A while back I posted the song “Longitude.” This here is that song as it was originally born: just a flatpicked guitar piece. This has a little bit of echo on it, but it’s still solo guitar.
By the way, remember “Ode to Code”? It is supposed to be in the next issue of Space Squid. 🙂
I am hugely behind on these book reviews. I figured I’d start with the ones by friends. 🙂
Tales of the Atlantic Pirates and Tales Of The Jersey Devil are both by Geoff Girard. I went to college with him, and we found these on Amazon and had to pick them up. We’re alas, not in touch anymore, but I am glad to see that he kept up with the writing! The Jersey Devil was something that I had never really read into before, so it was great to learn more about that myth; and the pirate stories range from the swashbuckling to the surprisingly sensitive. Plus the historical research is great. Read More “Book review-o-rama part one”
A helpful interview has been posted at Virtual Worlds News. It sounds like basically Metacrasher is trying to create glue between worlds — intermediary formats and tools that can export data to differing worlds.
This is only needed because of all these silly proprietary formats, of course. 😛
I don’t know if you have all seen Askville, Amazon.com’s post-questions-and-get-answers site, but it’s very very clearly inspired by games (XP, levels, etc!). Enough so that one blogger already wondered aloud if they were inspired by my ETech talk (I personally doubt it, but if it’s so, I’d love to get royalties 😉 Amazon gift certificates would do…).
Well, Virtual Worlds News is reporting that this system, which is based on winning virtual currency, is designed to hook into something called Questville which will launch this year. And that Questville will be a virtual world of some sort. Details are thin on the ground though.
Metacrasher.com is the site for a new company that seems to be trying to create bridging software so that tools and the like will work across multiple different virtual world platforms. The website seems a bit broken in places, and there isn’t much info, but I was highly amused to see that they apparently support Areae’s texture-mapping format. 🙂
Jokes aside, the idea is interesting — essentially, creating a directory of places in worlds, and presumably wrapping software so that you can “see into” various different worlds. They have tests going with Ogoglio apparently.
