Jul 1, 2012
Followup to Episode 126. Now we know what Second Life is, what is it you do there? Just about anything and everything, I suppose. Second Life as Social Media. Second Life as a virtual world and "actual" place, where you don't spend time killing people or critters for gold. Mostly.
Jun 18, 2012
Leo LaPorte said on "This Week in Tech" that he abandoned Second Life because "it's all about sex." Made my jaw drop to the floor. After I picked it up, this is what I wanted to tell you about Second Life, what it's not "all about," and what it is, at least from my viewpoint.
Jun 16, 2012
Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 2 of 2
"Having said that Individuality is the same thing with development, and that it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well-developed human beings, I might here close the argument: for what more or better can be said of...
Jun 9, 2012
Chapter 3 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 1 of 2
"Such being the reasons which make it imperative that human beings should be free to form opinions, and to express their opinions without reserve; and such the baneful consequences to the intellectual, and through that to the moral nature of man, unless...
Feb 25, 2012
Chapter 2 - OF THE LIBERTY OF THOUGHT AND DISCUSSION. Part 4 of 4
"In politics, again, it is almost a commonplace, that a party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life; until the one or the other shall have so enlarged its mental grasp as...