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...world Second Life has let gamers visit reproductions of parts of London for several years. And German cyber-tourism site Twinty, which lets people visit a virtual Berlin and Singapore, is also preparing a London launch. But, unlike Near London, shopping isn't the prime focus of those sites. Instead they're about setting up a cyber-life for your virtual alter ego, or avatar, complete with its own apartment and wardrobe. (See a Techland exclusive: the first look at Avatar's 'Interactive Trailer...
Near London shuns humanoid avatars; visitors are instead represented by a colored shaft of light. "If you give them bodies, it gets in the way of the experience," says Alex Wrottesley, founder of Near Global, the firm behind the London site. Because you're shopping for yourself, not your avatar. Moreover, he adds, humanoid avatars "really don't look very good." You can also access Near London through Facebook, which means friends can browse and shop together in real time. (Talking to strangers is not allowed...
...thing or two from the Convicts right now. By once more making such a hysterical search for the reincarnation of Knute Rockne - and by paying Weis an obscene $15 million or more to go away - Notre Dame loyalists risk looking like the petty boosters of a football factory instead of the thoughtful backers of an elite university that regularly cracks the academic top 20 today. And the country today needs Notre Dame the university far more than it needs Notre Dame the football team. That fact shone like the school's Golden Dome this year when Notre Dame defied...
...club. FML,” reads one post, expressing a sentiment that betrays the particular heteronormativity and final club atmosphere at Harvard that those outside our community might not have have experienced. The distress expressed is not negated simply because the writer is part of a disproportionately privileged organization. Instead, problems like these brought anonymously before the Harvard community, deserve that we confront them as a community...
Pizzotti had been trying to make it onto the New York Jets’ roster at the beginning of preseason, but the Jets chose to take Mark Sanchez and Kellen Clemens instead. Perhaps it was a blessing in disguise. New York has stumbled to a 6-6 record, with its record putting it in a three-way tie for third in the AFC Wild Card Race. Green Bay has posted an 8-4 record and currently leads the race for the NFC Wild Card...