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June 2, 2010

Virtual Worlds, Real Thefts: Real Police Search for Virtual Furniture

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This sort of news story pains my brain. The BBC reports that real police raided real homes looking for virtual furniture stolen on the online site Habbo Hotel. As near as I can tell, Habbo Hotel is sort of a cross between a virtual world game and a social networking site. The FAQs weren’t real […]

May 27, 2010

Crashing Ford’s VIRTTEX Advanced Driving Simulator, Sort of – Ford Tour

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As a musician, there have been many late-night drives home in where I should have pulled over and got an hour sleep. Drowsy at the wheel is not a good thing – Sometimes I wonder how I made it home. That’s what Ford tests – Stupid people like me who risk an accident just to […]