Have some time on your hands? Looking for one more thing to fill a free moment or two? Or maybe a momentary distraction during your work day? Have I got the thing for you!
WolrdCat Identities Network. You can play six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Or six degrees of Virginia Woolf and in about end up at the actor Kevin Kline. Or Walt Whitman and end up with Mozart.
Go play! Go play! And if you come up with some interesting connections, please share!
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Jane Austen to Paul Klee! Interesting.
Whisperinggums, oh, now that is an intriguing connection!
Anne Rice to Aaron Soarkin (or however you spell that).
That is so perfect for my crazy day today. I’ll be messing around with it inbetween bursts of (hopefully) productivity…
How are people managing to get these cool connections? I’ve been trying but not really getting anywhere. I expect it’s my technological incompetence at work as usual!
It’s fun! (but not so easy to figure out how to use it… I’m clueless for these matters) thanks for pointing out to that page!
Bookgazing, oh, that’s a good one!
Daphne, hope you had fun!
Litlove, not so hard, type in a name and then click on one of the connections that comes up and then click on one of the connections to the connections. The odder they are, the more interesting the result.
Smithereens, glad you enjoyed it!
how about jesus christ to the PSAT??
How does someone go from being outraged at England usury and capitalism causing WWI to embracing Mussolini’s fascism? Yes, I stumbled from our first President to Ezra Pound: “a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children.”
Erica, oh I think you have found the most unusual connection so far!
Bikkuri, oh the mysterious connections between people!