Strange things are afoot in Second Life

Posted by Paul Raven @ 02-04-2007 in Uncategorized

It looks like Second Life, home of the weird, just got a little bit weirder. The PR agency Centric have just found their island build taken over by a rogue corporation from another timeline that has been trying to develop an alien world into a human colony. No one seems entirely sure what that means, but Winfinity, the temporally displaced company in question, is offering a bounty of L$100k to the person who goes in, scopes the scene and brings back the best report of what’s going on. I’ve been threatening to get acquainted with SL for months now - I think I just found my motivation. Any regular visitors to the metaverse care to share some tips of good places to visit?

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The Improbable Research Lecture Tour 2007

Posted by Paul Raven @ 18-03-2007 in General

I imagine that most of VCTB’s regular readers will have heard of the Ig Nobel Prizes. The Annals of Improbable Research is the magazine that sponsors them, a humerous science journal focussing on ’science that makes you laugh, and then makes you think’. Continue reading “The Improbable Research Lecture Tour 2007″

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