Andre

There are many neighbors online, be it in virtual worlds like Second Life, social web sites like MySpace, shared interests in user groups or bookmark entries. These places offer great opportunities to get in touch and learn more about others and all is just a click away. Instead of the usual friend lists and random suggestions, why not click the strangers immediately around you?

Say you publish something in a service like Twitter, then go to the page listing all recent posts and follow up on the people immediately behind and ahead of your own post. You never know what and who you could find this way; a surprise at every click.

Many people watch TV while being online. I'm not referring to watching TV online but watching TV while surfing the Internet. This activity can be seen by the numerous crashes of Web Sites featured in shows due to many simultaneous visits of the TV watchers.

Try it, that's realtime interactivity with pre-recorded (not live) shows.

I never thought I could be scared by the night sky. Not having seen stars for almost 2 years apart from a few brightest ones merely shining through thick air and light pollution in Hong Kong and elsewhere, I thought something would fall down on me or I'd run into a wall when I left the house.

Instead of a monotonous dark sky I was greeted by dozens of stars bright enough to be mistaken by low-flying aircrafts. With every blink the number of stars seemed to multiply first ten-, then hundredfold until the sky was nearly as bright as a city night sky; only this time made of a myriad of shining stars in all sizes and grouped shapes. I really had forgotten the sight of such a beautyful night sky and I'm not even living in a really clear environment.

All the best to everyone!

 
What you missed if you weren't in Hong Kong last night.
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I haven't felt as sad for any movie creature as for Grendel from the Beowulf 2007 animated movie adaption. I frequently side with the "bad" guys because they often have valid reasons - from their point of view at least - to do what they do.

Grendel is one of three antagonists (the others are his mother and later step-brother turned dragon) in the Old English heroic epic poem Beowulf written somewhere between the 8th and the 11th century.

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