Archive for December 3rd, 2006
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
WIRED OUTTAKES: THE REVOLUTIONARIESIt’s like Delacroix on acid! I told the veterans of the 2003 tax revolt, as they reunited to pose in a photospread for Wired magazine’s guide to Second Life. Because that revolution, after all, was led by a human-sized cat…SLHamlet
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
"Passion Based Learning?Another article that’s got me all fired up today is this CNET review of a John Seeley Brown speech at MIT last Friday. As Clarence points out, Brown affirms much of what we as a community has been saying about the types of changes the Web is bringing about and what it means […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
COMMENTS OF THE WEEKLast week saw a flurry of great conversation in the Comments of several NWN posts, so I wanted to highlight five of my favorites: In Copying a Controversy, Gwyneth Llewelyn decries CopyBot witch hunting, while Luth Brodie decries my coverage…SLHamlet
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
LAYING DOWN ROOTSFrobozz and Glitter Netroots move into the metaverse. Inspired by BarCamp, the ad-hoc open conference system, RootsCamp merges that format with Net-driven political activism with a left-of-center bent. Perfectly timed to launch in the wake of the mid-term elections, the…SLHamlet
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Lawfuel Press Release - You’re all losers
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Well, today we have a rather inflammatory op-ed piece from lawfuel.com posted, apparently, as a press-release.
"Video game meets Internet at the cutting edge in Linden City, the virtual capitol of Second Life"
Linden City? Now that’s a new one on me. The author begins on the […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
MLK.org on the Way DownAgree with the tactics or not, isn’t it interesting that the Martin Luther King DOT org site that we’ve been reverse Google Bombing has already slipped from the number one result in the Google search results for Dr. King to fourth or sixth, depending on what browser I use. (Now why […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Getting started in LSL scripting in Second LifeHello and welcome to “Getting started in LSL scripting”. LSL stands for “Linden Scripting Language” and is used to script the objects you will encounter and make in Second Life.WHO THIS TUTORIAL IS FOR:This tutorial is intended for those who have never programmed before, Second Life or […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Your world, our policiesSome days ago I received this message from the Second Life voting system:Hello,Feature Proposal 2018: “Transparency in rules enforcement” has been marked ‘Can’t do’ by Linden Lab.This has resulted in the return of any votes you had placed on proposal 2018 to your account.Here are the Linden notes: Sorry, this can’t […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Lovin?That GPSSo last week I decided to give my directionally challenged spouse an early holiday gift…a window-mounted Garmin i5 GPS…and we tried it out on our trip to Connecticut this weekend. All I can say is “Oh. My. Goodness.” Now I fully admit to being naive about many things technological. But this little device is […]
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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006
Your world, our policiesSome days ago I received this message from the Second Life voting system:Hello,Feature Proposal 2018: “Transparency in rules enforcement” has been marked ‘Can’t do’ by Linden Lab.This has resulted in the return of any votes you had placed on proposal 2018 to your account.Here are the Linden notes: Sorry, this can’t […]
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