Pratchett: "Death and What Comes Next"

I ran across this recently, so I'm sharing:

http://www.lspace.org/books/dawcn/dawcn-english.html

When Death met the philosopher, the philosopher said, rather excitedly: "At this point, you realise, I'm both dead and not dead."

There was a sigh from Death. Oh dear, one of those, he thought. This is going to be about quantum again.

Superstruct: futurism MMO

http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/09/24/0132222.shtml

Hmm. Will have to check this out later.

NYT article on social networking and culture

Brave New World of Digital Intimacy

Thought-provoking, if nothing else.