Thursday, December 11, 2008

Six degrees of Wikipedia

New game! You say the idea that sent you to Google and the strange place you ended up, and people have to guess how you got there.

For example, I started thinking "It's cold out today" and ended up in the Wikipedia category "Fictional Tubers".

The tricky part is it isn't a matter of simply clicking links. You think of an idea, google something, start reading an interesting page, google an idea that stems from that etc.

Or you could just find the shortest route between two Wikipedia articles (c.f. xkcd)

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