19 Sep 2007
Bloody 70-year-old cuffed for dead lawn

I had no idea that failure to maintain landscaping was a misdemeanor, much less that it could get you beaten and cuffed...

OREM, Utah (AP) -- A 70-year-old woman arrested in a dispute over her brown lawn pleaded not guilty Tuesday, then stood by as a Los Angeles lawyer waved handcuffs for the cameras outside court.

(link) [CNN.com]

20:38 /Politics | 1 comment | permanent link

Standards For Interconnecting Virtual Worlds

I'm virtually mesmerized by the idea of the virtual universe, despite never having ventured very far into it. How long will it be before we can instantiate a copy of ourselves into a virtual world and achieve immortality, of a sort?

Linden Lab, developers of the popular 3D platform "Second Life" started to think about an open standard for interconnecting virtual worlds. The motivation behind this is to make Second Life more scalable but also to allow connection of other grids not hosted by Linden Lab. The process of defining components and protocols is supposed to be handled completely in the open with community participation. When finished the protocol documentation is supposed to be submitted to standard committees such as IETC, W3C etc. The discussion has already started on the Second Life wiki and you can also find a first architecture proposal by Linden Lab.

(link) [Slashdot]

19:45 /Technology | 2 comments | permanent link