I’m currently reading Bruce Sterling’s ‘The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier‘. It’s “Literary Freeware” and can be found online in several forms. I’m a sucker for clean simplicity, so I’m loving the early-90s-HTML version archived at MIT.  I’m learning all sorts of things, including a lot more than I previous knew [...]

BBC Click features a fly through Hursley and and interview on the outside world/virtual world integration.

Roo’s introduction presentation - Web 2.0 and virtual worlds

As you probably know, Eightbar runs on WordPress. Akismet is a pretty good spam filter. Viagra, casinos and all manner of unspeakable nastiness and vile unpleasantness has no chance of getting though. On the other hand, how can I expect it to spot and handle comment spam such as this one we received this morning…
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Ian already posted his morphed green-and-spiky / Predator avatars. Here are three morphs I made over the weekend showing myself, Irving and Sam changing between our respective avatars and real life photos. Enjoy.

If you happen to be flying with British Airways this month, look out for their in-flight magazine Business Life. There’s a cover feature and 6 page article on Second Life. Roo is mentioned on the last page, although thanks to a typo they seem to think he’s Metaverse Evangelist at “IMB Labs” (sic).
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IBM had a game way back and I was reminded of if recently.

Kinematics models, and how it would be great to have more of them more of them as shown on rebang.

Morphing second life images to find out who I really am.

I spent the night waiting and then attending the authors book meeting in SL