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Here’s the slideshow from today’s course in Second Life described here. Click here to get the full experience.

Today in my media studies course “Serious Gaming” we’re meeting in Second Life for our unit on ‘Identity and Embodiment.’ It will take place on Vassar Island at 1:30pm EST. I’ll be screencasting the whole thing, but come check it out.
Please leave a comment if you tuned in…
Here’s some screenshots from the area. Warning: [...]

Here’s some selections from a must read op-ed at the NYtimes regarding Hillary’s dimming prospects of winning the Dem. nomination:
Let’s take a look at what she’s going to put her party through for the sake of that 5 percent chance: The Democratic Party is probably going to have to endure another three months of daily [...]

Looks like the NYtimes slide-show department is having trouble coming up with ideas. Here we have “A history of Bullying” featuring photos of a poor kid who’s been beat up since the age of 12.

Also, make sure not to miss “Physical Culture | Gear Test, Running Hats”
Here’s a winner over at Reuters: Slideshow of [...]

Here we have a classic case of Bush saying “Look at me… I still care about security, but I want to direct fear towards a certain geographic area…”
Iran Admits to Nuclear Weapon Ambitions, Bush Claims
U.S. President George W. Bush said yesterday that Iran has openly admitted an intention to develop nuclear weapons, challenging a [...]

this is a game review. 0 of 10 stars. Thumbs down.
Facade is without a doubt the greatest waste of time. Play it if you must, but try not to think how long it took to make the game–that’ll just make you depressed.
This post is second in a series relating to my video game [...]

Before we get into some interesting links to articles based loosely on the topic of Artificial Intelligence, please note that my personal blog can be found at fatanimals.com. It pulls in my flickr photos, twitter updates, and I may be posting more regularly to it with actual words.

Scientists Develop 16-bit Parallel Molecular Nanoprocessor
Anirban Bandyopadhyay [...]

This a demonstration of a device (already in commercialization) that can decipher nerve impulses created by thought and translate them into speech. The video below is the first ‘telepathic’ phone call. I would expect to be shown something like this, but I just found it:

And those same voice signals have been processed into directions for [...]