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  was Miles the coolest?

  Is the question about cool or playing? I love George Shearing (Lullaby is one of all time favourite tunes too) but he is not even remotely cool. Miles probably out cools most people without shading over into just plain weird like Ornette Coleman. Monk was pretty cool. Chet Baker too.  But if it is playing then there's just too far too many to start listing (though one should start listening)

  Posted 29 Mar 07 in cooljazz

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  Second Life vs WOW

  Excellent summary, Tim. The trouble with SL is that it is really rather a poor experience : it's slow, buggy, the manipulation interfaces are just awful, the scripting language is an abomination,  the place is just sleazy being filled with casinos, sex clubs and shops selling tarty clothes. (yes, there are nice places too, I know) All this puts people off and may help to disuade someone from developing something that is better  : it's a virtual world for goodness sake, why do I have to have real world limitations, I can fly in SL so why can't I build something that is bigger inside than it is outside? And why do most people make such dull (or at least predictable) avatars in SL?

  Posted 29 Mar 07 in Technology News

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  Early adopter download of the day - Nostalgia

  I could log in to Flickr but then it wouldn't do anything else when I closed the login window

  Posted 20 Mar 07 in Technology News

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  Joost and Internet TV

  I read it that they are closing applications for the Beta, but that invitations will still be available. (I don't have any, sob)

  The problem I have with Joost is that it won't run in our heavily firewalled environment - it uses UDP and that won't work from a machine with a private address on our net. (Second Life won't run either

  Posted 20 Mar 07 in Technology News