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Debbie Does Spam

Lately, nearly all my spam comes from a deborah-something email address. I don’t know what is behind the recent onslaught (these things seem to go in cycles: get a watch, refinance your mortgage, shrink this, grow that…) I only know that the great tide of unwanted bits never stops. Spam is on the sordid end [...]

The web is the real world

I am increasingly uncomfortable with IRL (in real life) versus online distinctions, so Joshua Porter’s The Non-collision of Relationship and Independent George post really resonated with me.
Two ideas in particular stood out, here’s the first:

I think the dichotomy of a “digital life” being somehow different from our “real life” is becoming more false every day. [...]

First Impressions of Second Life

I decided to check out Second Life because I figured the only way to really answer my questions about it (starting with, what is the appeal?) was to explore on my own.
In a very short time, I’ve come up with a whole other set of unexpected questions:

If you are entering a virtual world, why is [...]