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...Taylor may have brushed the affair aside had it not been the second time Pollard strayed. Shortly after her marriage, Taylor woke from an afternoon nap to find Pollard watching his Dave Barmy avatar having sex with a computer-generated prostitute...
...Second Life, users create an online persona, known as an avatar, which moves freely through the imagined world, making friends, socializing and buying property with the game's virtual currency, the Linden dollar (so named for the developers behind the game). At any given moment, 38,000 users are logged on to the site...
...Taylor met her 40-year-old husband, David Pollard, in an online chat room in 2003. Their mutual interest in Second Life helped their relationship flourish, and the couple married two years later. To mark the occasion, Laura Skye married Dave Barmy, Pollard's avatar (who clearly opted for the modest lifestyle on the game, living in a chalet with a Cobra helicopter gunship parked next to it), in a lavish ceremony on Second Life. "People find love in lots of different ways," Taylor said...
...animation studios, Pixar and DreamWorks, stand above the rest as multibillion-dollar box-office titans and as entertainment delivery systems. But they have distinct, nearly opposite artistic personalities. Pixar (Toy Story, Finding Nemo, WALL-E) is the clear avatar of the Walt Disney style, stressing sympathetic characters and seamless storytelling. DreamWorks (the Shrek trilogy, Shark Tale) updates the dazzle and impudence of the Warner Bros. cartoon studio of the '30s, '40s and '50s - a faster pace, lots of sight gags and pop-culture allusions; its movies tend toward anarchy but land in vaudeville. DreamWorks is contemporary, Pixar timeless. Both work...
...part of the weekly Berkman Luncheon Series. Obama used his fundraising advantage over Republican candidate John McCain to buy advertisements in online video games, including the racing game “Burnout Paradise” and role-playing game Second Life. Republican presidential candidate John McCain also had an avatar on Second Life, but Obama supporters playing Second Life painted virtual graffiti and virtually double-parked in front of McCain’s virtual apartment, according to Hillygus. Such advertising was less effective for McCain because his constituency was less likely to play video games, she said...