Wednesday Morning Catch-up
I don’t know how many of you play second life but I’m sure only about half of those of you who do would actually admit to it. I’ve tried it but as I logged in my system, which runs world of warcraft at full settings perfectly, produced about 10 fps in second life. I quickly wrote the game off as unplayable. Maybe I would have stayed if there were more incentive than flying, goofy cars and goth anime nerds from around the world. I guess like most new frontiers it’s first adopted by fringe subcultures. Now there’s someone so enthralled by the proliferation of this alternate reality that he’s calling for an open source version of second life. Even though it’s content is already majorly created by the users, Mark Shuttleworth believes the second life framework could use that open source special sauce to create bridges between it’s users real and virtual lives. A nice start is this second life version of myspace.
Wired blog has compiled a nice collection of sexy nerds. My vote is for Jade Raymond or Cynthia Breazeal. Warning: Nerd levels are not what they could be but there are some interesting people in there.
Are there any companies that can challenge Blizzard in the MMORPG business? I don’t care because 2.0.1 is sweet and The Burning Crusade is around the corner.
If you are subscribed to Digg’s RSS you’ll notice at least half of the top stories are “LOL look at this funny video”, “top 10 reasons I masturbate to my Nintendo” or “conservatives are planning to blow up the rain forest!”. Digg is slowly turning into a Nintendo fanboy liberal SomethingAwful’s GBS or even worse, Fark/ebaumsworld (who I won’t even link to). I know these are gross generalizations but if someone doesn’t do something about this terrible possible future, it may soon be too late for the online community of digg.