Archive for January 16th, 2008
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The Growth Mindset of CatsSo, a couple of months ago, this cat shows up at our house. Walks out of the woods, sneaks in a door that the painter left open and plants itself on the pillows at the head of our bed. The kids come home, see the cat, and within minutes have a […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Links for Friday, December 21, 2007
History House: The South Sea Bubble - “We here at History House would like to note that while its success rate is low, stupidity is probably the most-often used strategy in humanity’s playbook.“New York Times: Selection Spurred Recent Evolution, Researchers Say - “It was widely assumed that once people developed […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
SecondCast #52 - One Year Anniversary Johnny, Cristiano, Lordfly, Walker, and Torrid talk about SecondCast’s one year anniversary and recap highlights including fruit griefing. The group discusses real-life furry action, Second Life publications in the works or in print, and SL related sites including Second Life on the […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
SecondCast #60 - Virtual Thirst Can avatars get thirsty? They may not thirst for real life beverages, but certainly they seek exciting virtual experiences. C.C. Chapman (SL: Cleon Goff) and Steve Coulson (SL: Gideon Television) of Crayon join the podcast to discuss Coca-Cola’s Virtual Thirst contest.The contest, which […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Blues In SLWell, I missed the event, but Komuso has posted a mega-cool video of the SL Blues n’ Roots Festival.Click To PlayA music machinima of the first SecondLife Blues n’Roots festival [SL Blues n’Roots #1] featuring a lineup of four of the metaverse’s top Blues n’Roots musicians. Created by one of the top machinima […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
New World Newsfeed: Presidential Campaign Guru Joe Trippi Talks Meet-Ups in Second LifeRecent SL-related dispatches from the outside world… Despite some tentative probing by Senator Clinton’s campaign, I thought 2008 was too early to see major party Presidential candidates set up an official presence in Second Life. Now I’m not so sure:…SLHamlet
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
The Growth Mindset of CatsSo, a couple of months ago, this cat shows up at our house. Walks out of the woods, sneaks in a door that the painter left open and plants itself on the pillows at the head of our bed. The kids come home, see the cat, and within minutes have a […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
My vision for Open Social NetworksImagine a time when social networks are not merely data silos anymore for the purpose of showing the right ads to people.Imagine a time when social networks will be all over and every website will in fact be part of the big social network we call the internet.Imagine a time […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Links for Friday, December 14, 2007
Paul Krugman: After the Money’s Gone - “Markets won t start functioning normally until investors are reasonably sure that they know where the bodies I mean, the bad debts are buried. And that probably won t happen until […]
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Is Second Life polarizing?Well, I guess it is, at least in Germany and I wonder if it is the case aswell in other countries and if so, why that is.I have noticed on many occasions that once you talk to somebody about Second Life, people who accidently stand around you start to voice their usually […]
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