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sophacles on May 26, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosoph...

This shows a that the program linked is broken. The steps taken, are:

1. Animal House 2. ....

Going to the actual Kevin Bacon Wikipedia page, Animal House is clearly italic. The First non-italic, top-level (wrt parens) is Golden Globe

chad_oliver on May 26, 2011 | [–]

I expect the program is working off an out-of-date database. Hitting wikipedia directly would be rather bad form.

m_myers on May 26, 2011 | [–]

It took me 30 steps to do it manually, following the correct rules.

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