There was a fun first meeting for our new Boston SL meetup tonight in Cambridge, hosted by Tuan and Chris of Useful Technology. Stay tuned for more activities! You can check it out at meetup.com
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My article on uuworld.org
I wrote the article now featured on the uuworld.org home page: Religious reality in a virtual world.
A dragon, an angel, and a bug-eyed monster sit down in a Unitarian Universalist church. No, it’s not the beginning of a bad joke. If you’re in the popular online world of Second Life, it may just be a few friends having a conversation.
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Al Jazeera on the Senate deadlock
I always find it interesting to see how Al Jazeera covers U.S. news, especially when it concerns the Middle East. And sometimes the most interesting thing is to see just how neutral the story is. Al Jazeera:
The US senate has refused to consider a resolution denouncing George Bush’s Iraq troop increase that the House of Representatives passed the day before.
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Loreena McKennitt
I just bought a ticket to see Loreena McKennitt perform in Boston on April 21! I found out she’s touring quite by accident, and tickets only went on sale Thursday, so I was actually able to get an aisle seat in the fourth row of the balcony. Whoo hoo!
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My kind of bank
Timbuktu Chronicles, a “view of Africa and Africans with a focus on entrepreneurship, innovation, technology, practical remedies and other self sustaining activities” by Emeka Okafor, takes note of Community Seed Banks with links to fuller reports..
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Mars promotes homophobia
I won’t link to their website, because that’s actually good for them, but the Snickers website has 1) a homophobic ad they aired during the Super Bowl; 2) three more even worse ads that they’re inviting people to vote on for airing during the Daytona 500; and 3) bigoted reactions from pro football players.
So, no more: M&M’S, MARS, MILKY WAY, SNICKERS and TWIX; Skittles, Combos, Starburst, or Dove; Whiskas, Pedigree, or Sheba; Uncle Ben’s.
UPDATE: Andy Towle (Towleroad) reports that Mars has pulled the website, the ads, and the footballers’ reactions.
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Goodbye Googlebombing!
Nice take-down of Google in the Guardians’ story, “Read me first”
‘Miserable failure’ Bush rehabilitated as Google steps in to defuse the Googlebombs
The company is allowing concerns about its public image to influence the search results it dishes up. . .
The perception of Google as an honest broker, disinterested in the information it presents, remains a popular one. We like to believe that “we the people” control what comes out of Google’s mouth.
But while that may have been true once, and while it was in fact one of the company’s founding ideals, it’s not so true any more.
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Wow
Wow. Just wow. Andrew Sullivan has a YouTube video of a humvee driving in Bagdad. Wow: Andrew Sullivan | The Daily Dish: A Glimpse of Baghdad