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Things On Lisa Rein's Fair and Balanced Mind Today

I've been going through my Life machinima from 2008, and I've found some real gems from last year that I never put up. The first is NASA Ames Director, Pete Worden (wikipedia - twitter), speaking at last year's Next Generation Exploration Conference a...

As I mentioned in my last post, I've been thinking a lot about what we can do this time around to protect ourselves against another repeat performance of either the 2000 or 2004 elections. We were tricked both times in different subtle ways, and it is ...

Although Obama is currently WAY ahead in the polls, I remain cautiously pessimistic until the race is safely over, and I urge you to come to your polling place with a notepad and camera in hand, to take note of anything strange that may happen when yo...

Hey guys, time to put good taste aside this weekend and come to the premiere of the comedy-horror flick I'm in - and I sing the theme song for - premiering this weekend in San Francisco. I'll be there for Friday night's 7:30 show! Hope to see you...

I don't really feel informed enough about the situation to say anything too useful. But suffice to say, it ain't too cool, and I'm concerned. I've already expressed my concerns in a song a few years ago [lyrics]. Same company, different country, and i...

Come play at Wishfest 1.0 ! Last night's Wishfest 1.0 show started off our festival with a big bang. About 24 people showed up -- that's actually a lot for an SL event! As you can see from the movies, it was really hoppin! Here's my favorite of C...

On April 1, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet had a congressional hearing on virtual worlds. The official title of the hearing was "Online Virtual Worlds: App...

This is from the April 7, 2008 program. More on the Congressional hearings on virtual worlds. Video files: 17 MB -- 56 MB Sound files: MP3 -- aiff The Daily Show - The best news on TV.

(Click on picture to play movie.) The Node Zero Gallery opening on March 13th went great! "Sheep Vortex" is an interactive art installation created by Spot and artist/SL programmer Somatika Xao. Here's a little video I made of the night's events. ...

My pal Kevvy writes a great post looking back on the protests of March 20, 2003. Oh the good times! Being threatened by officers donned with clubs! Trampled by horses in broad daylight, and to a good soundtrack even! This was one of the first flashm...

Where: Node Zero Gallery, Life Date: Thursday, March 13 Time: 6-9 pm SLTLive Q & A w/Spot at 7pm Teleport to the Sheep VortexVortex SLURL Teleport to the Main Node Zero GalleryMain Gallery SLURL Join us this Thursday evening from 6-9pm as the Node...

"Once you figure out what your strengths are, then you really have a responsibility to contribute.That's what this movement's about." -- Jenifer Fox Saturday, March 1, launched the kickoff event for Strengths Island, a groundbreaking interactive e...

Wired just published a piece on the follow up to the lovely little piece of poo that is Monsturd. (My Monsturd site.) Could directors Rick Popko and Dan West think of anything worse than a serial killing shit monster? Of course they could! The new ...

Wow my worlds collide again. I just met Aubrey last October. Now, he's on the Colbert Report. (sidenote: I have an 45 interview of my own with him that I'll be putting up soon, but I really wanted to present it just the right way. I told him I wante...

You know, everything I have to say about John McCain I already said back in 2004. What was true then is perhaps even truer now. This animation says it better than words ever could.

Hey I just put these links together for someone and decided, if it was my best stuff, that I should put them up here for you too. I need to make mp3s of them still i think. Sorry, I will do that soon! 1. Dead Sunshine 2. Facetwit 3. Democracy ...

Lyrics (below) --I just wanted to link to these two new songs, and let you know that I've got a party going on this Friday night at Ireland's 32 in San Francisco. I'll be playing two sets starting at 7pm. Pizza gets there at 6:30. The party can go on ...

Printable pdfThanks again to Critter for the great flyer! So I guess I couldn't have waited any later to tell you about my birthday party sunday night - ireland's 32 3920 geary, SF - 415-386-6173 -- i'll be playing around 9 and then off and on all n...

So I've been sitting on these life movies for months now and I just have to start putting them up! Here's one from July, that I actually edited when I was in Vancouver, of me flying around for a while, ending up at the Long Now Foundation's Alice Wond...