Em.'s In & Outs

I will be working on an independent research contract for the beginning of the summer, looking into developing a live CD for teaching the use of open-source software to non-for-profit assocations for their media project.

I was reading the Economist Survey last week, which happened to be on New Media (April 22nd, Vol.379, Iss. 8474). The Survey was telling about an network named Second Life, whose members literally create their online avatar and start socializing, working, buying ventures and living in this frontier environment. People actually pay big money to buy pieces of land so they can create their virtual empire.


That day, I was thinking about how a Chadian friend was telling me about superstitions in his country, about how people gathered around a dead rebel to steal part of his clothing so that it would protect them against fire arms. And I was thinking that here in Canada we're not much better; how far can people really go when they want to ''start all over again''?