Posted on 9 September 2009 by daleinnis
I just did my daily check of the link that the Blue Mars folks sent me on the 5th, to see if the very restrictive Beta agreement was still there, and Lo and Behold, it wasn’t!
Instead it led to a much friendlier registration process, containing a ToS that (while still real real long) didn’t [...]
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Posted on 23 July 2009 by daleinnis
I’ve been meaning to write this entry for a long time, and (assuming I actually manage to finish it up and post this) I was finally pushed over the edge to doing it by an acrimonious debate over in a Second Thoughts comment thread, where one of the parties declared forcefully that (paraphrasing) anyone who [...]
Filed under: Second Life, identity, words | Tagged: avatars, identity, philosophy, rights, secondlife, virtual identity | 15 Comments »
Posted on 18 July 2009 by daleinnis
So… I’ve mentioned that I don’t really listen to podcasts. And then more recently I dove into a Kanomi comment thread in which she was noting the rather obnoxious tone of some other SL podcast, and which sort of reinforced my negative impression of podcasts in general, in that:
(A) I found the podcast (like [...]
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Posted on 15 June 2009 by daleinnis
So the first question in the Big Bad Blogger Challenge is: “How long have you been a blogger? How has it enriched your life?”.
For some reason I shudder at the words “blog” and “blogger”. :) But I’ve been writing a weblog since October 1999 (woot!), or perhaps since August 1999 (depending on how [...]
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Posted on 14 May 2009 by daleinnis
Ladies and Gentlemen, treasured Readers, the days of lawlessness here on the weblog are finally at an end! The Council of Weblog Aldermen is proud to present:
Teh Rules
Lemme know if they are annoying. :) They are mostly for fun, but it occurred to me that I might someday want to enforce [...]
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Posted on 8 March 2009 by daleinnis
Woot memes!
Dale is player 2.
Dale has been banned.
Dale needs a Valium.
Dale looks like an adorable goonda.
Dale says Yes!
Dale thinks democracy could be a populist ace in the hole for the Alliance.
Dale wants a nap.
Dale does wonderful work.
Dale hates social networking.
Dale asks Ten Questions about the US election.
Dale likes life on the dark side.
Dale Eats Wasabi [...]
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