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[But only because “How Much For That GuruBall In Your AlienPants?” didn’t fit on one line.] Reader Tom Gordon of AlienPants writes in reference to a recent 3pointD post on some Amazon.com employees who are trying to connect their service to the virtual world of Second Life. He makes an interesting point about pricing goods and services in SL. His thoughts after the jump: (more…)

Via Virtual Earth links to show|time|maps, a really nice movie listing mashup that uses Microsoft’s Virtual Earth to produce a map of movies showing in your area. You can’t see this in the screenshot, but what’s nice about this little app is that when you mouse over a movie title, the squares where it’s next showing light up on the map with the cinema name beside them, and the showtimes show up in the window on the bottom left. (There are other navigation options as well.) I like how this mashup is so closely tied to time. Would be great on a portable device. At least, a portable device in Los Angeles or Austin TX, which are the only cities on the app at the moment.