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Archive for March, 2008

The Horror Of Good Guys Winning

Caught this bit of terror and horror from the Twitterstream, although I’m sorry I’ve since lost track of specifically from whom. YouTube description below:

New Media is the tipping point where Good finally beats Bad
About This Video: Gary Vaynerchuk sounds off for 120 seconds on The fact that our technology is moving so fast and it […]

Global Justice - SL Style!

Draxtor Despres serves up yet another brilliant report, this time on The International Justice Center.

Video description: The International Justice Center opened recently in Second Life with a panel discussion featuring International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo. What will the SL community do to further the cause of the forgotten and helpless of the world? Draxtor […]

Old Media Becomes New Media

David Rumsey has digitized 17,000 historical maps. You can now walk around them in Second Life, as well as cross-reference and remix them. The 3D build comes courtesy of the geniuses over at Centric, but it’s Rumsey that deserves credit for having a vision to do something truly remarkable. He’s taken a huge collection of […]

3D iTunes

What can I say? I love these guys, ever since I saw this:

Now they’re selling an album full of music from within the virtual world. How can you not love that?

Food Court Musical

The world would be so much better if it was a musical.

Well. Maybe not “better” so much as “weirder”. But hey, I like weird.

Oh Goodie: Shocking Videos

I’m not about to dive into a censorship debate. If you’re interested in that, go find another blog. There’s really only one thing you can count on when it comes to opinions: everybody’s got one, which means that there just isn’t much of a market demand for them. I’ll just save it for now.
So recently […]

Activism Machinima

With all of the sorry and sad nonsense out there about “the terrorists”, who “can use and may already be using” v-worlds, I’ve never seen the slightest evidence. What I have seen quite a bit of, however, is v-worlds being used for activist causes. This cute little machinima recently arrived in my inbox, along with […]

Shakespearean Performance In Second Life Today

[9:41] Ina Centaur: Hi Onder, do you think you can help get the word out on Hamlet? we have just 5 shows left (the miniseason ends this week!), and the production team has put in a lot of work to make it happen! There’s a show coming up later today at 11 am SL […]