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....
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 -
... [ and now for a totally appropriate non-sequitur. Hey, I'm quote mining here, it's hard...]
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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Ramen.
Posted by: Tophe | December 12, 2007 11:46 PM
Om Noodle Padme Hom (repeat ad nauseam)
Posted by: Ian | December 13, 2007 7:05 AM