Calum's Wee GNOME Blog » podcast http://blogs.gnome.org/calum Usability an' that Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:33:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Six Degrees of Richard Herring http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/ http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/#comments Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:29:28 +0000 calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2008/08/18/six-degrees-of-richard-herring/ The “Nationally Known Comedian” Richard Herring unleashed a thrilling new craze on the world during this week’s Collings and Herrin (sic) podcast… it goes like this1:

The aim of the game is to get between two specific Wikipedia entries using only the highlighted blue links. The player who navigates between the two pages within the fewest clicks, or uses the cleverest path is the winner. For example, to get from the Wikipedia page for American actress Argentina Brunetti to French anti-communist party La Cagoule, one could go via the following clicks:

  1. The Lone Ranger
  2. Chocolate
  3. Nestlé
  4. L’Oréal
  5. Eugène Schueller
  6. La Cagoule

(Argentina played a supporting role in the Lone Ranger in 1955, The Lone Ranger starred in a chocolate advertisment in the mid ninties advertising Rolos, Nestlé are a chocolate manufacturer, Nestlé are shareholders in L’Oréal, L’Oréal was founded by Eugène Schueller and Eugène Schueller provided financial support and held meetings for La Cagoule.)

Have fun.

1Description lifted from this RH forum to save me making up my own…

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