wow, a new site called sixdegrees.com, in which everyone registers and reveals who their friends are. the privacy implications are really incredible. yet supposedly close to 1 million people joined, with 900,000 of them connected!! wow!! boy, it sure would be interesting to write software that analyzed this data. reminds me of another program someone wrote that looked up proper nouns in the ciabase database, I think, and showed the relationships. probably the kind of software that intelligence agencies use all the time. pretty sophisticated. amazing what the information revolution is bringing. in many ways, extraordinary things can be done merely by sloshing information around in creative ways. no one has really predicted some of the coolest stuff that is happening. wheeeeeeee!!! cyberspace is so much fun!!!