Second Life Skepticism

Second Life Chairman talks about the future of second life, Blogger things it's silly.


http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=second_life_chairman_s_stump_speech_take&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1&ref=rss

It's two'fers at the Exist Tent! Let's Party!

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

from Thoreau w/ love

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
-Henry David Thoreau

Jens Lekmans' Myspace Page

Musician/ Artist Jens Lekman Removed all music from his myspace page and converted it into an internet poem



he utilizes two urls for this which are mirrors of each other
www.myspace.com/jenslekman
and
www.jenslekman.com/myspace.html

Eco Quiz

2.3 Planets for DouglasEinar (see Pat's post)

the people vote on morality issues

this is interesting

Measure your ecological footprint

here


I thought I was pretty good with my ecological footprint, but aparantly we would still require 2.2 earths if everyone lived the way I do now.

chippies post your scores

the forging of the lock

somewhere, in some city, town or hamlet, there is a child being born. somewhere pure spirit is inspired into form. and even now the lock takes shape. mighty is the anvil that forges light, sound, discomfort, pain, roughness, dampness, hunger, smells-all impinge on subconscious memory, forging the lock that bars the door to the infinite.
there is something both sad and beautiful about this-sad because it seems sad to see spirit deny itself-beautiful because self determination is beatiful. for this infant, wherever it is being born at this moment, is free, even as each member of the entire human race is born free-free to determine his destiny-free to discover the source of his being and the immensity of his power.

--- opening paragraph to "Three Magic Words" by U.S. Anderson

very interesting book thus far. can't vouch for the whole book but there is definately good stuff within the first part at least.

check it out if you want

the future of decentered, autonomous cultural networks looks very bright

read the viridian design manifesto.