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Are virtual worlds like Second Life here to stay? My answer is “yes, but.”
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Always Aroused Girl got asked, essentially, “why in the hell…?” More specifically, “why would a woman need anal sex, when she’s got a vagina, the ideal self-lubrified device that mother nature specially crafted for the purpose?” She responded,
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The all-you-can-eat packages of voice, video and Internet services offered by phone and cable companies may be convenient, but they represent a potentially significant threat to people’s privacy.
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Mark Pace, one of my co-workers, broke all the bones in his left leg in a motorcycle accident over Labor Day weekend.
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Resurrecting the dead is nothing new in music. The latest luminary to be revived is the Pakistani singer Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. August 16 marks the tenth anniversary of his death.
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Restoration and conversion of a water tower into a residence, Soest, Utrecht, Netherlands. 2004. These guys are good.
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In the summer of 2006, Sigur Rós returned home to play a series of free, unannounced concerts for the people of Iceland. This film documents their already legendary tour with intimate reflections from the band and a handful of new acoustic performances.
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It happened 21 years ago. That we have now you can see on the pictures (dead towns). PEOPLE, PLEASE, DON”T MAKE SUCH MISTAKES IN THE FUTURE. In memory of all victims of Chernobyl.
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Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow
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In a powerful new book, an accomplished law professor writes about her struggle to overcome the debilitating psychotic episodes she suffers as a schizophrenic.
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This is a website about spaces that exist at the boundaries of modern control, as concessions to the landscape, as the debris left by economic transition, as evidence of the transient nature of our place upon this earth.
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One night in January 2001, Larry Wachowski, co-director of the blockbuster Matrix movies, walked into a dark club in West Hollywood, where the rules of identity easily blurred, just like in his films.
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Every teenager dreams of working in a giant warehouse full of discarded nuclear test equipment, well used high-pressure vacuum fittings and an endless assortment of puzzling devices which may or may not have any value in the modern era.
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Church of the SubGenius Condoms are now available to the public for the first time! J. R. “Bob” Dobbs once promised to save your sanity - now he will save your sex life, too! Dobbshead Condoms feature the ubiquitous visage of “Bob” Dobbs and Conniedoms fe
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amazing photographs of beehives in bell jars
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This post tells you to how to help someone who is experiencing psychosis, based on first aid guidelines that have just been published in the medical journal Schizophrenia Bulletin
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“Body modification is a personal choice. Primarily, my genitals are the site of erotic pleasure rather than a symbol of my identity or politics. My primary interest in changing my genitals is to enable me to do new and interesting sexual things.”
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Dry Dock: With one of the world’s longest beaches, Chittagong is Bangladesh’s biggest port. Half of the world’s supertankers are disassembled here.
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Nebraska State Senator Ernie Chambers (D - Omaha) filed suit against God Friday, asking a court to order the Almighty and his followers to stop making terrorist threats.
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An old computer these days is no longer a completely useless system.
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The memory isn’t very reliable. Every time we remember something we recreate what happened rather than just replay a film from our mental archives.
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“It was briefly announced in the meeting minutes of our top-level administators’ group that our main library will be gutted and rehabbed. This might start as early as next year.”
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The American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) is pleased to announce Banned Books Week activities for librarians and the general public in virtual worlds Second Life, Teen Second Life and on social networking sites MySpace and
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Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures. (I have had plans to do things like this for years and years.)
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They have no interest in the world wide web – to many of them the Comic Plaza is the only home they have. They are the internet café “refugees”, Japan’s new social headache, and the object of growing concern among politicians and bureaucrats.
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A Lewiston woman who said she was “horrified” by the content of an acclaimed sex education book has checked out copies from two libraries and refuses to give them back.
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Last December, Rebecca Erbelding, a young archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, opened a letter from a former United States Army intelligence officer who said he wanted to donate photographs of Auschwitz he had found more than 60 years
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These days in some parks of St. Petersburg you can meet chandeliers made of used plastic bottles..
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Stop the presses: Today’s college students are using more technology than ever.
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Of course, the author of Neuromancer and the man who coined the word “cyberspace” came to SL last month to promote his latest book, in an avatar representing himself. What is less known is he visited before, as a common Resident whose first life identity
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A special agent within a security division of the Department of Commerce allegedly used a database unlawfully to track a woman’s movements.
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“I just came across an incredible resource for artists or anyone who loves Victorian illustration, humorous advertising and the color lithography of the late 1800’s.”
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We talk about the third dimension a lot, but most humans don’t live in it.
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So why do most people have trouble making exercise a regular habit?
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Usage stats: fascinating and important.
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Online worlds such as Second Life will soon become training grounds for artificial intelligences.
