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Re:Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy by sophacles on Thursday May 26, 2011 @10:19AM (#2587803)
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

Re:Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy by chad_oliver on Thursday May 26, 2011 @05:32PM (#2589519)
I expect the program is working off an out-of-date database. Hitting wikipedia directly would be rather bad form.
Re:Inspired by XKCD:903, Wikipedia steps to philosophy by m_myers on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:18PM (#2589275)
It took me 30 steps to do it manually, following the correct rules.