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What to expect in season 2 of Heroes
TV Squad
Aug 23rd 2007 4:15PM What happened to the girl that had the power to communicate through the internet? The one that hooked up briefly with Matt and fire dude?
Sprint announces Samsung UpStage, 99 cent songs over the air
Engadget
Mar 26th 2007 3:45PM This phone is part of Sprint's Ambassador Program Phase III. I was lucky enough to get invited - I will get the phone for free for 6 months with unlimited access to everything Sprint offers. Should be fun.
One question though - Can you browse the web on the big screen of the phone? If not it's going to be pretty useless to me. :)
Edwards vs. Edward
Second Life Insider
Mar 1st 2007 10:29AM Moo: Are you implying that the guys who put up the John Edward HQ are griefers? Sounds more like performance art to me...
Is the Second Life economy a scam?
Second Life Insider
Feb 22nd 2007 12:51PM Another thing to remember is that some of the people who are making the most money in Second Life do make money inside Second Life at all. I have friends who are SL developers who have companies which create content for Real World businesses. They're all paid in real world money - not Lindens.
My advice to anyone making a positive cash flow in Lindens is to regularly pump your lindens out of SL and into your bank account via paypal. My guess is an awful lot of people already are.
First Land program passes into history
Second Life Insider
Feb 20th 2007 5:44PM Tateru, you should set up a memorial on your First Land plot - just as a reminder of how things used to be. And surround the memorial with giant spinning NOT FOR SALE prims with pictures of the Dog Whisperer.
The Second Life undead - spectre accounts
Second Life Insider
Feb 16th 2007 10:38AM Stuff like this is one reason I love Second Life! It's so absurd and surreal. I like the moniker "undead" for them, though the vamps might not care for it.
Hopefully LL will clear this up soon, but just the fact that it can happen is delightfully frightening.
Or something.
Just askin' or simplement demander?
Second Life Insider
Feb 15th 2007 11:22AM The Magicians built a wonderful interface for LanguageLab that helps people learn Spanish. It's a build recreating a kitchen with a rotund grandmotherly NPC who requests various ingredients for making different entrees and deserts.
She'll ask (in Spanish, and aloud actually) for mustard, or a fork, or the pork to roast. The user then opens various cupboards, drawers, or the refrigerator and clicks on the items.
This same interface could be expanded to help teach any language. And could certainly be extended into just about any other environment one could imagine - the office, school, bedroom, a park, etc.
I think that SecondLife is a fantastic platform to learn languages. Especially once everyone can easily use voice comm.
Scavenger Hunt: Panache & Dazzle/Canimal/Celestial/ETD
Second Life Insider
Feb 14th 2007 3:13PM Where's the love for us men?
Who inspires you?
Second Life Insider
Dec 7th 2006 4:25PM Who inspires me?
Kim Anubis, Aimee Weber and the other people who've taken their love of SL to the next level by being able to make a living off of it.
Felix Wakmann for creating SecondView which has given me all sorts of ideas for creating similar things to bring the web into SL.
Popfuzz Bamboo for showing how to surround yourself with talented, interesting people regardless of how noobified they are.
Counting the toll of global poverty
Second Life Insider
Dec 1st 2006 10:57AM I'd be much more motivated knowing how I can help rather than feeling like I'm being intimidated or guilted into doing something. An awful lot of these children are dying due to the coruption of their evil governments and many aid shipments in the worst of these countries are intercepted and used to keep the wealthy there wealthy.
Poverty won't end because of people in SL donating a few hundred thousand Lindens. Poverty will end when technology and science provides a way for the poorest of the poor to get clean, cheap water, cheap medicine, cheap food, cheap clothing and cheap shelter. The initiative to give the world's poor children a laptop computer is one step in the right direction.
Caring people won't end poverty (though we can all help put a dent in it and help alleviate some suffering). People like the guy giving micro-loans to the poor and companies developing crops that can grow almost anywhere and scientists working on nanotechnology eventually will.
If you want to eliminate poverty tell the US government to drop its suspicion of science and educate our children to become scientists and engineers. Tell fundamentalist countries to treat women as equals. Give young men in the Middle East a reason to live besides killing their neighbors. Tell China to free its people.
Support science. Support technology. Support education. Support freedom.
