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>30 days ago by constance302, 24 Users, more info saveList of cognitive biases - Wikipedia, the free encyclop ...
Cognitive bias is distortion in the way humans perceive reality
>30 days ago by mjharwood, 2 Users, more info saveProm Queen
Prom Queen (tags: prom queen, reality show podcast)
>30 days ago by socioblogger, 1 User, more info savejessica's myspace / carol also a dancer from haysville ...
>30 days ago by b00d3vil, 1 User, more info saveSentient world: war games on the grandest scale
"... the US Department of Defense (DOD) may already be creating a copy of you in an alternate reality to see how long you can go without food or water, or how you will respond to televised propag
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveCode is law
"A short, loaded phrase with enough shades of layered meaning to engender pleasure, satisfaction, worry and disgust. The phrase itself means a whole lot of different things, depending on context
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveMultiverse Wins $4 Million in Funding
"Multiverse, the open virtual-world building platform complete with universal browser being developed by some early Netscape employees, has just won $4.175 million in funding..." Blimey.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveThe Surface of the Metaverse
"The appeal of Surface (etc.) for computing tasks, however, will be limited in many commonplace arenas ... the real market for multi-touch is in the world of the Metaverse, especially in the Aug
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveAmazon Web Services Opens Second Life Site
"The Amazon islands aren’t quite done yet, Jeff says, but from what I could glean in my visit, they seem to have succeeded in being “very SL-friendly, not overly corporate,” as Jeff says they wer
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info saveNasdaq boss ponders Second Life stock exchange
Nasdaq CEO [says] he could imagine opening up a stock exchange in Second Life. “We have actually contemplated it ... The first life is hard enough, but we’re fans of it and we pay attention to it and
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveIBM Rolls Its Own Virtual World
"The company is using Garage Games' Torque Game Engine, a low-cost game platform supporting dozens of simultaneous users (about as many as a single Second Life area)."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveStringwalker enables realistic walking in Virtual world ...
"String Walker uses eight strings actuated by motor-pulley mechanisms mounted on a turntable." It's so ridiculously simple and lo-fi it might actually catch on.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save‘World Without Oil’: Alternate Reality Game With a Cons ...
"World Without Oil asks what would happen if we ran out of oil on April 30, 2007. The month-long alternate reality game, aimed at raising awareness of and promoting discussion about oil dependenc
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveAre Virtual Drugs a Gateway to the Real Thing?
"Starting today, you'll be able to use your PC to enter a virtual rave and take virtual ecstasy, smoke a virtual joint, and even munch on some virtual mushrooms." I can';t decide if this guy
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveNew IBM Mainframe Platform For Virtual Worlds
"...IBM is launching a new mainframe platform specifically designed for next-generation virtual worlds and 3D virtual environments." Big Blue looking to get back into the game - literally?
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 2 Users, more info saveQuantum physics says goodbye to reality
"...physicists [...] claim to have performed an experiment that rules out a broad class of hidden-variables theories that focus on realism -- giving the uneasy consequence that reality does not e
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveSecond Life Sketches: From Hell’s Kitchen to Dune
"I ducked back into the subway just as a 4X4 vehicle the size of a small house roared up the hill into the junction and ran over a dozen people." Warren Ellis reports from the metaverse fron
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveWhy Online Games Are Dictatorships
Cory Doctorow wonders if it's possible to create a game that's a democracy, where your in-world property is really yours.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveMeet the metaverse, your new digital home
"The Internet in 2016 will be an all-encompassing digital playground where people will be immersed in an always-on flood of digital information, whether wandering through physical spaces or divin
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveSecond Life Sketches: The Island Of Lost Souls
"Also, it turns out the locals don’t like it when I demand that they eat the brains of their kills to take their strength." Warren Ellis on fine form in the metaverse.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveAmsterdam sold for US$50,000
"The Amsterdam sims, a popular Second Life destination with canals, houseboats, and a sexually explicit red light district, sold on eBay for US$50,000 on Monday..."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info save