This just in ...
Virtual world Second Life's chief technology officer ... has resigned. Cory Ondrejka... quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year.
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Philip Rosedale, CEO of the eight-year-old company, said Ondrejka resigned to "pursue new professional challenges" and said he and Ondrejka had strategic differences.
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Second Life has been criticized for technical problems - graphics that load painfully slowly on older computers, and bizarre glitches where avatars appear unintentionally naked....
Ondrejka has appeared in Second Life as the Flying Spaghetti Monster - [the god of the increasingly mainstream religion] ...Pastafarianism - in which the universe's creator resembles spaghetti and meatballs -
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If schools teach intelligent design - similar to creationism and contrary to evolution - they should also teach Pastafarianism and other beliefs, insist adherents, including many scientists and technologists.
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Blessed be the macaroni.
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