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Over at Freakanomics they did a Q&A with the creator of Second Life, Philip Rosedale about Second Life (aka SL). This is interesting stuff - the questions are wide ranging from security and privacy to economics. But I still don't think that SL is a very good

Great to see that Pia and Jeff Waugh have been awarded the NSW Pearcey Award 2007 for their collaboration within the open source software sector and their sustained contribution to the Linux movement in Australia (more at LinuxWorld)

web-20-underground-mapfrom Christian Palau https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/web-20-underground-map/80256

This fab TED talk by Vilayanur Ramachandran that explores how brain damage helps us to study the connection between the internal structures and corresponding functions of the mind. He is the director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego, and an adjunct professor

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion is arguing that the Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid. His evidence includes: * No one's casting a cynical eye anymore. * No one's looking at valuations and reality * The endless dot-com parties are back. * So