Twitter vs. LambdaMoo
I was watching the general tweeting going on from those I follow on Twitter and have started noticing a lot of “goodnight everyone” kinds of tweets. That along with the @reply made me realise that Twitter is really just a giant MOO, just without the rooms.
Or is it really without the rooms? I think that the ‘rooms’ that people used to make in places like Lambda MOO are now personal blogs. When you ‘look’ at a person in Twitter, you go to their Twitter page and then usually onto their blog, much like you used to see a description of them in a MOO and then maybe visit their room/space.
Twitter is a bit more public and gives you the ability to follow people, but it’s amusing to see that people are still the most interesting content online just as it was in the earliest days of the internet.
Chatroom, forum, MOO; Twitter has bits and pieces of all three.
Lives
Patricia Travers, a violin prodigy, died in February, age 82. Between ages 10 and 23 she performed extensively. After a 1951 performance of the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Boson Symphony, she disappeared by hiding in plain sight, by living with her parents in Clifton, NJ. She seldom spoke of her career. Sudden disappearances are actually quite typical of prodigies. According to Ellen Winer of Boston College, “What it takes to become a prodigy is very different from what it takes to become a major creative adult”.
Henri Salmide died, age 90. Salmide was a German naval officer ordered to stockpile explosives to destroy the port facilities of Bordeaux in 1944. Instead, he followed his “Christian conscience”, blowing up the storage bunker instead and killing 50 German personnel but saving the port from great devastation. He hid out for the rest of the war with a Resistance family and became a naturalized French citizen after the war. He was given the Légion d’Honneur by the French government only in 1994.
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Moonbow
Mars rising over Haleakala Crater Moonbow. via. According to Wikipedia:
A moonbow (also known as a lunar rainbow, lunar bow or white rainbow) is a rainbow produced by light reflected off the surface of the moon rather than from direct sunlight. Moonbows are relatively faint, due to the smaller amount of light reflected from the surface of the Moon. They are always in the opposite part of the sky from the moon.
