Tag: Culture
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We ALL Like Paper-clip Thieving, Staple Snatching Sheep Have Gone Astray
According to some new research, over two thirds of the population have ‘broken the law at some point’. The law-abiding majority appears to be a myth… Or is ‘borrowing’ from work, whether phone calls or stationary, a victimless crime, and part of the payback we expect from the Faustian pact we make with companies in…
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Reflections on Going to Church in Second Life | It’s All About Sex
OK, so I went to church. In Second Life. A little late – so that’s pretty much par for regular church – but I wandered around and tried to take the thing in. I didn’t last long. I got forcibly evicted – teleported I guess – for having no clothes on. I tried to give…
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Come to Church With Me Tomorrow!
In Second Life, that is. LifeChurch.tv A few of us are going to check it out. I’ll be KFrank Repine, and Zack’ll be there as Depak Soderstrom. I guess we’ll start true to type and hang around the back first 😉 Service kicks off 5:30pm UK, and that’s 9:30am PDT. See you then. I don’t…
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Gravity and Grace (1) ¦ Wild Blue Yonder ¦ Living Between Two Oceans
Last night I went with my good friend and doctor of film Gareth Higgins to see Werner Herzog’s latest film ‘The Wild Blue Yonder’. It’s a deeply comic, deeply environmental parable about space travel, aliens, shopping malls, complex math and hyperspace. And quite wonderful for it. Speaking to Gareth afterwards, I mentioned that the path of the…
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Second Life | Second Incarnation?
I was curious. I had to have a look. So ‘KFrank Repine’ entered the Second Life universe and judderingly wandered around trying to make some sense of it all. I couldn’t. So I walked into the sea and logged off. Have I drowned now? Part of me simply wants to mock this whole world, but…
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Berners-Lee Wrong on Web 2.0?
Will Samson has an interesting quote from Tim Berners-Lee revealing his thoughts on ‘Web 2.0’: “If Web 2.0 for you is blogs and wikis, then that is people to people. But that was what the Web was supposed to be all along.” I’m not a big fan of the phrase ‘Web 2.0’ either. But I…