Friday, December 17, 2004
PRODUCTIVITY IS OVERRATED
It's almost two on the west coast, and there might be people in the great northwest that are just wasting away at work, waiting for the time to pass. And it's for them that I pass along the greatest link since I found out what Zefrank was (Everysecond is a simple yet addictive game, and the new Christmas Carol Maker is...fun).
I got the link through those pages of links that Bill Simmons' interns put up.
The link? From the same folks that designed the Oracle of Baseball over at Baseball-Reference.com, it's the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia. Yes, it's the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game in the form of a computer algorithm. You can click off to the Star Links option and you'll be able to see how many links there are to anyone or anything in the Internet Movie Database and more.
...But the real challenge to the whole thing is the endless pursuit to stump the computer algorithm with some actor or actress that we have actually heard of that has not been linked to Kevin Bacon. Last night, I had Jim Thomsen and Jeremy on the IM, and the obscure actors and actresses coming out of this were just amazing. Seriously, it was getting down to movie stars from the '20s and '30s, Chilean silent film actresses, etc. Jeremy couldn't stump the computer with the female coach from the second Mighty Ducks movie.
The challenge basically is to get a Bacon Number of more than 2. You'd be amazed at how hard this is.
I introduced this link to Jim and Jeremy last night, and I think it effectively killed an hour of their lives. Jim promised himself he would immediately forget what that site was and how to get to it. So if you don't want to see the Oracle of Bacon ever again, just clear out the internet cache, blow out the history, delete the cookies, everything, and then try to remember not to venture low enough in our Miscellaneous Links on the sidebar.
It's the Bacon Number of More Than Two Challenge!!
Good luck!
I got the link through those pages of links that Bill Simmons' interns put up.
The link? From the same folks that designed the Oracle of Baseball over at Baseball-Reference.com, it's the Oracle of Bacon at Virginia. Yes, it's the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game in the form of a computer algorithm. You can click off to the Star Links option and you'll be able to see how many links there are to anyone or anything in the Internet Movie Database and more.
...But the real challenge to the whole thing is the endless pursuit to stump the computer algorithm with some actor or actress that we have actually heard of that has not been linked to Kevin Bacon. Last night, I had Jim Thomsen and Jeremy on the IM, and the obscure actors and actresses coming out of this were just amazing. Seriously, it was getting down to movie stars from the '20s and '30s, Chilean silent film actresses, etc. Jeremy couldn't stump the computer with the female coach from the second Mighty Ducks movie.
The challenge basically is to get a Bacon Number of more than 2. You'd be amazed at how hard this is.
I introduced this link to Jim and Jeremy last night, and I think it effectively killed an hour of their lives. Jim promised himself he would immediately forget what that site was and how to get to it. So if you don't want to see the Oracle of Bacon ever again, just clear out the internet cache, blow out the history, delete the cookies, everything, and then try to remember not to venture low enough in our Miscellaneous Links on the sidebar.
It's the Bacon Number of More Than Two Challenge!!
Good luck!
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