Tag: sadville
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Sadville bans usury
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Andrew Orlowski
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The global financial crisis has encroached on that escapist Garden of the Id, Second Life. Linden Labs is to ban virtual banks from the virtual playground, the operator said in a statement yesterday. The problem is that the virtual money-lenders operate rather too much like their real world counterparts. wrote Ken D., yesterday “Since the…
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Sadville is great for bubblewrap kids – BBC
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Andrew Orlowski
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TV shrink Tanya Byron blamed over-protective parents for keeping “bubble wrap” kids away from real social interaction and tethered to technology such as the internet, we reported yesterday. The government is hiring Byron to tout a “Live Consultation”, soliciting views on how the internet might affect children. That’s your taxes at work, Part One. How…
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Really Stupid Things People Say About Technology. No.38,014
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Andrew Orlowski
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Two items of interest for those of you who collect Really Stupid Things People Say About Technology. [The first plea for Web 2.0 corporate welfare I had noticed. It came from The Guardian]… Read More