Posts by D. H. McKee

Buying tea for Buddha

Just finished shopping at a couple of stores in the GTA. Doing a friend a favour by shuttling her around...

Is It Good for the Jews?

Two weeks ago, a group of senior intelligence officials in the Defense Department sat for an hour listening to a briefing by a writer who claims . I am not making this up . that messages encoded in the Hebrew text of the Old Testament provide clues to the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden. One of the officials told me that they had agreed to meet the writer, Michael Drosnin, author of a Nostradamus-style best seller, without understanding that he was promoting Biblical prophecy. Still, rather than shoo him away, they listened politely as he consumed several man-hours of valuable intelligence-crunching time. Apparently he has given similar briefings to top officials of Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

Cat Mutilator Captured

On March 8, 2003 at approximately 10pm the Find Matt Campaign received information that Matt had been arrested in Vancouver, British Columbia by police following a tip from an SPCA agent who had visited the campaigns website.
Started on April 2, 2002 the Find Matt Campaign had one goal - to aid police in the search for one of three young men who mutilated and killed a tame female house-cat, while capturing their actions on video.

Safe back from SF

Back from the USA again. Picked up a cold while I was there, and I have to say … I’m...

A Truly Canadian Apology to the USA

Courtesy of Rick Mercer from "This Hour Has 22 Minutes" on CBC Television:
On behalf of Canadians everywhere I'd like to offer an apology to the United States of America. We haven't been getting along very well recently and for that I am truly sorry...

The Education of Corporal Gunderson

Everyone should read this, especially Americans.
"I got to the Gulf in the beginning of January. I remember the day the air war started (Jan. 17, 1991). I was standing on the flagship of our fleet. We tried to listen to the BBC to find out what was going on, but they did not let us listen to anything. They kept us in the dark. So I did a lot of reading. Books were passed around. I started reading conspiracy books because that's all there was. I wanted to know about how the world worked. I can't remember the exact book titles, but they were about the government and corporations, like one about how light bulbs are made to wear out by a certain time so people are forced to consume more. We would talk about stuff like that a lot. After that, I didn't trust anything."

Breakfast from Hell

Careful. It’s poison. Okay, it’s not really poison, but you’d probably have to drink oil to flush this shit out,...

Worlds.com

As far as online virtual reality metaverses go, this one's pretty good. It's apparently been around since 1995, and has a similar interface to ActiveWorlds. But it's much much better, and didn't cost anything to get online. There's a pretty extensive avatar list, and you can probably make your own. Still looks like a Dire Straits video, however.
Communities of users build their own houses, cities, and, in some cases, worlds. With 900,000 subscribers, AlphaWorld is supported by advertising and by subscription fees ranging from $10 to $1,000, based on how many users there are and how big a virtual space they occupy.
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Can a Metaverse Have Inflation?

If you want to set up a real economy, you call in a real economist. Tom Melcher knew from the...

As the virtual worlds turn

Metaverses come and, mostly, go. Those created as avatar-based watering holes have rarely lasted more than a few years, falling...