Nerds race across Azeroth IRL, nearly die from shame – Engadget

Let’s try not to read too much into this one. Here are the facts: two dweebs thought it would be a good idea to hook up treadmills to their PCs, don brightly-colored wigs and cardboard swords, and race their avatars across about a mile of virtual turf by jogging in place [...]

Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits…? « Learning Lisp

Do you know any programmers that exhibit these personality traits…?
I’ve been observing an unusual programmer friend of mine for some time now. (Yeah… a “friend”, that’s it….) He has such a strange combination of potential and incompetence that its hard to tell if he is just lazy or if he has a “light” form of [...]

Business, and Startups, in Second Life

Using Second Life to Prototype..

“Virtual worlds, of which Second Life is the most populous, are becoming more than just a place where Web surfers socialize, play games, or sell nonexistent products to imaginary people. Increasingly, tech-savvy businesses are using virtual worlds to design, create, and even test product concepts before they make their debut in [...]