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Interested in the real and synthetic environments and the precarious line between them.

THE MONSTER ENGINE - What if a kid's imagination....was better represented?
Topic: Arts 4:24 pm EST, Mar 18, 2006

This guy really is good at what he does. Kid's draw pictures of their 'monsters' and super-heros, and he takes those pictures, and paints them realistically, all the while leaving the basic lines and scope of the drawings.

THE MONSTER ENGINE - What if a kid's imagination....was better represented?


Now YOU can Never Take a Rorschach Test
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:19 pm EST, Mar 17, 2006

Disclaimer Of Use
Reading the information provided here could compromise the administration of the Rorschach test, invalidating your answers. If you don't wish to take the Rorschach test (and we suggest NOT taking it in the context of a custody dispute if at all possible), tell the psychologist that you are familiar with the Rorschach test, have read about the test and have seen the inkblots. Any ethical psychologist will decline to administer the test upon learning this, and the issue of the test's validity will be a moot point.

An interesting explanation/exposure of this psych tool, from what looks like a parental custodial dispute site of all places.

I have always wondered what this test revealed about someone, in an objective manner. Doesn't look too objective at all. I bet you'd reach the same conclusions holding up magazine ads in from of people.

Now YOU can Never Take a Rorschach Test


Roomba Frogger
Topic: Technology 5:39 pm EST, Mar 15, 2006

Or "What My Metaverse Raodmap Partner Does in Austin"

RealFrogger enables users to navigate traffic on a busy artery such as Austin's 6th Street without recourse to dodging speeding vehicles oneself. Instead, the traffic is avoided by a Bluetooth-enabled Roomba, controlled via a PC cradled safely in the arms of a user on the sidewalk.

Also on CNet today: http://news.com.com/Roomba+takes+Frogger+to+the+asphalt+jungle/2100-1043_3-6049922.html?tag=st.txt.caro

Roomba Frogger


Metaverse Roadmap at GDC
Topic: Multiplayer Online Games 11:38 am EST, Mar 10, 2006

Metaverse Roadmap: Pathways to the 3D Web
Speaker: Bridget Agabra Goldstein (Project Manager, Acceleration Studies Foundation)
Date/Time: Thursday (March 23, 2006) 12:00pm — 1:00pm
Track: Game Design
Format: 60-minute Roundtable
Experience Level: All

Session Description
This fall, a small, interdisciplinary group gathered by Acceleration Studies Foundation will begin crafting the Metaverse Roadmap (MVR). The MVR is a comprehensive 10-year technology forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, markets, and applications. Areas of exploration include the convergence of networked video games (ex: Xbox Live), virtual worlds (ex: Second Life), massively multi-player games (ex: World of Warcraft), 3D animation (ex: Massive Software), 3D creation tools (ex: Maya), 3D fabrication (ex: Fab Lab), artificial life (ex: Darwin@Home), digital maps (ex: Google Earth), and the underlying trends in hardware, software, connectivity, business innovation and user adoption that will drive their transformation and development in the coming decade. Roundtable groups will map the hottest Metaverse areas for growth, and debate the most likely issues of introduction and adoption. Outcome will be incorporated in the framing of this groundbreaking study, with continuing participation opportunities for attendees.

Idea Takeaway
The game industry stands on the edge of a new space in human interaction. Attendees will affiliate themselves with a groundbreaking public work, contribute to a management tool to be referenced and maintained for years to come, and come away with new foresight tools/vision.

Intended Audience
Game designers, 3D creators, peripheral makers, futurists, academics, entrepreneurs.

No, I am not the only speaker but this is my first GDC speakers session - there willl be two sessions one on Thurs and one a little later on Friday.

Metaverse Roadmap at GDC


Resource for More Speaking Opportunities
Topic: Miscellaneous 12:05 pm EST, Mar  9, 2006

Welcome to the Speakers' Wiki
A listing of speakers, their websites and affiliation, contact information, past speaking engagements and other important information to help conference organizers choose speakers to talk on important topics, including speakers resources.

The people starting this are games focussed, but there is a broad range of people here.

We do know that when Memestream members speak at a conference, sometimes it changes the world.

Resource for More Speaking Opportunities


Fantasy Pop Tech Prediction Marketplace
Topic: Technology 12:01 pm EST, Mar  9, 2006

The Tech Buzz Game is a fantasy prediction market for high-tech products, concepts, and trends
Predict the technologies people will be searching the web for in the future.

