Apparently so! Found this via Twitter (I’m MadameMaracas there), my latest addiction I present for your amazement, amusement and edification … LOLcat Genesis!


There is an audio recording of it being read as well, here’s that linkie.

Is as one would expect, clever, fun to read and literate. What I didn’t expect is he’s a big ole geek! Gadgets and Web 2.0 and podcasts oh my!


Check out Stephen Fry’s blog here.

Yeap it has happened, well it will next month, Phillip Rosedale will be stepping down as CEO and stay on working on the things he is best at and hopefully turning over the more corporate type reigns over to Mark Kingdon, (M Linden, no I’m not kidding, the letter M).


Here’s a link to the Blog post announcing the choice.


Apparently M has ventured in-world and has sucessfully learned how to be a champion afk’er. A promising start, to be sure.


And so what do I think? I will wait and see, there is so much other stuff going on and changing in world, code wise, etc. I think honestly that any forecasting we might attempt will fall short. This is an entirely new dynamic I suspect, and as always, things won’t be dull.

I slept right through it but apparently last night there was a whole lotta shaking going on down state! We got a bit of an earthquake in the early morning hours waaay down in Salem, but it was felt all over Illinois, Indiana, etc. I guess we’re still having aftershocks as well too. I’m sure for folks from California this is not a big deal but well we’re not used to them here. Besides I worry about the New Madrid fault, a sleeping giant of building-crushing destructive potential.