Archives for category: Holy Crap!

This. Is. Painful.

Starting with “I had two friends over. One regular one. And one Indian one.” And it just goes downhill from there.

And this girl Saraa, handles everything with such grace and patience.

Keeps getting interesting.

Metaplace, a service that lets you design your own virtual worlds, now allows you to embed your virtual world, or a friend’s, on your website.

Here’s why it’s interesting:

* You can use it as a gathering space for your community — on forums, for example, or as one user has done, as a way to foster community for her comics shop.

* You can make it the central gathering spot for a Ning community, as 3DSquared has done for the Digital Workforce Intensives in Louisiana.

* You can truly make a virtual workspace between different offices – concept and work in real time.

* If you’re a musician, you can hold your live shows right there on your site, complete with streaming audio and an audience.

People are experimenting with other uses – annotating the real world with virtual ones – say as a geolocation on Google Maps.

I’m thinking there is a lot of potential for some serious, members-only clubs with extremely questionable practices to manifest too.

via Boing Boing

Okay – I really don’t understand how people like this are elected to LEAD THIS COUNTRY. Seriously, people. I see bold, self-certain pronouncements like these from People In Charge that fly in the face of PROVEABLE science – and I’m flummoxed. It’s inexcusable and outrageous that these are a CONGRESSMAN’s opening comments in a Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Environment. The lunatic’s name is Rep John Shimkus and he’s from Illinois.

Free Press? Yep that’s us. And look at what we’ve done with it.

Another episode of WTF brought to you by the Christian Gun Owners website.

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Hulu wins “hero of the day.” They’ve posted all 13 episodes of Carl Sagan’s “Cosmos.” Spectacularity whenever you want it – for free!

`In 1980, the landmark series Cosmos premiered on public television. Since then, it is estimated that more than a billion people around the planet have seen it. Cosmos chronicles the evolution of the planet and efforts to find our place in the universe. Each of the 13 episodes focuses on a specific aspect of the nature of life, consciousness, the universe and time. Topics include the origin of life on Earth (and perhaps elsewhere), the nature of consciousness, and the birth and death of stars. When it first aired, the series catapulted creator and host Carl Sagan to the status of pop culture icon and opened countless minds to the power of science and the possibility of life on other worlds.`