Grace McDunnough

@anadk thanks :)

Apollo 11 Tranquility Base Simulation in Second Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

@salstrange I found what you need http://icanhascheezburger.file...

Forcing myself to watch a talk I gave - it's painful & I should have donated $1 for every time I said "right?" *facepalm*

You are my sweetest downfall .. a little Regina for a Thursday eve ♫ http://blip.fm/profile...

@salstrange maybe you should spend some time here as well http://www.jamcast.co.uk/writing... ;-)

RT @Myrl Official Announcement: Termination of vSide Service http://forums.vside.com/forums...

Some scientists conclude that music’s influence may be a chance event, arising from its ability to hijack brain systems built for other purposes such as language, emotion and movement. As Harvard University psychologist Steven Pinker famously put it in his 1997 book How the Mind Works (W. W. Norton), music is “auditory cheesecake,” a confection... - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

When people repeat what you say but don't really grok it, it's a bummer.

@mostlymuppet it's a happy trip, that's a fact.

@dorie_bernstein It was over in about 30 minutes but it started at 8AM SL

@katydid5 Great link but those are social media spaces leaning toward extending RL identity to online. VWs provide the opposite

Sepp Shimmer, Lifetime Away - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

Why I'm at "User Experience" Office hours today in #sl http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2009...

In a weird sort of way, virtual worlds humanize us more than the real world is able to. While the condition of anonymity can lead to some really destructive individuals, it can also lead to being able to connect to one another without the hangups of social barriers that exist in real life. We can meet individuals who are very different from... - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

Missed this stellar post, don't repeat my mistake. Anti-Aliased: Virtual worlds as the great equalizer http://www.massively.com/2009...

@Octane I'd be interested to hear your perspective on that.

@PierceKronos Some might argue that they already do ...

A few interesting tidbits in here Twitter Usability Test “I don’t get it.” http://nmc.itdevworks.com/...

Google Chrome OS - will it organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful?

The universal propensity of all human beings to exchange information, services and goods, and implicitly and explicitly calculate their social and economic “debts and credits” with one another, is very likely an innate, highly evolved social emotion. Adam Smith correctly saw this propensity to “truck, barter, and exchange” as a primal impulse for... - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

You know what's really "reckless and lazy"? - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

Completely agonizing over having to write a bio, of all things. Self promo FAIL.

Ruder Finn Intent Index - analyzes underlying motivations or reason why people go online.  It’s a little dash of brilliant. - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

This is quite fascinating on a number of levels: Ruder Finn Intent Index http://www.ruderfinn.com/rfrelat...

Some people I work with still use short hand. I admit a tiny tinge of jealousy and intense curiosity

Sir John Sawers' Wife Needs a FB Nanny - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...

July 6 Independence - http://threethanks.wordpress.com/2009...

As things stand, I haven’t yet found a way within Facebook to keyword search discussions. But try the following advanced search string for an insight into what people are saying about the BBC: site:facebook.com/topic bbc Search in Facebook for BBC and the top group coming back is BBC College of Journalism group. Hardly the sort of place you’d... - http://gracemcdunnough.tumblr.com/post...