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On parody, and how to respond about it

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

A very short post, this.

The Parody
The Response

Now, if all law schools could please make this a case study in 101 trademark law…
(thanks to Giovanni for pointing out the “Permit and Proceed” letter to me. I was aware of the parody, even made SL tshirts with the logo to hand out in SL…)

SecondLife client goes GPL

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Well, GPL seems to be all the craze these days - after Sun with Java, LindenLabs now follows by Open Sourcing their viewer software under the GPL.
This is a great move for more than a single purpose. For starters, you can now add your own goodies to the SLviewer - expect to see a plug-in […]

The Milgram Experiment and Web 3.D

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Nature (subscribers only, excerpt here) reports on an experiment whereby experimenters have repeated the Migram Experiment with a 3D modelled victim. As it turns out, the subjects responded both physiologically and emotionally to the stress induced by their virtual reality victim suffering - the news for researchers is that this may open the doors to […]

The strangest press conference ever…

Wednesday, November 15th, 2006

Ok - I confess. I hang around in Second Life (look for “Marius Maeterlinck”, with a bit of luck I’ll be wearing my Squeak T-shirt later this week ). And I was looking for interesting stuff, when I found out that Sun was holding a press conference over Java’s open sourcing (it’s going to […]


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