Cool dude Nobody Fugazi offered up his house in Second Life to hang out and chat during the 2006 World Cup match today. Not as good as watching in a crowded bar of football fans, but better than watching alone. Unfortunately no one got the rights to re-broadcast the World Cup in-world, like the simultaneous…
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My birthday jam (video)
Here is a brief video of my birthday jam at a swing dance on July 6. Birthday jams are a tradition of various social dance communities, including salsa, West Coast Swing and lindy hop. It’s a very sweet way of celebrating someone’s birthday where a bunch of people line up to dance with the birthday…
Linden Lab announces first virtual DMV
With the introduction last month of the depressingly dystopian Suffugium sim, residents have been asking what other unpleasant experiences can be rezzed into Second Life. Linden Lab CEO Philip Linden and US Department of Transportation secretary Norman Mineta issued a joint press release today announcing the launch of the first Second Life branch of the…
Broadcast radio in the age of the iPod
My friend Swifty pointed me to a sad story about the change in format of WBEZ, the last jazz radio station in Chicago, from music to news / talk. This is particularly poignent as Chicago is one of the great centers of jazz in America. Some loyal listeners have started an online petition to get…
“Do not colonize Philippines”?
Can anyone on the series of tubes of the internet explain to me what this sign means? If you are colonizing the Philippines, I’d like a piece of the action. Thanks. (Spotted on the R train a couple of weeks ago.)
“And the rockets red glare…”: Fireworks as America
I just got home from seeing the Macy’s fireworks display for the 4th of July. My roommate and I found the perfect vantage point near the end of the South Street Seaport. It was an awesome spectacle witnessed by thousands of New Yorkers crowded around the East River. Few things in this world make me…
Why I blog: thoughts on my birthday
Today I turned 37 years old. It’s a number that has almost no significance to me whatsoever. As chance would have it, my girl Cindy is away in Italy, my family is in Cali, and most of my friends are on holiday away from the city. Not that I mind: for me birthdays are a…
Crazy cat house update
As previously reported, I’ve got a few more furry housemates while my girlfriend is travelling this summer. Her cats Geisha and Vespa have been getting along famously with my own cat Mole Negro, as you can see. Mole even gave Vespa a kiss, which I thought was a bit forward of him.
Jonathan Coulton & the Ill Clan want to eat your brains
Last night was some geek goodness at the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theater. The machinima-powered comedy team Ill Clan teamed up with the folk music star of the blogosphere Jonathan Coulton to perform live last night at UCB’s midtown theater space. Seeing Ill Clan perform their "Trash Talk" show live was pretty cool. The virtual characters…
Black Eyed Peas vs. evil corporate hip-hop dwarves
Episode two of the series "Instant Def" has just been posted. As I have blogged about previously, the hip-hop group the Black Eyed Peas have teamed up with the candy bar Snickers for a web-based action series in which they star as super-heroes who fight the corporate takeover of hip hop music. This episode opens…