Encyclopedias

One thing I liked to do as a (very geeky)child was to comb through encyclopedias for the weird and wonderful. My grandfather was an encyclopedia salesman so we always had a copy somewhere. As I grew older we bought a copy of encarta which had a game that introduced strange trivia topics and you could explore them as they came, or choose to ignore those you found boring. And now we have Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is cool because it has entries on almost everything. It has an entry on madeup countries and what their flags look like. It has entries on the most obscure animel, vegitabe or mineral. I know that all that is there, but how do I find it if I don't know to look for it. It's like a library of information with out call numbers to sort and organize it. One upside is that you can go straight to the info if you find something online, or even IRL, by typing it into a search engine. It usually pops up in the top three. I guess both ways are good, as long as I have access to the weird and zany.