Last night I attended a lecture in San Francisco by J. Craig Venter–perhaps the highest profile proponent of synthetic biology around–at an event sponsored by The Long Now  Foundation. (More about what Venter had to say later.) While standing in line to get in I met a guy named Robert Cormia, a faculty member at Foothill College. We got to ...

Well, here’s a movie made in Second Life during the event that’s up on YouTube. Actually, there are lots of Relay videos on YouTube.

The expansion of real-world-like activities being experimented with in Second Life is reported by a Washington Post article. Singer Susan Vega reccently did a small concert in Second Life via her avatar. There’s a long way to go to make virtual reality appealing to the average person, but the appeal is identified in this quote: "A virtual world brings something ...

The ACS pantheon of web sites has an new member: relayforlife.org. It’s a platform for Relay For Life enthusiasts–and there are many. It’s the beginning of a RFL ecommunity. You can participate in forums, have a blog, and form a buddylist. Check it out!