Posted in Bizarre, People on August 17, 2007 | No Comments »
The good news is that we’re not going to get a fourth painful series of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
The bad news is that creator Anthony Zuiker has decided to build a CSI-branded crime lab in SL.
Viewers can follow Gary Sinise, the lead on CSI: New York, as he chases a killer inworld and help [...]
Posted in Bizarre, Bullshit on August 7, 2007 | No Comments »
Chief executive of the New Zealand Bible Society, (they have CEOs now) Mark Brown, was featured in Stuff.co (NZ) for opening, guess what, a Church.
Brown said Second Life has news channels and universities operating within it, but no church.
I must show him how to use the Search facility. There are plenty of Churches to be [...]
Posted in Bizarre on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
John C. Dvorak from PC Mag.com prophesies a Gloom and Doom bubble burst just like the dot-com bubble of 1999 - 2000.
It’s déjà vu, he says, and adds that each succeeding bubble has been worse than its predecessor. He can’t quite pin down the primary destructive theme of Bubble 2.0 but points at [...]
Posted in Bizarre on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
Lesley Gavin is a Futurologist. Yes Virginia, there are such people who have such jobs.
As new technologies integrate more closely into our real lives she considers the developing social norms that go alongside this.
Gavin sees a future in which virtual worlds will also become integrated with real environments. For example, buildings and public spaces may [...]
Posted in Bizarre on August 6, 2007 | No Comments »
What should we do in SL do when a neighborhood becomes a den of iniquity? The only appropriate response is to dive in and clean it up, according to Jesuit scholar Antonio Spadaro.
In an article in the Catholic journal La Civiltà Cattolica, a publication that serves as a Jesuit mouthpiece and [...]
