Archive for March 20th, 2008
Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Sammamish Snow 2008
For the last couple of days the Seattle-area weather forecasters have been predicting a big snow storm and until this morning I didn’t believe them. Saturday came and went with no snow. On Sunday we got hit by ahail storm that left 1/2″ of hail on the ground which quickly melted away. But […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insightAmazing.SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight", url: "http://weblogg-ed.com/2008/jill-bolte-taylor-my-stroke-of-insight/" });
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Second Life Video News PodcastThe Grid Review has launched with a new pilot episode of their Second Life video podcast. Episodes are expected weekly and will cover a “second glance” of grid happenings hosted by Johnny Ming of SecondCast. Credits to Trent Hedges and Skyla Volitant for writing and producing such a funny […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
More On That RMB City Virtual Art AcquisitionLast week I mentioned the New York Times story on an art collector who purchased part of the RMB City project from my friend and conceptual artist Cao Fei, known as China Tracy in Second Life. The article wasn’t very…SLHamlet
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
SecondCast #61 - Bucket The Secondcasters are joined by guest host Roslin Petion of Roslin Petion of Tete A Pied and SecondStyle Magazine.Download Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Google releases Contacts Data APIYou might have noticed the unfortunate mechanism of retrieving your Google Mail contacts by site asking your for your Google username and password. Apparently this is on of the nightmare of every person just a little into security, aren’t you not just able to retrieve the Google addressbook but also have […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
A?Publish Then Filter World?Clay Shirky has a new book that’s just been released titled “Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations” with an accompanying blog that both advance to the idea that our ability to connect on the Web potentially changes much of what we know to be true about business, politics, and […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Links for Sunday, February 3, 2008
Wall Street Journal: The World’s Hottest Chili - “The peppers yielded a reading of 1,041,427 SHUs, twice that of the California red savina pepper, the previous record-holder. An SHU is the amount of dilution needed before the chili is undetectable. A drop of bhut jolokia extract needs a million drops […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Resident Opinion Survey - How would you answer?
Filed under: Linden Lab, Op/Ed
I’ve been reading about the resident survey that Linden Lab has been randomly sending to Second Life residents via their client. I was surprised to find it on my screen the other day. It asked the question, "Is your Second Life experience getting better […]
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
Can we call them SLphones?
Filed under: News
This Tech Digest story has it that TokyoZERO, in a partnership with a company calling itself Sun (though not Sun Microsystems, as that’s not their logo), are apparently working on a way to get SL on your cellphone. Or perhaps not you, but the Japanese. Now, we’ve been on […]
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