A woman has divorced her husband for ‘cheating’ on her in a virtual reality game called Second Life.
Amy Taylor, 28, has filed for divorce after she caught her husband David Pollard having a ‘virtual’ affair online with a computer-generated female character, Modesty McDonnell.
Joshua Glenn writes on Boing Boing:
A brilliant time-lapse video of Robert Burden painting a Voltron, 1200 pictures in 900 hours.
Meet ARis, your virtual cam girlfriend. you gotta be kinda sad to play this, but as a virtual torture victim, you have a good one here.
Thomas Beatie also known as the Pregnant Man, who is biologically a woman, is pregnant again just four months after giving birth to a baby girl.
He tells Barbara Walters of ABC News: “I feel good. Everything is right on track. Hiding a pregnant man is like hiding an 800-pound gorilla. Nancy and I wanted to tell our story from our own mouths before it got out.”
Seriously, I thought this was a photoshopped photo of President George W. Bush and his gang, but this is the real deal. We obtained it from the Whitehouse.gov site. It is a photo of the president posing with members of the Arizona State University Men’s and Women’s Track Team Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2008, during a photo opportunity with 2008 NCAA Sports Champions at the White House.
The brilliant Kevin Kelly writes:
I gave a talk yesterday at the Web 2.0 Summit. It’s a short talk, only 10 minutes long, so I decided to skip Web 3 - Web 9 and just speak about the upcoming Web 10.0 and what I think will happen in the next 6,500 days.
Jon Swaine of the Teleggraph compiled a list of 50 things you might not know about Barack Obama:
• He collects Spider-Man and Conan the Barbarian comics
• He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball
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