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Start with thirdage.com or seniornet.com At ThirdAge (for those 45-64), click on romance. On Seniornet (for those 65 and older), go to the e-mail Pen Pals area of the discussion boards. Most dating sites, including the biggest, personals.yahoo.com are open to adults of any age. Better still, skip the dating websites and spend your time at special-interest sites that have active chat areas. mplayer.com lets gamers schmooze as they play, while salonmagazine.com caters to a more literary crowd...
...some popular spring break locale when the rotund football player from USC (who earned his way into the entour-age last night by drinking straight from the pitcher) is shaking his gut like a bowl full of Jello shotsasans shirt. Obviously a Kodak moment, right? Well, before you click the shutter, stop. Stop and think about the poor photo developers who will have to see that...
...Internet, launch a search engine and type in the word enquire (British spelling, please). You'll get about 30,000 hits. It turns out you can "enquire" about nearly anything online these days, from used Harley Davidsons for sale in Sydney, Australia ("Enquire about touring bikes. Click here!"), to computer-training-by-e-mail courses in India ("Where excellence is not an act but a habit"). Click once to go to a site in Nairobi and enquire about booking shuttle reservations there. Click again, and zip off to Singapore, to a company that specializes in "pet moving." Enquire about buying...
...what, you say? Everybody knows that with a mouse, a modem and access to the Internet, these days you can point-and-click anywhere on the planet, unencumbered by time or space or long-distance phone tariffs...
Building on ideas that were current in software design at the time, Berners-Lee fashioned a kind of "hypertext" notebook. Words in a document could be "linked" to other files on Berners-Lee's computer; he could follow a link by number (there was no mouse to click back then) and automatically pull up its related document. It worked splendidly in its solipsistic, Only-On-My-Computer...