wikipedia spiral of the deep
March 24, 2008 6:58 pmBy spiral, xkcd explains what I mean perfectly:
I fell into one of these traps the other day. We’ll started where I ended. The not-so-ubiquitous blobfish.
Say hello to my squishy friend.
Speaking of squishy, a friend of mine mentioned that the blobfish looked a lot like a squashed Ziggy. 
So, I decided to compare. Lo and behold, it seems we’ve found Ziggy’s malformed and sickly-looking brother. No wonder the Ziggy family kept that blobfish brother in the deepest part of the ocean. My friend was so awfully right.
Back to the spiral. It started when I visited ICHC and saw some sea creatures that look suspiciously like the now-extinct trilobite. 
So after a what the hell? moment, I started off on a search to find out what those trilobite-looking things were. After a few google searches (yes, I have the google-fu) later, and I found out the mysterious creatures were actually Bathynomus giganteus
and it lives way the hell down in the deep, scary places of the ocean.
Naturally, I got curious about the other creatures of the deep. I went looking, whereupon I stumbled across the Blue-Ringed Octopus, the Colossal Squid, the King of Herrings, and Pfeffer’s Flamboyant Cuttlefish. I then found a site with pictures of 24 different kinds of those fucked-up sea creatures. Oh, and as a note, it’s got not so nice porn ads on the sides. Ignore those. The creepy sea creatures are less disturbing.
Don’t let the wikipedia spiral happen to you.
3 Responses to “wikipedia spiral of the deep”
Happens to me at least once a week. That is a freaky fish.
Yep … and the depth of the spiral is directly proportional to how mind-numbingly boring whatever you’re supposed to be doing at work is.
Or proportional to how easily distracted a person is, as in my case. My work is pretty cool. My brain, however, tends to be uncooperative in that ‘paying attention’ department.
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