They’ve been talking about it for years, and now here it is: the Second Life client is now under the GPL. This has big implications for the improvement of the client performance, usability, and distribution. Congrats on taking this step, guys!
I don’t have a recording of this one, so you’ll just have to read it as verse. It’s a story song, really, so in that sense a lot less like the more imagistic poems I have tended to put out there lately.
Shannon
Takes a lot of elbow grease to get the stains from the counter
Residue of hamburgers and quickie lunches
Shannon’s Diner charges a dollar for a hamburger
And chances are Shannon herself makes it
At fifty-four she flips her burgers and hates it
“Braid won’t be at Slamdance because of SCMRPG getting dropped,” is the short form. Read on for the details…
As many of you probably know, there’s this game called Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, an oldschool-style RPG about taking the roles of Klebold and Harris, killing kids in school, then dying, going to hell, and coming to some awareness of what they’ve done. The game is pretty divisive — the creator seems serious in his intent to create an artistic response and commentary about the Columbine shootings, but of course many simply find it to be in poor taste.
John Cage’s 4’33” as a ringtone.
(Yes, it’s a little tongue in cheek. The ringtone does exist, you can download it, but I think the performance art is partly the press release!)
I am so happy to see this animated map of the history of the Middle East, because for many years I’ve dreamed about seeing a map like this for the history of the world. This only covers the major empires and other large developments, not each small country or tribe (hmm, how hard would the four-color problem be with a time axis? Automatic switching of colors?), but it’s still a wonderful and illuminating 90 second history lesson.
