Facebook degrees

I'm not quite sure of the whole facebook/ bebo/ myspace worlds. People keep telling me that Hole in my Pocket and the Small World Experiment should have pages - but no one has yet explained to me what the actual benefits of such things would be. I was having a gander on facebook earlier looking up an old cinema I used to work in and I came across this page.

http://www.new.facebook.com/group.php?gid=8900080125

It appears that writer Steve Jackson decided to have a wee explore of the small world ideas as research for his book The Watcher and the results can be seen here.

http://www.steve-jackson.net/six_degrees/index.html

Lord of the dance

No, the lord of the dance is not Jesus or indeed Michael Flaterly - the king of the dance is 31 year old Matt Harding a "31-year-old deadbeat from Connecticut who used to think that all he ever wanted to do in life was make and play videogames."

Its a very strange film - its just of a slightly strange bloke dancing in different places around the world but for some reason it leaves you with a big smile.

Why do we humans enjoy, eccentric adventures like this. How does something so seemlingly pointless have such a profound effect on so many people around the world that they are sending Matt emails saying the video made them smile and cry.

Who knows but it is a video that shows, it is a small world after all.

Small world news

Still no new news of boxes. Come on guys, get in touch. We miss you. :(

There is however an interesting wee article on the BBC's website about a series of "6 degrees" experiments that have been carried out.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7539329.stm

also an old article

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/5176698.stm