Second Life Virtual World to Get Firefox

lecreuset writes "Clickable Culture has an article discussing the imminent wedding of Firefox and Second Life. From the article: 'The virtual world of Second Life will leverage an embedded version of Mozilla Firefox in a future release, supporting in-world web browsing and the display of web pages on the surfaces of 3D objects, according to developers at Linden Lab.'"

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[TrollingOnTheRiver]

GNAAMichael Sims Fired, Joins GNAA to Troll Slashdot Full Time
Michael Sims Fired, Joins GNAA to Troll Slashdot Full Time

FREMONT, CA (TECHNEWS) - After a heated debate at Slashdot executive offices, editor Michael Sims was locked out of the building and departed in a tirade of lisping insults, vowing revenge immediately. This morning, industry sources revealed that Sims has joined the infamous trolling organization Gay Nigger Association of America with the intent of trolling Slashdot fulltime.

In a short phone interview with Technews, Sims asserted that he was calm but resolved on his course of action. "The Slashdot editors and I had a disagreement," he explained. "I did it all for the users, but they..." he drew the syllable out painfully, resting on a case full of Little League trophies and certificates of participation from transgendered dating services, "They just couldn't take my truth. They were -- babies, just babies, oh, the horror, the abomination," he said, before being led away by three white-clad male nurses.

According to Harvard Psychology Professor Arnold Rothstahlberg, "trolling" is an internet phenomenon where dissenting users disrupt a site by flooding it with absurd or paradoxical information. "It satisfies the primal id," he said, chewing on a large, bulbous, phallic black cigar. "To justify themselves by forcing their enemies into hysterics. It's a compensatory mechanism much like getting back at the kids who beat you up in high school by installing Linux and using it to pingflood their XP boxes and Macs."

Slashdot editor CmdrTaco was reticent to comment. At an interview conducted in the crap-filled Ann Arbor bungalow he shares with his wife, to whom he proposed over Slashdot, he said, "Well, you know, Slashdot is just a web site. Michael should calm down about this. But if he doesn't, our corporate sponsors will sue him until he's giving $4 blowjobs on Haight Street."

From the GNAA corporate headquarters, a mysterious floating island off the coast of Newfoundland that few reporters have seen and even fewer have returned from with their sexual identities intact, GNAA "Head Programmer" timecop said he was glad to have Sims on hand. "From what I've seen of his postings on Slashdot," said timecop, "he's a total fag. Which is convenient as all our halfops need anal, and I can't handle the drama. That's what's worst about the net: the drama."

Sims has been involved in previous internet firefights, most notably the controversy over the censorware.org website in 2001. While Sims alleges that the site was his creation that was sabotaged by others, his coworkers disagree. Bennett Haselton, security consultant for the "Anarchy Anal" and "Chaos Cumshot" websites, said of Sims, "We set up this website, and left him the password. We have a disagreement, bam, the website goes down and someone raped my two-week-old Labrador puppy with an iPod."

Slashdot Editor CowboyNeal, who was entangled in a whale net after attempting to swim the English channel, spoke fondly of his former coworker. "Michael always brought a certain passion to the work, a passion that was easily ignited and led to many sweaty sessions in the corporate washroom," he said. "I'm not at all surprised he joined an organization of gay niggers. He always like something different and unique in his pasta salads."

Programmer Seth Finkelstein alleges that Sims is "totally unstable" and agreed readily to this interview. "Of course, I'm a disinterested observer," he said. "But anytime I see that closet psychopath and monkey nut-muncher stealing the spotlight from hardworking programmers like myself, I have to speak up, for the benefit of the people, of course," he said. Technews reporters were permitted to leave the premises only after making a PayPal donation to Finkelstein.

Mike Godwin of the EFF, who balances a career as privacy advocate with his hobby of making videos of teen swingers blowing goats, agreed. "I've never met another editor like Michael," he

Second Sense

[Doc Ruby]

"I only see it [Second Life] getting closer to that concept [Snow Crash]"

Your extremely common grammatical mistake (should be "I see it getting only closer to that concept", or "I see it only getting closer to that concept", I believe, to be precisely correct English) reminded me of the problem inferred from reading your sentence literally. Second Life, and all these "immersive" simulations, offer only audio and video (and occasionally controller rumble) feedback. The VR of Snow Crash (and all the popular immersive VR fictions) presents a "second life", a life within a life, by completely simulating all the brain's sensory inputs. So it also has smells, which are always being promised, but never delivered anywhere near even telephone audio quality. The various senses of touch, including temperature, moving texture/viscosity, proprioception, visceral "audio", etc, are all missing. I've never even heard of VR "flavor" research. Second Life is getting closer to the audio/video VR presented in books like Snow Crash, which themselves describe mostly the A/V experience, rather than the other sensoria. Maybe if we got a compelling fiction, which also describes an imaginary VR presenting those sensoria as convincingly as Snow Crash presented A/V avatars, we'd get closer to the kinds of real immersion we imagine while reading the stories.

Re:Second Sense

[Doc Ruby]

So, Anonymous imperfect Coward, only the perfect can criticize the imperfect? In other words, there's no possibility of criticism - no one is perfect. Really, that kind of codependent "my mistakes are OK, because I'm not criticizing yours" are acceptable only in children. And then, only occasionally, while they're learning to become real people. Sensible people heed any valid comment, regardless of from whence it comes, or any flaws in the messenger. We don't learn from the dictates of authority, nor have I claimed to be perfectly authoritative. We recognize correctness, and accept it, or we debate it - or ignore it.

The biggest mistake *you* have made is misreading my posts in this thread. The one to which you responded is entirely about the liberties I take with English, an their justification, while admitting that I make mistakes, too. The other post, from which this subthread descends, doesn't worry one bit about the grammar mistakes in the post to which I replied. In fact, it uses the mistake it identifies to talk about a completely nongrammatical subject, the subject of every sentence in the post except the introductory first one. Meanwhile, I simply offer my assistance in correcting the mistake I noticed, when it mistakenly stated an idea foreign to its actual post, without worrying about it at all. Really, it is *you* who worries about these mistakes and liberties, while even carving out your own grammar nazi exceptions, with "mandatory death sentence" images. I suppose that's correct in the Anonymous Coward idiom.

Re:Second Sense

[Doc Ruby]

Who cares what you say? All you can do is post whining nonsense. You're so infatuated with your own whining that you don't even realize that you're just making yourself a bigger target, with this endless, stupid thread. Now, according to the script, you'll reply with your own surrender masked in some kind of passive agressive post telling me "you've got to have the last word, so you can have it". Baby.

In Darfur...

[Anonymous Coward]

In Darfur, niggers are still acting life niggers.