six degrees of good
Kevin Bacon and pals have launched something pretty spiffy: Six Degrees. It's social networking, but with a greater purpose - you become your own "celebrity" for the causes that you care about.
Nice to see that Mr. Footloose has a sense of humor, and can parlay a silly game into something good.
Read more about Six Degrees.
(Notably, I remember a start-up web service back in the late 90's/early 2000s called Six Degrees. If you signed up, they were supposed to send you a free CD. I'm still waiting on it. Apparently, they're still online at www.sixdegrees.com but nothing is there . . . another victim of the dot-bomb era?)
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The best people to play Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with are movie theater employees. We used to play on quiet shifts for hours. One of my coworkers successfully used Leonard, Part 6 in a chain. It was a beautiful thing.
But after a while, we realized the game was really just "Five Degrees to Demi Moore, Tom Cruise, or Jack Nicholson" because we kept using A Few Good Men to get back to Kevin Bacon.