28/fun-w...ikipedia-c.html
1. Go over to Wikipedia.
2. Click "Random Article" just below the Wikipedia unfinished Death Star logo.
3. Choose the link in the article you think will get you closest to the Jesus article.
4. Keep track of the articles. Continue step 3 until you arrive at Jesus.

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post Mon 28th December 2009, 8:45pm
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1. Go over to Wikipedia.
2. Click "Random Article" just below the Wikipedia unfinished Death Star logo.
3. Choose the link in the article you think will get you closest to the Jesus article.
4. Keep track of the articles. Continue step 3 until you arrive at Jesus.


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post Tue 29th December 2009, 2:26am
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1. Go over to Wikipedia.
2. Click "Random Article" just below the Wikipedia unfinished Death Star logo.
3. Choose the link in the article you think will get you closest to the Jesus article.
4. Keep track of the articles. Continue step 3 until you arrive at Jesus.


5 - ???????
6 - PROFIT!!!!!!


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I've been involved with the One Laptop per Child project recently, and playing around with the laptop's Wikipedia app I thought of a variation on this game: play the part of the hypothetical child in Africa, choose a random article that the child would realistically be reading, and click until you reach a ridiculously gratuitous image.
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