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Human Interest
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Written by Strange Ranger
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Sunday, 02 September 2007 |
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Even though there are quite a few people who already know who I am in RL, I'm sure that there's many more who have no idea. Along with the other people that make up the SL Reports Board of Directors, in an attempt to be much more transparent, I plan on letting you know more than you ever wanted to about the guy behind Strange Ranger, Tom Simpson. I was born in 1969, in a little town called Chicago. I lived in the Northern suburbs of Chicago until I was 14, when my family and I moved out to Loveland, Colorado. I spent most of my teenage years getting in trouble with my parents. Seven months after graduating from LHS in 1987, I made the worst mistake of my life. I ended up divorcing that mistake, five years later. In 1994, I met the love of my life, and we've been together, ever since. We moved up to Jamestown, ND in 1996 (don't ask why... we still don't know the answer to that).
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 02 September 2007 )
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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007 |
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By Xavier Mohr, Publisher
SLReports.net SECOND LIFE, SL REPORTS, 22 AUGUST 2007 - Arbitrage Wise has declared victory with the help of progressive Wikipedia editors, having won his battle against deletion from the online encyclopedia. Wise was added and subsequently approved for inclusion in Wikipedia before a proposal for deletion was submitted by an editor. In a heated debate on the "Articles for Deletion" pages , emotions and beliefs ran high. Said one editor, "The one thing we have to keep in mind is that virtual worlds is probably the future, and as virtual world grows, so will characters such as Arbitrage Wise. Notability should not only be reserved for tangible figures... and Arbitrage Wise will have a deep impact on Second Life, and possibly the overall economics of virtual world as a whole."
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 22 August 2007 )
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Friday, 29 June 2007 |
Speaking of Second Life, Warren Ellis has been documenting the micropolitics of The Wastelands, the sim environment where he and I own plots. The arrival of a new tract of land (ironically enough named The Great Fissure) has reopened a rift between the RPG purists and the influx of new residents. There's no escaping group dynamics, especially in an anarchic environment like SL.
READ IT ALL HERE:
http://www.futurismic.com/...
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Written by Xavier Mohr
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Wednesday, 27 June 2007 |
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by Campbell Faulds (Newbie on SL)
Have you ever been somewhere you don't know ? I remember getting into LAX from Australia. It was a nightmare to say the least. People pushing past me, my group who were trying to get to wisconsin of all places had no clue where to go. It was a throbbing mass of people we were there a few days out from Thanksgiving. I have never seem so many people in my entire life and try as I might no one could help me when I asked directions, thankfully my grasp of the English language helped me decipher the secret codes that unlocked the keys to where we had to go.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 June 2007 )
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
How modeling societies in silico can help us understand human inequality, revolution, ethnic cleansing, and genocide.
By Mark Williams
Paul Krugman, the distinguished Princeton University economics professor and New York Times columnist, once explained the jejune motives for his choice of career. "In my early teens my secret fantasy was to become a psychohistorian," he wrote, referring to the central gimmick, "psycho history," of Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy. Krugman continued, "Someday there will exist a unified social science of the kind that Asimov imagined, but for the time being economics is as close to psycho history as you can get."
That's risible, given the gulf between Asimov's fantasy of a predictive calculus of human affairs and the actuality of mainstream economics--indeed, of any of the social sciences--as practiced during most of the last century. Recent decades, though, have seen new approaches. One of the most promising was described by Joshua Epstein, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, in Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up, a book he published in 1996 in collaboration with Robert Axtell. "Perhaps one day people will interpret the question, 'Can you explain it?' as asking 'Can you grow it?'" Epstein suggested. "Artificial society modeling allows us to 'grow' social structures in silico demonstrating that certain sets of microspecifications are sufficient to generate the macro phenomena of interest."
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http://www.technologyreview.com...
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Saturday, 23 June 2007 |
In this episode, CNET News.com's Neha Tiwari and CNET Download.com's Jessica Dolcourt explore their options in online avatar creation. Which avatar generator captured Jessica's curly chestnut ringlets? Was the one in virtual world Second Life able to accurately re-create Neha's copper skin tone? Find out here and by also linking to this Download.com feature and News.com photo gallery.
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http://news.com.com...
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 23 June 2007 )
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