the problem with wiki

[kaigou]

...is that you start out, in all innocence, looking up truth serum to find out if it's actually real or just memorex hollywood, and suddenly it's three hours later and you've read about the Bunny Man of Fairfax County, gaslighting, the break-ins at the Watergate, Munchausen by Internet, and somehow ended up on biographies of lesser-known but no less chilling serial murderers from the '20s, capped with a pleasant finale of fictional lethal viruses.

Wtf, wiki, you need an off button.

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[starscream]

My recent timesink has been SomethingAwful's forums. It catches a lot of crap for being a $10 to access forum but I've learned a hell of a lot from that place. I've spent my last two work shifts reading about really weird history stuff from around the world -- which then lead me into buying 3 history books so continue researching.

Of course for every awesome history / ghost story thread there's a thread about "What are your terrible habits as a bachelor?" so...