Sunday, July 22, 2007

Six Degrees of Wikipedia

I still remember when I first heard about Wikipedia several years ago. I think it was Stephanie who shared it with the warning that it would probably hurt my productivity at work -- an site that could kill hours.

Well, here's the next evolutionary step in killing time online: Six Degrees of Wikipedia. As you might imagine, it finds the shortest route of links between any two wikipedia articles. Apparently some searches will require more than six links, but the best I've found so far took five (Mirthmobile to Minyan).

Bye-bye, productivity!

Update: (9:55pm) Found a path that requires seven links: phylacteries to rheumatoid...

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