Second contest ends tonight (Monday night)

Last week I announced the second contest, to solve this intimidating puzzle:

Details are at the first link.  So far no one has fully solved it, so send in your partial solutions--they'll probably make it to the top three.

The contest ends tonight (Monday night) at 11:59 pm.  I'll announce the third contest sometime Tuesday.

Contest Number Two: Two Degrees of Separation

Last week I introduced the contest of the week: each week I will propose a contest, and award Shadow-points to the winners; every two months the person with the most Shadow-points (in the period) will geet their name posted on the side of the blog, a $2 reward, and the chance to write any article they want for the blog.  The results of the first week's contest are here.

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I'm going to try to alternate types of contests, so this week's will be a little bit different from last week's.  This week, the contest is a word puzzle of sorts.  The first person to solve it will get first place, second person second place, etc.

Without further ado, here's the puzzle:

Two Degress of Separation*