So, have you heard of the Six Degrees of Separation? How about the Six Degrees of Bacon?
If you haven’t, here’s a very quick run-down. A guy (Stanley Milgram – a psychologist) came up with this theory in the 1960’s that there are ways that you can connect random people to another, through no more than five other connections. Interesting theory. Play with it… pretty fun.
Well, a few students in PA decided to apply this theory to Kevin Bacon. Rules are simple… connect other actors to Kevin Bacon through no more than five other connections – sixth being the person (should you reach that high a number). This is even more fun, for the game becomes movie trivia.
So, now that you have the rundown on the Six Degrees, here’s something that I found… The Oracle of Bacon. The Oracle was created by students at the University of Virginia. It uses the IMDB (Internet Move Database) to search for the Degrees of Bacon. Pretty awesome toy…
I revisited the Oracle of Bacon a few days ago. Diana and I killed a couple of hours playing with it.