Six Degrees of Wikipedia

Okay, there's this new facebook group that I joined, which is also a game. It's called Six Degrees of Wikipedia, and you can probably already guess how it works. People post challenges and answers. When people post a challenge, they post two words or subjects, and then people have to find the link between them. So they check the wiki pages, and you have to click on links to 'link' them. I think the way it works, for 6 degrees, is that the two items are also part of the 6 degrees. So for example,

Milkyway --> toothpick

can be solved as
Milkyway --> Earth --> Wood --> Toothpicks, and that counts as 4 links. You can't go from Toothpicks to Milkyway, you have to do it in the order chosen by the challenger.

I think sometimes the challenger finds the answer beforehand, sometimes they just pick two things and that's the challenge. Anyway, I solved a few challenges, and now I posted my own challenge, with my own TWO different answers, and nobody has solved it yet:

Command and Conquer --> Jada Pinkett Smith

There are several pages for Command and Conquer (command & conquer is different than command and conquer)... so I'll give you the links.

From this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_conquer

to this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jada_Pinkett_Smith


stumped? well, here's something to get you started... although I don't think it works, haha.

1 - Command and Conquer is a series of games, including the 3rd C&C, C&C Tiberian Wars.
2 - Tiberian Wars features actors and actresses, including Grace Park, from Battlestar Galactica.
3 - The president from Battlestar Galactica is ... umm... that Mcdowell lady.
4 - That McDowell Lady is the first lady in Independence Day.
5 - Independence Day stars Will Smith.
6 - Will Smith is married to Jada Pinkett Smith.
7 - Jada Pinkett Smith.

That's 7 links, so it doesn't work. But anyway, if I found two solutions, you can probably find them, or some other ones. If you want, you can post a few challenges too. It's a fun game, if you have nothing else to do, or if you like clicking random links on wikipedia.

Freebird Structure

I’m addicted to Guitar Hero. I think I really like Freebird, except that it’s hard, and it has what I call a “Freebird Structure”, which applies when a song starts easy and ends hard. Man, I don’t really like freebird structure songs! Usually, the easy parts are boring to play, and it’s the hard parts that are fun to play, so you have to play so much easy to get to the hard. And since it’s hard, there’s a good chance you’ll die, and you’ll have to start all over! Argh!

There are many songs which are low difficulty throughout and have a difficulty guitar solo near the end, but that’s not what I’m talking about. I’m talking about where a main part of a song is drastically more difficult than other main parts.

So… Freebird has difficulty level 1 from 0% to 50%, and then after that it has difficulty levels 6-10.
Hangar 18 switches between difficulty 1-2 and 4-6, and then at the middle it gets to difficulty 8-10.
Jordan starts with difficulty 3, ends with difficulty 3, and from 40%-80% has difficulty 8-10.
Fall from Pangaea starts with difficulty 3, and slowly rises to 4, and then eventually hits you with 8-10.

So, now you know what a Freebird Structure is. I hope there are less songs with Freebird Structures in the future! (Although, it’s awfully nice of Freebird to make sure you have plenty of Starpower before entering the hard part)