The Second Life blogosphere is buzzing about the lawsuit SL resident and well-known virtual sex business operator Stroker Serpentine (real life Kevin Alderman) is filing against someone alleged to be infringing on both his copyright and trademark. The originating story is over on Reuters (Link) where the legal filing is also available for review (Link – PDF).

It’s an interesting case and one which I’ll follow, but it was – based on today’s “sharing” culture – entirely expected.
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Via Trevor Smith’s blog comes word of something called “metacrasher”. From their press release on the site’s homepage (Link):

New York, New York- July 1, 2007- Metacrasher, Inc., a New York based company today announced the launching of the Metacrasher Project. The Metacrasher Project is a 3 phase project to initiate the connecting of all virtual worlds for commerce, content development, software development, by the creation of large networks of p2p and 3d web spaces that will communicate with the growing number of virtual worlds, MMOPG and any other kind of digital social network. Continue reading →

I first came across word of 2a03 / EgnartsTodM / M Dot Strange’s effort on the CGTalk forum some time back and mentioned his film, “We Are The Strange”, in a post last Fall (reLink). Since then, I’ve been following the YouTube conversation off and on, and when I learned of the film being shown in Second Life, as part of Brian Eno’s recent multi-reality event, I logged on to catch both.
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Just wanted to point out an excellent article on the Guardian, “The new age of ignorance” (Link). It’s a great piece that’s worth taking the time to read. For example, it includes this important and worthwhile point:

Ordinary people have to keep up. In the world we live in, the new economy, you have to become scientifically literate or you will fall quickly from view.

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I saw this last week and have been thinking about it ever since; trying to figure out if there’s a similarly elegant solution to a non-planar parting line.

No luck so far.

via Hack A Day