I was testing out The Oracle of Bacon for an pathetically large amount of time, trying to see some notable “degrees of separation”. I tried cheating the whole process by entering the number of links I wanted, but it just said “I’m not giving you the answers that easily. Find them yourself”, which I guess is a fair call. Anna Wintour was 4 Bacon numbers from KB, which I was surprised by, but in hindsight makes sense because she isn’t an actress. My initial technique was to try old films, then obscure films, then short films, then short Australian films, then short Australian films with amateur actors, but even this got me no more than a 3! Here below I tried out my other favourite actor: Edward Norton who only scored a Bacon value of 2. p.s. loved American History X