Trevor F. Smith: Exterior

links for 2007-11-24

• Why Starfish can’t jump
  VeeJay Burns posits that Second Life isn't a spider verse (a la Rod Beckstrom's definition) but a mix of spider and starfish.
  (tags: decentralization secondlife beckstrom)

My Mom and I in Second Life

My mother is a university educator and their department is running a few experiments in Second Life, so over the Thanksgiving holidays we logged in to take a few screenshots. She was surprised to find that her son is a black void:

She really likes the funny animations:

Hello, Android

links for 2007-11-09

• OS X and Native Tomcat
  A simple HOWTO for OS X users to make Tomcat blazing fast and Comet ready.
  (tags: Apache tomcat comet OSX)

links for 2007-11-08

• Bruce Sterling: The Interoperation
  The Lozano Building Network didn't create fine buildings. It instantiated shelter goods. The mass of workaday, crowd-pleasing real-estate fakery that arose from his network wasn't "architecture." It was best described as "hard copy."
  (tags: city 3space)