Brady Drum Company, located near Perth, Western Australia, makes high-end drums of native Australian hardwoods.
If you want to make a game out of this play Random Article Connections.
1 - Pick a Random Article. Write it down if you’ve got poor memory.
2 - Pick a second Random Article.
3 - Now try to get back to the first article from the second article in the fewest amounts of clicks. You’re only allowed to use links in the article itself - no isdebar links.
4 - If you find the game is completely impossible, you’re allowed to use the “what links here” link as an assist.
Which is an interesting coincidence since I work in the payment card industry.
I got Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham a road in the center of Nottingham, England, that is apparently the most expensive road in England and one of the most expensive roads in Europe, because it is heavily infested with fashion designers. The article complains that not many other articles link to it, and its category is orphan. Frankly, I thought the name of the road was more interesting than the rest. I mean, the name “gate” seems to suggest that it might have once been an actual gate in a city wall, perhaps one where guys who make bridles hang out. Or even guys who make Scold’s bridles.
That sounds like this Roald Dahl book.
I got Mehmed I, a sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the early 15th century. He built a mosque that is said to be the “most beautiful specimen of Saracenie architecture and carving that is in existence.” Hmm.
My article :
"The Anti-Nebraska Party was an American political party formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. Its founders, including Salmon P. Chase, held deep moral opposition to slavery, and were thus appalled by legislation that could lead to more slave-holding states. The Anti-Nebraska Party was created wholly to oppose slavery; it eventually morphed into the Republican Party. "
No other articles link to it. I’d be playing your game forever.
Interesting quote:
Heh. A coworker was recently joking (inspired by recent discussion about the viability of delivering broadband internet service through natural gas pipelines) that a truly innovative startup would figure out how to use that very variety of fungus as a delivery mechanism.
A slightly more useful version of this game (and a version I sometimes play myself) is:
[ul]
[li]Pick a random link in Wikipedia[/li][li]Now edit the page that comes up, to fix the mistakes in spelling, grammar and punctuation. 
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Exactly how I got started as a Wikipedia editor. Now i have like 50 million edits. Wikipedia is the new crack.
Cool! Five steps from Port Arthur-Thunder Bay, a “a federal electoral district represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1925 to 1935,” to Robert Abrams, a four-time New York State Attorney General. Not bad.
**Operation Scorpion ** was a joint U.S-Iraqi air assault offensive targeting insurgents near Kirkuk, Iraq. It was led by Iraqi command and targeted 8 villages in the area. 52 suspected insurgents were detained.
Mine is for something called DEEP , which appears to be some sort of martial arts tournament.
Felix Berezin (1931-1980), Russian mathematician and physicist known for his contributions to the theory of a whole buncha shit I can’t even begin to grasp.
Mine came up with the list of national birds, incl:
Republic of Ireland - as yet undetermined, suggestions include wren and robin
United Kingdom - European Robin, Erithacus rubecula
(my money’s on the wren)
Military of Italy
Military manpower
Military age 18 years of age
Availability males age 15–49: 14,315,634 (2000 est.)
Fit for military service males age 15–49: 12,331,306 (2000 est.)
Reaching military age annually males: 311,160 (2000 est.)
Military expenditures
Dollar figure $23.294 billion (FY99)
Percent of GDP 1.7% (FY99)
Next random page:
The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL).
Now to get back to the first one as per Little Nemo’s* game…
Library of Parliament
to
June 5
to
Roman Empire
to
military campaign
to
military force
to
Military of Italy!
Tobelo. “Tobelo (pop. 10000) is the largest town on the eastern Indonesian island of Halmahera. It is the capital of the regency (Indonesian kabupaten) of North Halmahera, part of the province of North Maluku.”
That’s the whole article. Facinating.
I tried again and got an entry on the lesser water boatman, a kind of bug.
Gahh! I meant to write more before I posted that.
Who knew that anything could live in the guts of termites?
Steve Marchant was a fictional character in the ITV soap opera played by Paul Opacic. Seems he played the part for 3 years, and he’s married to Kim Marchant in real life.
Lower down on the page it mentions the category is past Emmerdale Characters. I feel more complete knowing Steve was on the job!