Dating from (gasp!) the pre-Web era, the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon trivia-association game stubbornly persists, long after the 1993 film that inspired it has been forgotten.

Rather than continuing to regard it as a “horrifying” phenomenon that he wishes would go away, Bacon has embraced his namesake cultural oddity, in the name of the greater social good. SixDegrees.org is a charitable initiative endorsed by the actor, where you can register your own personal fundraising efforts for your favorite charity. To foster the online community feel, it’s got blog-able/email-able buttons and links to help you spread the word and solicit donations.

Nice to see something worthwhile came out of that one-trick pop-culture pony. I still remember the college boys who dreamed it up making their appearance on the old “Arsenio Hall Show”, circa 1990; they demonstrated the breadth of their Baconnectivity knowledge like they were competing in a spelling bee or something…