Follow the Links

I began at Alabama.gov, a website found for me by U Roulette. I clicked on the education link, and learned that Helen Keller was from Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Within a few clicks, I was at the official website for Faulkner University, a Christian university in Montgomery, Alabama. From there, I began reading about Faulkner’s Master of Liberal Arts Degree which attempts to teach liberal arts by in-depth discussion of “Great Books”. There I hit a dead end.
Next, I began at the Stanley Kubrick Collection Official Authorized site, which I also found through U Roulette. I clicked on the Eyes Wide Shut link and was shown clips from the flim. Although there were no further links, I decided to type Eyes Wide Shut into Wikipedia and see what popped up. From there, I clicked on the link to Sydney Pollack, who played Victor Ziegler in the film. From Sydney Pollack, I went to Michael Clayton, a film that Mr. Pollack produced and acted in. There, I clicked on a link to the Michael Clayton score on allmusic which proceeded to freeze up my computer.
In a final attempt, I began at the Official Site of Pez Candy, which I also found through U Roulette. Though I went all over the site and learned about a lot of different Pez characters (Bratz, Shrek, Sully from Monsters Inc.), I found no links to outside sites. Disappointing.
I also went to a number of dead-end sites not even worth mentioning. The symphonic relationships online were very interesting, but not particularly fruitful. More than anything, I was struck by how difficult websites have made it for people like me to follow random links. Maybe companies are behind the times. Or maybe they purposely do not want me to be going to websites other than theirs’. I think it would benefit all of the companies, however, if they cooperated and added more off-site links to the websites. That would help those of us trying to develop r-directed thinking.