GodTube?

Seems the Vatican is getting a channel on the popular video sharing site YouTube. Details are sparse on what content the Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church has in mind, but a quick look around YouTube should give him a few ideas...

* A video blog... wouldn't you like seeing the Pope hunched over in a chair, trying to stay in the frame of the web camera on his laptop lamenting about everything from the last movie he saw (probably Slumdog Millionaire, seems like everyone's seen that one but me) or just something that happened at work that day... I know I would be glued to the screen.

* Mashups... mix some pope videos with popular, but lyrically empty pop songs and watch the view counts soar... and I can't imagine ANY record company sending a cease and desist order against the Holy See. But be prepared for the unauthorized mashup of the Pope and Katy Perry's "I Kissed a Girl".

* Clips and Trailers... "This Week in Church..." a quick cut video (but without those goofy 80s style tilted angles) of some snippets of a reading, part of the sermon, and the happy faces of all those who just received communion...

Just a few ideas, and I'm sure the Vatican has even farther reaching plans, like a church in Second Life, or a Twitter account...

My 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon

Ok, you should all know the premise by now, if not, check the 6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon page on Wikipedia.

I hadn't thought about my own degree number, till a friend of my on Facebook talked about hers. So that got me thinking and I was surprised to find it was easier to figure out than I thought. See a few years ago I was taking theater classes at the local community college. While there...

• I performed in The Crucible with John Esteban
• Who appeared (as an extra) in The New World with Colin Farrell
• Who appeared in Minority Report with Tom Cruise
• Who appeared in A Few Good Men with... Kevin Bacon

so that put me at 4 degrees from Keven Bacon... who knew.

Speaking of Bacon (Kevin, not the pork food), the Oracle of Bacon is a great site for finding the shortest distance between two actors (it defaults to Kevin Bacon as one of the two, but you can substitute any two names). What's really impressive is putting in silent film stars like Charlie Chaplin or Fatty Arbuckle and finding out they are both within 3 degrees of Kevin.