Monthly Archives: February 2007

Ethics Bowl

I don’t know where to fit this, but someone has noted that my course on Cyberporn ended up being cited as part of one of the cases in the National Ethics Bowl. It strikes me that it is framed in a rather peculiar way, and there are much more interesting ethical questions involved, but hey–I’m [...]
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None of my business

Met with the tax accountant in his office in the New Yorker Hotel (not as seedy as it sounds) and after dinner rode the 1 train home. A couple gets on at 42nd and sits nearby. He looks to be of northern European stock, with a neatly trimmed goatee, and she more slavic, with a [...]
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On Second Life and Presence

I have only marginally been keeping track of some of the discussions over the “importance” of Second Life. Frankly, I’m not sure it’s time to get too meta. It may be enough to say: there are interesting things going on, it is changing rapidly, you would be stupid to miss the good stuff by not [...]
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Thought bombs

Am I the only one who sees the arrest of two artists as a scary thing. Boston had a citywide “bombscare” because of the “Mooninite” magnetic LED signs that had been posted near roadways in the city. The two men responsible for building the devices have been arrested for making “bomblike” devices. The CNN story [...]
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