I love watching tennis. I don’t know why. It’s just weirdly satisfying. I like to play tennis too, but given the choice between watching world class competitors battle it out on the court and playing my own unimpressive (though enthusiastic) game, I’ll take the spectator role any day. Given my affection for tennis spectatorship, I […]
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There’s an interesting article (“The New Status Symbol for Colleges? An Island in Second Life“) in today’s Chronicle.com about the private islands of colleges. Sez the article: “Second Life, the increasingly popular virtual world, now boasts more than 100 “islands†dedicated to a variety of educational pursuits. And many of those islands — digital plots […]
Linden Lab have open sourced the SL client. From the official announcement: “Freely-downloadable from the Second Life website, the Viewer software enables Residents to control their in-world avatars, interact with each other via Instant Message, create content, buy and sell objects, access multimedia content and to navigate around the virtual environment.” Read more on Reuters. […]
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If you were strolling down the street in my neighborhood and stopped me to ask, “Excuse me. What channels are C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 in this neck of the woods?” I would immediately and with zero hesitation bark out: “24 and 25!” Why do I know this? Why do I carry around these numbers in my […]
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