September 2009
109 posts
Second Life: Why ‘Copybot’ Shouldn’t Matter →
But suffice it to say that you are allowed to trade my Monopoly money from one person to another , but there is no guarantee whatsoever that I will give you any real life legal tender in exchange for…
“Hell, hit up a Curves. Showing up in unexpected, lady-strewn locales might make...”
– 6 Secret Places to Meet Women
“Starting Wednesday, September 30 we’ll be sending out more than 100,000...”
– Official Google Blog: Surf’s up Wednesday
“A spot in South Dakota is 107 miles away from a Mickey D’s, the longest...”
– Farthest Point From a McDonalds in the U.S. Is 107 Miles
Sad.
Utterly sad.
“The new campaign encourages participants to print out Windows 7 advertising...”
– Wow.
Just… ummm… wow.
AppleInsider
“An Apple tablet could be the sweetest college textbook reader you’ve ever...”
– Allen Weiner (via ComputerWorld)
“Panasonic has unveiled a prototype 50-inch television and companion glasses that...”
– Macworld
Watch Your “(Step)-UP! For Content Creators” →
So with all this the way it is, my question to Gwyneth, and you and everyone else… and Gwen Carillon, is this: Why are you punishing Linden Lab by boycotting the upload of images or whatever else…
“According to White House sources, an increasingly cautious President Obama has...”
– [Okay…wait… WTF?!!! - Spend more money than all Presidents of the United Sates combined in less than six-months in office, run the country into the ground financially and now he’s not satisfied yet, so he throws more into a virtual world?
WTF?!!!]
Obama Trying Out Social Policies...
“It proves at least that Second Life is not dead and even very much alive. That...”
– Statistics are not always lies, but they’re not enough to make people fall in love
“Ron Burns, ProtoPrez, lay part of the blame for a lag in industry adoption of...”
– Has Second Life Poisoned the Well for Business?
“A few folks at Linden Lab still think it’s 2003 - or they’re trapped in that...”
– Dear Linden Lab, Kindly Remove Your Thumb from the Pie
“The Manx-based eWallet company has signed up with Austrian firm VirWoX, to allow...”
– isleofman.com
“AT&T has repeatedly stumbled in its ability to provide 3G wireless capacity,...”
– FCC Position May Spell the End of Unlimited Internet
“The average amount of time a woman can keep a secret is 47 hours and 15 minutes.”
– “A survey of 3,000 females between the ages of 18 and 65 also found 40 percent conceding they had no ability to keep any secret, no matter how sensitive.
“About half said that alcohol loosens their lips, and two-thirds feel guilty after spilling the beans.”
via “Women...
“Speaking of monetization, let’s hear it for the recording industry which—for the...”
– The Macalope Weekly
“Content industry lobbyists told the FCC today that they still can’t...”
– Ars Technica
“A developer reports seeing a 50% jump in real world performance after adding...”
– AppleInsider
“Despite the fact that no one has seen it, a new survey says that 21 percent of...”
– One-fifth of buyers interested in Apple’s unseen tablet
Flame Me, Burn Me, Kill Me. Just Don’t Eat Me. →
In the source and my post was this statement: Informant: And it’s completely safe, you can trust me on that, but yes they were all originally derived from the same people in the same place, most…
Fools of Second Life
There are many who whine to Linden Lab that changes to policy, grid, viewer and whatever else are ‘costing them money’ as they are making “real life” money from their efforts (read: pretend business) in Second Life.
I always have called them fools. I have proclaimed again and again that relying on another company for the sole livelihood of your own company, upon which you...
“In a move that gets an A+ for ingenuity but a D for execution, an 11-year-old...”
– Boy Fakes Kidnapping to Hide Bad Grades
“Apple makes its money selling hardware while Microsoft’s revenues are from...”
– AppleInsider
“John Gruber’s collected some stats on Snow Leopard adoption that puts it at...”
– ‘The Macalope’
(original source: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2009/09/22/omni-stats)
“A new survey of intellectual property protections puts the US in 19th place, and...”
– Ars Technica
“Two 20-year-olds were arrested for playing a pornographic movie on display...”
– Asylum.com
Whoa is me… →
To all both of my followers and all three of my readers… apologies for the hiatus.
First Life company makes a move not only from one office to the other, but from one city to another. The good news…
“The serious study of virtual worlds is an emerging field, and like all emerging...”
– Pixels and Policy
“The University of Texas launched a year-long, state-wide initiative to use...”
– Mitch Wagner - InformationWeek
Oh whoa is me
To all both of my followers and all three of my readers… apologies for the hiatus.
First Life company makes a move not only from one office to the other, but from one city to another. The good news is that my morning and evening commutes are considerably less stressful (from an average 30-minutes on a good day down to 11 minutes every day.)
Unfortunately the move itself was and still is a...
“Apple’s iPhone and iPods use so much NAND flash memory that there is a...”
– Apple creates worldwide NAND flash shortage
