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...uninitiated who aren’t hip enough to already have an “avatar,” and whose personal assets don’t include Linden dollars, let me introduce you to Second Life (SL), an alternate cyber-world, more or less like our own, except that its inhabitants can fly and teleport...
Unlike more conventional online networking sites like MySpace or Facebook, whose members are limited to mere profile pages, SL offers its subscribers an online world where their avatars, cartoon proxies for real-life people, interact, albeit online, in all the ways you and I interact in the real world. Among other things, SL has its own currency, the Linden dollar, which can be exchanged for American dollars...
...frustrated. I decided to tackle a small project, a dinner party movie. I was going set it during Thanksgiving, but I am an observant Jew, and I realized that there are no Passover movies. THC: Were you concerned that your film would not have appeal for non-Jewish audiences? SL: I wasn’t concerned about that. I believe that too many movies speak to nobody’s experience because they try to speak to everybody’s experience. You get at the universal through the specific. “My Big Fat Greek Wedding?...
...shot and injured on campus early on the morning of Jan. 15 after walking past what local police have called a failed armed robbery. A stray bullet hit Oishi in her left thigh as an unknown gunman struggled with two men over the keys to a Mercedes-Benz SL-Class Roadster. She was immediately transported to the Penn hospital and was released later that day, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian, the university’s student paper. Michael Barrett, 31, and Robert Keith, 24, were also shot in the incident. Both men were treated for gunshot wounds and were released...
...launch in 2002 and moved aggressively to fix them. More than 200 SWAT teams of engineers ripped the car apart to identify and overcome the flaws, which included design and production snafus in complex electronics systems. The firm this year recalled 1.3 million cars, including C-Class and SL-Class as well as E-Class models built between 2002 and '05, took back the lemons, switched engines in some models and started providing two-year full-service warranties to disgruntled owners. In the process, the brand has rebuilt its quality-control management and now says the autos it builds...