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Imagine the six degrees of Kevin Bacon game and the mass knowledge of Wikipedia were to combine and you would get The Wiki Game. The game is simple. They give you a starting article and a finishing article. Your job is to navigate between the two following links within the first one. The game has a tendency to distract you from remembering you are even playing a game. Often I would come across an interesting article and the clock would expire because I had been stuck reading.

Here is an example:

Goal:
Yahoo! > Larry Bird

Solution:
Yahoo! » Jerry Yang (entrepreneur) » Stanford University » National Collegiate Athletic Association » Basketball » Larry Bird

The game is a lot of fun, check it the Wiki Game.

Same as last week, four interesting articles from Wikipedia.

• Placebo Button
• GoldenPalace.com Monkey
• Beatallica
• The Cure for Insomnia

Wikipedia is full of a lot of useful information. None of these articles fall into that category because there are a lot of really strange articles on Wikipedia as well. I knew about some of these, but I didn’t know the full story.

• Florence Y’all Water Tower
• Forest Swastika
• Rio Rico, Texas
• Erdos–Bacon number
• Bloop
• Death from Laughter
• Hitlers’ Cross Restaurant
• Chess Related Deaths

Admittedly this is probably not the worst entry ever, but it is pretty bad. By bad I mean totally unnecessary. This can be found near the bottom of this page.

Update: Entry has since been fixed.