It's 4am and I'm chilling with my friends Beckto and Spuds in our hotel room after the late night dance on the first night of the Swing and Soul weekend, listening to Stevie Wonder and other soul jams. So nice. Swing and Soul is a weekend long celebration of soul music and "dancing with soul"…
A tour of the US Holocaust Museum’s Kristalnacht exhibit in Second Life (video)
Drew Stein, CEO of Involve Inc, and David Klevan of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum, gave me a tour of their new collaborative project: "Witnessing History: Kristallnacht, the November 1938 Pogroms" in Second Life. It's an impressive exhibit that shows the power of virtual worlds to combine various forms of media into a powerful, immersive,…
OneClimate.net broadcasting live coverage of UN Climate Change Conference into Second Life
The environmental group OneClimate.net have been broadcasting in Second Life live coverage from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Poznan, Poland. I dropped in on a videochat with Jamie Henn from the activist group 350.org, Daniel Vokins from the UK Youth delegation in Poznan, and then Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of…
Casio adds 80s dayglo colors to retro calcu-watches
Some of you might remember my video review of the nerdtastic Casio 53W calcu-watch. Well now Casio has re-released the DBC32 series of calcu-watches in awesome dayglo colors. The lime green one is calling to me. Only $60 a pop. Collect them all! [From Gizmodo]
I’m going to Disneyworld: Magic Kingdom dedicates day to me! (video)
Apparently I've been a good boy this year. My friends and family chipped in and managed to get Disneyworld to dedicate a whole day to me!
Scary dental implant illustrations!
I have resolved that in 2009 I'm finally sucking it up and getting a tooth replaced that fell out about a year and a half ago. It's going to be expensive — somewhere between $2,000 and $5,000 to get a new dental implant. And it might take up to a year for series of surgical…
“Muxlim” virtual world closed due to griefer attacks
I just tried to register and log-in to the new “Muxlim Pal” virtual world, recently launched in beta. The website explains that Muxlim Pal is “the first Muslim virtual world providing a new kind of family friendly social online environment for your entertainment.” It is built on top of the Muxlim social network which has…
Second Life Human Rights Festival starts tomorrow: celebrate freedom!
Here's the latest news on the enormous human rights festival starting tomorrow in Second Life: The 60th Anniversary of the Declaration of Universal Rights is being celebrated by a huge festival in Second Life. More than 60 concerts mark the 60 years and the talents of 100 artists and musicians are part of the…
Update on Baoguette: Spicy curried corn beef sandwich!
Barry, Rafi, Nick and I had the spicy curried corn beef sandwich from the new Vietnamese bahn mi place Baoguette on Lexington near 25th Street. Consensus verdict is that it's a tad too spicy and perhaps could benefit from more cucumbers or pickled veggies. The tart mango was a nice touch, but largely overpowered by…
New Code helps teachers understand “Fair Use” of media materials in classroom
The Center for Social Media, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and the Media Education Lab have recently come out with a new “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education.“ While intended specifically for teachers in media literacy courses, there is a lot of useful information for educators of…