Friday, June 15, 2007

Santa Clara University Library on Second Life

Searching for design inspiration for a library-related piece, I happened across the news that Santa Clara University has established a Second Life presence. Also Harvard, Ball State, New York University. Who knew? (probably everyone but me).
Book artist Richard Minsky publishes a magazine on Second Life art and has a Center for the Book in SL.
I'm trying to figure out if Linden Labs is like Google -- are they vast, do they have an agenda, are they privately funded? I think it would help me predict where this is going. Seems like all these universities and government agencies and corporations like Reuters are giving it a vote of confidence.

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Hayward's 5000

Damn fine beer.
Update. Addition, really.
I'm so pleased we have a really good Indian restaurant in our small town. I won't say "finally" because we had one already, but it's in a motel, the chlorine smell of the pool follows you in the restaurant, and it's not super-clean. But this new one is clean and the food is great, lots of vege dishes plus lamb and chicken.
We discovered Hayward's because they had run out of Kingfisher, and the waitress suggested it. I'm glad we took the chance.
Update: that restaurant closed in January 08 or thereabouts : (

Second Life for education and meeting

I've been looking into Second Life since it came up in the discussion at Bill Whittle's blog about building Ejectia. Right now I don't have a computer with a graphics card that supports it, but as soon as I get one I'll at least see what kind of presence Ejectians have developed there.


New Media Consortium campus in Second Life



NOAA's Island in Second Life




Very nice overview of what Second Life can offer educators



San José State University School of Library & Information Science



Ohio University



Texas State's Bobcat Village


Using Second Life to meet exchange students before their visit