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		22 points by Shadow84 on May 27, 2008 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 7 comments

pg on May 28, 2008 | [–]

Some of these are fascinating.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Pers...

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Nori...

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=botu...

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=chaf...

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=lorg...

bootload on May 28, 2008 | | [–]

like this one: Idea, Profit.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=idea...

ojbyrne on May 28, 2008 | | [–]

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=idea...

(You knew it was gonna be THEIR fault, didn't you, you just wanted to be PC and not say anything ;-))

SwellJoe on May 28, 2008 | | | [–]

Interesting that the path goes through "Islamic psychological thought", while the path to profit goes through Bertrand Russell and evil.

ojbyrne on May 28, 2008 | | [–]

It's kind of fun to look for pairs with the biggest number of links. And challenging. I can't seem to get above 4 clicks.

GWB and random phrases are fun:

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=cleo...

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=amyg...

I found some weirdness with case:

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=lake...

returns an error but

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Lake...

does not nor does

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Lake...

nor

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=Lake...

which is weird. Overall a pretty cool timesink. Perhaps more...

mynameishere on May 28, 2008 | [–]

So! Once again we meet, Otto Jespersen. And this time, linking caturday with onomatopoeia.

http://www.netsoc.tcd.ie/~mu/cgi-bin/shortpath.cgi?from=catu...

michael_dorfman on May 28, 2008 | [–]

I can't speak for the others, but I, for one, was disappointed to see that this was not the Norwegian comedian, as I'd really love to see him linking caturday with onomatopoeia.

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