IEET conference in Second Life

Friday june, 30 a second virtual conference was held on Uvvy Island. This was also a second opportunity to test the Vivox-software. The guys from Vivox had learned from the first time; things went a lot smoothier and when I entered the conference room in the Space Habitat it was rather easy to be added […]

Virtual Transvision at Uvvy Island

On wednesday the event took place that was one of the reasons – if not the only reason – for me to sign up for a second life account: the first conference on transhumanism in a VR environment. Powered by Vivox it became possible to communicate with each other not losing time by typing your […]

Long time, no post

My RL and my SL consume too much time, so there isn’t very much left to write in this journal. I’ll give you an update about last week. Of course I visited Dublin. Again, I saw nobody there; it must be a great place but there are no visitors when I am there (are they […]

Tour on Uvvy Island

For more than a week my Real Life absorbed me fully, so I wasn’t able to visit 2L (just one simple log-in to receive my weekly fee of L$ 50). But today I found the time to come back again. Visiting Uvvy Island – the new project by Giulio Perhaps and his team that is […]

Dublin

I’ve never been to Dublin IRL, but in 2L Dublin is one teleport-click away. I read about the Dublin Sim in the Metaverse Messenger of 2006 04 25. City photographs are used for the design of the sim, owned by Ham Rambler. When I walked into a shop, I was attracted by a piece of […]

Presentation on Transhumanism in SL

On April 22 Giu1i0 Pri5c0 will give a presentation on transhumanism in Sl. at Mocis/29/12/29 Giu1io Pri5c0 is member of the Future Technologies Advisory Group and wrote about 2L before. I visited the room and watched the slides, perhaps not very impressive IRL, but, since it is a first experiment for a presentation in 2L […]

  • The Aesthetics and Beauty of Knowledge

    Shih was the opposite of facts and raw information; shih was the elegance of knowledge, the insight and skill to organize knowledge into meaningful patterns. As an artist chooses colours or light to make her pictures, a master of shih chooses textures of knowledge – various ideas, myths, abstractions, and theories – to create a way of seeing the world. The aesthetics and beauty of knowledge – this was shih.

    – David Zindell, The Broken God, 1993

  • Geek Attitude

    The attitude thing is about flexibility, portability, creativity, sociability and jamming (ran out of suitable “ity” words!). It’s about improvising – in the practical and musical senses of the word; not getting tangled in boundaries and the “right” way to do things.
    Definitely the only way to travel.
    Martin Delaney – “Laptop Music”.