Put your (fantasy) money where your mouth is by buying stock in the technologies you believe will be popular and selling stock in the technologies you think will flop.

Interesting opinion aggregation mechanism.

Fantasy Pop Tech Prediction Marketplace


Metaverse Roadmap
Topic: Technology 1:31 pm EST, Jan 16, 2006

The MVR is a comprehensive 10-year technology forecast and visioning survey of 3D Web technologies, markets, and applications (see ASF's technology roadmapping page). This includes the convergence of networked video games (ex: Xbox Live), virtual worlds (ex: Second Life), massively multi-player games (ex: World of Warcraft), 3D animation (ex: Massive Software), 3D creation tools (ex: 3ds Max), 3D prototyping and fabrication (ex: Fab Lab), artificial life (ex: Darwin@Home), digital maps of our planet (ex: Google Earth), and the underlying trends in hardware, software, connectivity, business innovation and user adoption that will drive their transformation and development in the coming decade.

Designed as a "living forecast," the MVR aims to be regularly updated by an expert community of interest in a range of technology, business, policy, and social science domains. The process kicks off with an invitational Metaverse Roadmap Summit at SRI in spring 2006.

I have just joined the driven team at Acceleration Studies Foundation (Accelerating.org, the people behind Accelerating Change conferences) as Project Manager for the MVR. Using my background in non-profit governance, business and extensive game research network, I am working with them to bring everything together for this important creation. Website with more info will be up in a few weeks, email me if you have questions, comments, suggestions, recommendations before then.

-Bridget

Metaverse Roadmap


Cornerstone Visual Thinking Software Idea Mapping Software
Topic: Technology 12:25 pm EST, Dec 25, 2005

Cornerstone: Visual Thinking
Software for Mapping and Visual Thinking
Cornerstone: Visual Thinking software is designed to complement and echo the way your mind works. It will therefore help you to:
understand and remember new ideas
improve planning and communication
generate better solutions to problems

You can use Cornerstone by yourself, to help you think and learn, and in groups within your company or organisation, to generate new ideas naturally, effortlessly and enjoyably.
Click on the menu to learn more about how Cornerstone: Visual Thinking can help you, your team or your organisation.

Cornerstone Visual Thinking Software Idea Mapping Software


Flying Spaghetti Monster vs Darwin and the Other Guy
Topic: Miscellaneous 2:17 pm EST, Dec 20, 2005

We will of course be able to train the teachers in this alternate theory. I am eagerly awaiting your response, and hope dearly that no legal action will need to be taken. I think we can all look forward to the time when these three theories are given equal time in our science classrooms across the country, and eventually the world; One third time for Intelligent Design, one third time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, and one third time for logical conjecture based on overwhelming observable evidence.

This is utterly engaging.

Look for actual letters back from some Kansas School Board members:
http://www.venganza.org/response.htm

and the simulcra creation guide:
http://www.venganza.org/spread/simulacrum.htm

A note about the FSM Holiday season. People keep asking me what the FSM winter holiday is called - Ramendan, Pastamas, etc. Clever (not really), but no. Our winter holiday is named "Holiday", and stretches most of December and January. Consider how much our religion has spread over the last couple years; how many schools and businesses refer not to the "Christmas season", but to the pastafarian "Holiday season" instead? - Strong evidence of our rapid growth. A special thanks goes to Walmart, who rejected the Christian phrase "Merry Christmas" in favor of the Pastafarian greeting "Happy Holidays". We appreciate your support.

Flying Spaghetti Monster vs Darwin and the Other Guy


White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times
Topic: Society 10:05 am EST, Nov  9, 2005

Q Yes, but Cheney has gone to the Senate and asked for an exemption on --

MR. McCLELLAN: No, he has not. Are you claiming he's asked for an exemption on torture? No, that's --

Q He did not ask for that?

MR. McCLELLAN: -- that is inaccurate.

Editor & Publisher is often good for a giggle.

I don't giggle, it scares me, really scares me. I feel so out of place in this America, I feel terribly pessimistic about the country my kids will face as adults.

How low can our standards for truth in communication go?

White House Briefing: McClellan Deflects Questions on Torture Exemption A Couple Dozen Times


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