A Second Life, A Soul Anew
November 15th, 2006
According to last month’s Second Life census, over 1 million people have immersed themselves into the virtual online world. No cannibal bloodelves, no diseased scorpids, no dancing gnomes going “choo-choo”, and no backstabbing undead shamans as they exit Booty Bay tunnel - Second Lifers get their thrills from enacting mundane everyday activities on their computer screen. According to this article, they’ll soom have the option of watching live TV from the comfort of their virtual living room:
Rivers Run Red is aiming to have more than 100 specialist channels streaming video every hour of the day, with user content likely to feature too.
Yes, its a little bit freaky, but even I can see the possibilities here. With Channel 4 and the er… Sci-Fi channel available from the start, how long until your Second Life neighbour can get the premium boxing matches or live football? It would certainly be strange to have friends gathering online to watch the latest Sopranos and the like, and I would rather not think of the long-term social implications if this did catch on, but the potential here is huge. I’ll have to take a look at this game one of these days…
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November 15th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
Installed it, yawned, uninstalled it. I’m so not a gamer.
November 17th, 2006 at 2:28 am
intriguing stuff i gotta admit, but life is not a video game (yet)
November 19th, 2006 at 1:54 am
Kick his or her head in James. Go on, you know you want to.
November 19th, 2006 at 3:34 am
Thats some spam… funny thing is theres no links in it or anything. Did you seen that TORA.0B ASCII email spam that went out yesterday?
November 19th, 2006 at 4:28 am
Just someone with an agenda. There’s some total freaks out there, I recently got an “appeal” from a conspiracy theorist nutjob that seems to have found my address in Dave Farber’s Interesting People mailing list archives. To be fair, at least he was addressing the right audience.
Is TORA one of those stock/share ones that’s doing the rounds at the moment? I can’t add them to my global procmailrc fast enough!
November 19th, 2006 at 17:09 pm
Ya its this one - very difficult to detect with Spamassassin.