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Science Library Pad has an interesting piece on a user’s experience of Second Life vs. World of Warcraft. Specifically, the question is why so many people spend hours and hours playing WoW, but spend about five minutes at a time in Second Life (at least, at first).
Second Life is like the blinking […]

 

Dream recorder v1.3 is an OS X app that analyzes your sleeping patterns by taking video of you while you sleep. It can then predict the optimum time to wake you up in the morning, gently remind you when you are probably dreaming (as an aid to practicing lucid dreaming), and also acts as […]

 

It looks like the Ask Later presentations (including mine) from this month’s Ignite Seattle meeting are now available. There were some very fascinating and entertaining sessions that night, ranging from the Black Rock Credit Union to the Dafur Wall to Djork.
I gave a 5-minute lightning talk on the Book Sprint process, and rambled on […]

 

Jason Epstein’s $50,000 on-demand book printer was mentioned on CNN’s Fortune Small Business site. From the article:
“Buying a book could become as easy as buying a pack of gum. After several years in development, the Espresso - a $50,000 vending machine with a conceivably infinite library - is nearly consumer-ready and will debut in […]

 

“Have you ever wanted to build a record player out of Legos? Well, we did…”
Out of nothing but a paper and aluminum foil cone, a pin, and Legos. Neat.
From YouTube.

 

We are very pleased to announce the release of Réseaux sans fil dans les pays en développement, the French translation of Wireless Networking in the Developing World. You can download the PDF for free, or order printed copy. The book is available under a Creative Commons License.
WNDW is also available in English and […]

 

We’ve all read about and seen pictures of how U.S. soldiers in Iraq have outfitted their trucks with customized armor in order to handle powerful explosive IED devices. It’s all in an effort to pick up the slack where government issued weapons and gear fail them. Soldiers are writing home for care packages and asking […]

 

I’ll be giving an Ask Later talk on super-fast, lightweight publishing at Ignite Seattle tomorrow night. The talks follow a popsicle stick bridge building competition sponsored by Make Magazine. The event will be at the CHAC Lower Level in Capitol Hill.
What’s an Ask Later talk? Think lightning talk with slides (every speaker […]

 

An article posted to an eclectic LiveJournal community (Second Lifers) called for submissions for real life and SL photos to compare. LJ user and author kateamdahl writes,
If instead we get in the habit of assuming that everyone is showing their Real Life self, I think we invite trouble, because that’s definitely not the case! […]