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This is cool. You can visit »a small flipbook museum« in the virtual world of Second Life. There’s not all that much to do there, and lag prevents some of the exhibits from working the way they should, but it’s a nice tribute to an art form that you’ll never be able to keep from picking up. The flipbook pinwheels outside (shown above) are especially neat. Yes, it’s basically a promotional build for Flippies, which will build you a custom flipbook, but how cool is that idea? Send along a series of shots of your av being collared and you’re golden. Anyway, how can you blame someone like Jeffrey Kay, Flippies’ president, when he calls flipbooks “one of the earliest forms of interactive multimedia on record.” Totally! (more…)

Entropia Universe continues to baffle. The massively multiplayer online game turned virtual world now claims half a million users, according to a recent press release. And there are still PR flaks pushing the exploits of Jon “Neverdie” Jacobs, an Entropia member who reportedly purchased a virtual space report for the whopping sum of $100,000. What the flaks don’t tell you is that Jacobs was (is?) a paid Entropia spokesperson, making the purchase more or less meaningless. (more…)