Matt & I gave a talk at the London Haskell User Group about 3D things we've been doing when not working on our PhD. It seemed to go down well, judge for yourselves at: google video of talk, high res version of talk, and slides here.
I've finally given in and succumbed to joining a social networking site. Irritatingly I've just spent the best part of 3 hours clicking aimlessly. On the plus side there's even a haskell group, which may confuse any of my non-techie wandering friends...
So I've just seen this clip of the PS3's "home" virtual spaces / location / places / meeting / you-don't-need-a-real-life-just-live-on-you-PS3 application. It looks visually quite pretty and rather feature complete; but, and I'm probably the only one, I find these "show off your creative self" type applications really tiresome and pretty dull. It's also quite scary, how at a swoop you could remove a person's need to interact socially with people in a non-virtual way by providing something close enough to reality that you can get by with. I'm more interested in how long it'll take for some bullying lawsuit, gang-related online terrorism news story, or just someone smart to import guns into it...
Welcome to my new(ish) weblog. Who knows what will end up on here...