Comments on: Change Comes to Washington, and I’m a Week Late: Virtual Worlds inside the Beltway

By: glen

glen — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:05:38 +0000

My favorite line from the video: “the efficiency of the rocket launcher team was very seriously impaired” … they gave rocket launchers to guys they’d just given a dose of LSD?

By: Prokofy Neva

Prokofy Neva — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:53:52 +0000

Yes, that roadmap, which never had very diverse input, needs re-doing completely.

Yes, Forterra is a show-off. But the USG is in SL too, dozens of agencies.

I don’t get this concept of Twinity as a “mirror” world when each person logging on can chose to make a room in repeat versions of a London or a Kiev, so I don’t see how it mirrors one real city when anyone can make one. I haven’t gotten Twinity to work very well yet so I can’t tell you more.

It seems to me that anything someone dubs as a mirror world will instantly either be terribly boring like social studies homework or will be marked up and changed by users.

By: Dusan

Dusan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:55:37 +0000

HAHAHA. Many thanks Alberik! See, this is why they need to bring back Latin in school.

By: Alberik Rotaru

Alberik Rotaru — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 03:20:48 +0000

‘phallus’ is actually a Latinised version of the Greek ‘phallos’ so ‘phallos’ and ‘phalloi’ are prolly to be preferred over ‘phallus’ and ‘phalli’. ‘phalli’ works, but it is not correct to speak of flying phalli unless the flying items are engorged. For the record the Latin plural of ‘penis’ (which actually meant ‘tail’, not penis) is ‘penes’. There is no Latin plural for ‘virus’.

You either use ‘phalluses’, ‘penises’ and ‘viruses’ or, if you cannot live without Classicist pretensions, you must at least get your pretensions right. So there…