Virtual Worlds
A recent study of The Golden Man by Philip K Dick out by the Institute of Advanced Science Fiction recently concluded that the Intellectual Property economy of embedded virtual worlds may begin to match the ticket sales of big budget movies, an economic sector already under threat of being dwarfed by the computer gaming market. [...]
A virtual debate over virtual taxation and virtual governance descended into a virtual form of anarchy, an inside source at the latest State of Play Terra Nova Symposium in New York told reporters at the Bloggian. While anarchy is an obvious and dangerous threat to peace, love, and order in the world, in the virtual [...]
A sixteen inch high Tsunami eroded a beach on the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido after an eight point oh earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean Floor on Wednesday. A Japanese Tsunami Watch alert was quickly issued, calling for all coastal residents in the watch area to prepare for possible evacuation. A tsunami watch is issued [...]
Stumping for Rush Limbaugh IV, who is running for Mayor of Cape Girardeau, Missouri, President George Bush said that the American public would be better off with a lard ass in office than a Democrat. “If I had to choose between being thin and being fat, I might choose being thin– its healthier,” said Bush [...]
This year’s hurricane season could be costly. Among the disappointed this year are roofing contractors on the Gulf Coast. “These mild storms are ruining us. Another month like this and we will be out of business,” according to ABC roofing based in Gulfport, Mississippi. “That means a lot of Mexican families will go starving.” With [...]
A new novella by a woman… what are they all awaiting for? has ressurected the great historical figure of Kurt Godel Alan Turing Ludwig Wittgenstein the Third. In living flesh, the three backed beast now wanders the streets of the present once again. The destructive forces of muttering socially awkward lofty unemployed graduate students the [...]
You may recall the broohaha this last winter when Harvard economists Ricardo Hausmann and Frederico Sturzenegger detailed the existence of economic dark matter to account for the hidden strength of the US economy since the 1980s. What it boiled down to was foreign investors thought America had better exports. That is, foreigners thought American things [...]