I have seen them in other presentations; you're not missing much. Mostly slides of devices made out of lots and lots of spheres. Kind of like how you have to build things in Second Life

I'm kidding of course, they were interesting, but it doesn't take a lot away from the talk not to have them, though I agree it would have been better with.

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Few things piss me off more than one of these pages:

Sorry!

We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages are intended for access only from within the United States.

However, you can join The L Word in Second Life! Sign up and join more than 2,500,000 people enjoying Second Life. It's a 3-D virtual world entirely built and owned by its residents. Customize your avatar, have a dance party with friends, play L Word games, watch clips and full episodes of the show, and more! Just download the software, go through a brief orientation, and start a second life now!

Add one more group to the list of organizations that don't get the Internet - we're all citizens of Earth now, please change your mindset accordingly.

Second Life?

No.

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Maybe we could have an online meet-up, We could run a Gabbly session or all go into Second Life.

I was considering posting this before, but decided against it.

I hate Second Life with a burning passion. It gets wayyyy too much publicity for such shoddy implementation of a decent idea.

A bunch of griefers in Second Life staged a members-only metaverse assault on "virtual real estate tycoon" Anshe Chung yesterday, during a staged SL event with CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman. A torrent of pixelated male genitals rained upon the victim, whose offline name is Ailin Graef.

Steve Hutcheon of the Sydney Morning Herald filed a comprehensive report of the incident here and tells BoingBoing, "If you can't visualize it, see this YouTube clip: Link." Snip from Steve's report:

"She is very popular, and some people don't like her," said CNET reporter Daniel Terdiman, whose Second Life avatar (online persona), GreeterDan Godel, was interviewing Anshe at the time of the attack.

"She's made a lot of money, and is one of the most prominent of all Second Life residents. So to some people, some griefers, that makes her a target."

Griefers are so-called because they create grief. Their antics are designed to interrupt proceedings in virtual worlds and games usually for no other reason than because they can.

Attacks like the one launched against Anshe are triggered by a program code that generates self-replicating objects.

Much like email spam, these "griefspawn" attacks can chew up system resources and slowing down performance. They can sometimes even trigger network crashes.

Yeah, this vid was like an anti-ad for Second Life... i.e., "this is why I never set up an account there."

Truthiness becomes machinima! When Martin Luther King had a dream, it was of a world living in brotherhood and racial harmony. Steven Colbert also has a dream, but it's vaguely kinky and somewhat less reputable. And after 48 hours of work, the SL machinima team of Silver and Goldie Goodman had made that deranged dream come true. At least in Second Life.
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2006/10/your_tube_your_.html

Wooo! a new ad for Second Life! cool! Oh, what do you mean I need billions of Liden dollars to buy an island? *sigh* There goes my dream of owning virtual estate.
For anybody who's interested, http://www.theworld.ae/