William Gibson on Second Life

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Gibson, talking on CityTV about his experience doing a book launch in second life, was interesting. He talked about his first thoughts on cyberspace as being corporate, and pushing it aside so to explore the cracks and spaces in between in his writing. As for second life itself, he found it to be Disneyfied… Linden Land. Strangely enough there are lots of alley ways and cracks to find strange things in, but they’re vacant. Why? Because alleys and cracks between things are places where unwanted garbage accumulates, and that can’t happen in SL… just shopping shopping shopping. Probably a prim problem.

Journal of Dracula Studies

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I have just been named co-editor of the Journal of Dracula Studies (archived issues available free online). JDS has been published since 1999 under the editorship of Elizabeth Miller, is indexed by the Modern Language Association, and is a publication Transylvanian Society of Dracula (Canadian Chapter).

Online test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology

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Ok, I took this test Online test based on Jung - Myers-Briggs typology and ended up as a ISFP Profile. I won’t say what jeremy and rochelle came up as.

Some points:

Organized education is difficult for the majority of ISFPs, and many drop out before finishing secondary education.

ISFPs internalize their Feeling (by nature a judging function) which bursts out spontaneously and leaves as quickly and mysteriously as it came.

ESFPs express thoughts more readily (and, in the main, skillfully). ISFPs can and do perform admirably in the spotlight, but generally have little to say about the performance.

Feeling, unbridled by the external forces of society and substance, is the dominant function. ISFPs spontaneously develop their own codes and credos, about which they are quite sober and intense. ISFPs are questors, driven to find the pure and ideal, as personally and individually defined. Feeling may temporarily turn outward, but cannot be long sustained beyond its cloistered home.

If the individual has values greater than herself, feeling may express itself in valiant acts of selflessness. Turned in upon self, however, it becomes an unscrupulous, capricious enigma, capable even of heinous acts of deception and treachery.

ISFPs keep a finger on the pulse of here and now. They are more adept at doing than considering, at acting than reflecting, at tasting than wondering. As do most SPs, ISFPs keenly sense color, sound, texture, and movement. It is not unusual for ISFPs to excel in sensory, motor, or kinesthetic abilities.

ISFPs cherish their impulses. Some of the most beautiful, graceful, and artistic performances are the result of this drive for physical, sensate expression.

I particularly like SOME of the famous ISFPers:

Marie Antoinette
Auguste Rodin
Ulysses S. Grant
Fred Astaire
Marilyn Monroe
Liberace
Elizabeth Taylor
Yogi Berra, (”It’s deja vu all over again.”)