Category: miscellaneous

Those of you who read the headline and thought I was going to write up something on the latest lighting simulation or HMI gadget, look elsewhere.  No I just ran across the news of the banking crisis in SL, and see this as another sign that SL is becoming more like RL every day. Banking…

Why is that old guys have all the coolest cars and in the case of the ones I know, all of the greatest tech?  Probably everyone has seen the stereotype of some sixty-odd year old man driving the latest all wheel drive, twin turbo Porsche convertible…usually in the high speed lane, but only going 65…

Hmm… although I thought that I was staying fairly independent from Facebook (only depending on their "friends" listing and keeping all other content in other apps that plug-in) this quick sketch shows that really the only way to get notified of all my content adds is to be a "friend" of mine on Facebook. I…

.!. View from my window @ the Dolphin Originally uploaded by aakelley

Big bang as the big reboot… interesting (pass the water pipe). Our universe as virtual reality – Boing Boing Joe Versus the Volcano movies

At least this shows what a well balance zombie eats… The Zombie Food Pyramid

I continue to watch with fascination the overflow of concepts from the world of open source software into the manufacturing and consumer markets.  Latest confirmation that there is real force behind this cross pollination is the analyst group trendwatching.com has named “MIY: Make it Yourself” one of the top global consumer trends in 2008.  Nothing…

I wrote previously about the talk a few guys from JPL gave at our executive conference a few months back about their plans in Second Life.  The idea of “first an avatar, then a robot, then a human” is certainly a captivating way to think about how exploration is going to be done in the…