GoogleFlaneur

From a Twitter thread I wrote

I just invented a stupid new game

Go to Google & randomly hit a bunch of keys on your keyboard. Doesn't have to be real words. Just letter salad

Search it

If you get nothing, break it up with spaces. Sooner or later you'll get something

Now read/learn about the top 3 results.

If it's random letters and numbers, they'll often match a part-number of some piece of electronics or an engine or something. Find out what that is and how it's used.

"Meaningless" words might get autocorrected to meaningful. Or be something in another language.

Again, find out what.

Read the Wikipedia pages about it.

The beauty of this is it knocks you out of all your standard patterns and obsessions and gives you a glimpse of the world that the algorithms rarely show you.

I bet if you do this regularly you'll have a better overview of the world, be more informed and more creative than with your normal online practice.

So via this, I just found out about https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html

The planetary data set standards used by NASA. https://pds.nasa.gov

Markov analysis of biophysics : https://qub.mandelics.com