Updated, 3:50pm: I just got word from the producers that this Drew Carey episode on Second Life has been taken down for a couple weeks "due to technical problems", so for now, the video link appears broken. Will let readers know when it's back up.
Recent dispatches from the outside world...
reason.tv - Videos > Second Life
Taking an unsurprisingly libertarian slant, comedian Drew Carey and his team with Reason TV (video channel for the laissez faire magazine of the same name) do a pretty good job presenting the world and its culture to the uninitiated, though probably not your parents or the socially conservative. Featuring interviews with Howard Rheingold, Maxim model Callie Cline, and Luskwood's Eltee Statosky. I appear for a few quotes to compare Second Life to Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State, and Utopia, and just as appropriate to the show, to water my giant marijuana plant. (And no, that's not my voice, the producers decided to dub someone reading an interview I sent them by e-mail.) Some nudity and language, the video's slightly unsafe for working viewing (unless you work for a libertarian magazine.)
Dammit, Hamlet!
Now you've gotten me thinking about Anarchy, State & Utopia, Ken Macleod's critique in The Star Fraction and the possible effects of OpenSim in encouraging isolated pico-states...
And right as I'm going offline for five days! Gaah! :D
Posted by: Sophrosyne Stenvaag | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 01:34 PM
Well I watched it. But then when I went to comment, or to watch again, I am getting 404 error on the Reason site, and it seems to be gone. It dones not show up in the list of 16 archive titles, either. I can find no mention of it.
Hmmm..... what's up with that? So much for libertarian. Hope it's just a bug.
Princess Ivory
Posted by: Princess Ivory | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 03:01 PM
Good catch, Princess, apparently I blogged the video before it was fully ready for broadcast. Sorry about that!
Posted by: Hamlet Au | Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 03:55 PM
But Hamlet, Drew's already been *in* Second Life! See?
This was from some time ago, but here's a picture ...
Posted by: Kate Amdahl | Friday, July 25, 2008 at 07:17 AM
darn i wish i would have seen it, i cant wait it was fun to shoot and do the voice over too. i hope it turned out well and can't wait!!!
i got to slow dance with drew on my shoot :) did you?? lol...
hahahah just joking!
Posted by: callie cline | Saturday, August 02, 2008 at 04:22 AM