Edison Hour; celebrating humanity and technology

You may be aware of the world-wide trend of Earth Hour, where people turn things “off” to help save the planet from global warming. You may not be aware of the counter-movement though – of the passionate and growing number of people celebrating what has become known as “Edison Hour” (named after the inventor of [...]

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Democracy in Virtual Worlds, Upcoming Seminar

Today I came across a notice of an upcoming discussion (for April 27th 2009 – note there’s some confusion about the date which I have asked them to clarify) that will be held both in the real world and Second Life, about democracy in virtual worlds. You can find all those details here.
It proposes to [...]

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Copyright law re-do; sanity prevails

I’ve mentioned before in my blog, the copyright law that was meant to come into force in my home country, and the relevance it had for international copyright protection efforts. Just as a brief reminder – the law was supposedly going to make it harder for people to breach copyright, but in the process it [...]

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Alt Personality

I’ve found that when people create alts, an interesting thing happens: It seems to intensify their personality. When I’ve met people in their alt form they’re usually acting more intensely – more in your face, or more nice, or more cruel, or more honest, or even more funny. In turn, I also find that my [...]

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Suicide Watch

One of the most intense and recurring experiences in my time in Second Life, has been talking to suicidal people. In particular, trying to talk suicidal people out of killing themselves. I have decided to write this post about suicide and Second Life, for three reasons: The first is I want the people who use [...]

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Like trance bunnies..?

Perhaps you already like bunnies who dance to trance music, perhaps you’ve just never thought about it before. Isn’t it about time you found out..? Torley Linden brings you, “We’re Going To Rock Civilization“.

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Art Blip: Funny, creative, beautiful, angles.

Another special art thing I want to share. It’s a long list of photos but they are very clever, some of them are simply magical. Enjoy
Kudos again go to Stoo for showing me this link

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Too Adult for Adults

I find myself actually proud of the Second Life community for their outrage at Linden Lab’s latest controversial decision, to remove “adult” content currently found on the mainland. I’ve spent a lengthy amount of time reading the responses of residents on the forums – you’ll find links to them at the bottom of that announcement. [...]

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The Merits of Porn

After reading a recent local story about public outrage over a porn billboard, I was reminded of a course I did as part of my Philosophy degree back in my university days. It was called “Philosophy of Feminism” but it might as well have been called “why you should be a lesbian”. I’m only exaggerating [...]

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“Linden Lab Finally Cracks Down on Second Life Porn”

While doing research for a post I’m writing about the merits of porn and Second Life, I came across this story, released a few hours ago, about Linden Labs cracking down on Second Life Porn. Here’s the release from Linden Labs themselves. This should be interesting…
(And I’ll be posting my piece about porn and Second [...]

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