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Six Degrees of Wikipedia
An anonymous reader notes that someone has applied the game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon to the articles in Wikipedia. Instead of the relation being "in the same film," he used "is linked to by." From the blog post: "We'll call the 'Kevin Bacon number' from one article to another the 'distance' between them. It's then possible to work out the 'closeness' of an article in Wikipedia as its average distance to any other article. I wanted to find the centre of Wikipedia, that is, the article that is closest to all other articles (has minimum [distance])."
It's pretty obvious, and has a Bacon number of 1.0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
John
Now I will win this game on 4chan every time!
I know that Kurt Vonnegut is apparently the only link between Douglas Adams and Adolph Hitler.
Cool stats though.
Not for me thanks, im Jewish.
I'd be more impressed if we could find the center of Slashdot... except that it's probably somewhere near CowboyNeal's taint. So, on second thought... maybe not.
Is that the one Michael Jackson sings about?
three clicks to to hell:
slashdot
slashdot effect
Larry Niven
Hell
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
Best one I've found:
Shortest path from kevin Bacon to Wubi:
Kevin Bacon
Christmas
German language
Unicode
Wubi method
Wubi 86
Wubi
6 clicks needed
...the sun never sets, on the British Empire.
This seems to be the obligatory XKCD.com link.
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
the idea is to find redundant connections between sir francis bacon and kevin bacon: socially, in film, genetically, and via wikipedia links
this sort of alternate connection generation is known as a double bacon whopper with cheese
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Our personal favorite for Wikipedia is "Six degrees of anal sex". You'd be amazed how few steps it takes to go from Rush Limbaugh to butt piracy.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Shortest path from Microsoft to Evil
Microsoft
ASCII
2 (number)
Evil
3 clicks needed
Too bored to make a good pun out of this so please someone else do.
Do it yourself, because no one else will do it yourself. [beta blockade 10-17 Feb]
Small world phenomena in general aren't very interesting, but the specific results are. Your comment is like having an election and saying "big deal, I knew somebody would win!"
[[There]] are [[some]] [[Cmdr Taco|idiots]] who [[bracket]] [[every]] other [[word]].
Les Miserables Volume 1 now up with my reading of
That page links to them..
Bitchslapped. Neat.
Shortest path from disney to fuck
The Walt Disney Company
Motion Picture Association of America film rating system
Fuck
2 clicks needed
I totally approve of your choice of search words.
HI O WISE PRINCE. WHT TOOK U SO DAM LONG?
No, I don't know why I'm advocating this.
i\hbar\dot{\psi}=\hat{H}\psi
I found this one interesting:
Shortest path from george bush to satan
George Bush
George H. W. Bush
Andover, Massachusetts
Satan
3 clicks needed
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Scary:
From Slashdot to Girl, 3 clicks
From Slashdot to Sex, 2 clicks
From Slashdot to Microsoft, 1 click
Interesting, from Slashdot to your basement (4 clicks), you actually go through Apple, Inc.
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If you're old enough to have a lawn, you wouldn't be using this new fangled SQL stuff and you'd be sticking to your ISAM files......
Your lawn is full of grub worms!
Layne