Obama’s got $200M for Virtual Worlds
Ok, so it’s not specifically for Virtual Worlds, but the stimulus package does apparently include money for National Institute of Health grants that include scientific research involving virtual worlds…
from the NIH Challenge Grant website:
Funded projects would develop and implement virtual collaborative environments to facilitate biomedical and translational research, e.g. addressing issues of privacy, technology transfers and sharing resources.
There’s also talk of Facebook and Second Life style applications helping to “eliminate barriers to scientific collaboration.”
Fun with random TinyURLs
It’s not so easy to type random words into a search engine or web browser. So if you’re unemployed and looking for some random webpages you have to get creative.
But it’s easy to type random TinyURLs, since they are made up of random numbers and letters. I stumbled upon this recently when talking to a friend about TinyURL over IM, and typed an example. Just out of curiosity I clicked the resultant link to discover that the University of Greenwich is looking for an offshore hydrocarbon mapping engineer. http://tinyurl.com/376453
Who knew?
So I started typing in some more random TinyURLs and here’s what I found…
a viral app where you can add your own subtitles to a Bollywood movie clip
http://tinyurl.com/jk76o
Human beatboxer, Kid Beyond, demonstrating an Ableton sampler
http://tinyurl.com/9345g
a helpful list of “Jewish Motorcycle” related websites on google
http://tinyurl.com/8132q
An insightful (if somewhat bitter) comparison of The Matrix and Dark City, auto-translated from the original Spanish, complete with side-by-side images.
http://tinyurl.com/3yk87
some lovely (and slightly racy) pictures of Japanese fruit and nuts
http://tinyurl.com/896tv
I could go on and on (since I don’t have a job,) and TinyURLs are practically guaranteed to be good since it wouldn’t be a TinyURL unless it was awesome enough for someone to share it.
If you find anything interesting, post it to the comments.
