Wikipedia - My weird obsession

Lately I'll be watching something on TV, more often than not it will be the history channel, and I'll be tempted to go and look up more about it on Wikipedia. I know that the Wiki (as I like to call it) isn't extremely reliable, but on most things, it's usually pretty good. I just love sitting there reading the giant entry on something I found so fascinating. The last thing I looked up was the Egyptian Pharoh Nefretiti. My mom was watching a show on the History Channel about a mummy they found that may possibly have been her. As I scrolled through the little information on her, I ended up on a list of all the Pharohs they had record of. The one that caught my eye was Cleopatra VII, who is the one we know mainly as just Cleopatra. I've always loved the movies depicting her (especially Cleopatra and Antony) but never knew tons about her. I ended up reading for hours aboutn her and her really strange but interesting life.

It's not just historical figures either. HBO has been playing the Star Wars sagas nonstop lately. Despite knowing every word to most of the original Trilogy, I love these movies. I love watching them. One day I started looking up the characters on Wiki. They not only had info from the movies, but from the millions of books written after. Such as how apparently Luke Skywalker had a son named Ben. And Leia and Han got married and had children. It was all strangly bizarre but really interesting.

I think Wikipedia is a great tool. The other day I wikipedia'ed my first name (rather unusal and not often heard) to find that Queen Elizabeth I was often refered to as my name as an abreviation of another nickname. It was pretty awesome. It's not always 100% reliable and so I take it with a grain of salt. But I love looking up stuff on the crazy website. I'm sure by the end of the night I'll have looked something up.