It's certainly easier to pretend to make art or to speak the truth than to actually do either.

--NPR, Are we not gamers?

Although my computer more than meets the requirements for secondlife, it's very jerky. Graphics card, maybe?

PopCo by Scarlett Thomas (FICTION):A friend recommended this to me and I found this a very fun read. Alice Butler is a whiz at cryptography, crosswords, and also works for one of the world's leading toy manufacturers, PopCo, designing 'kid's spyware'. Having been selected for a special retreat which is actually to develop a new toy/marketing scheme for teenage girls, she quickly discovers that things are not always what they seem (to use a clichè).

myspace and other online social networking things are kind of interesting, ya know? Although blogs/journals have an aspect of social networking, especially with the use of feeds, comments, and blogrolling/links tools, social networking online really started to take off with six degrees.

Well, out of these, I didn't really like any of them. ;) Two novels about literature, two thrillers/mysteries.Let's start with The Rule of Four.The Rule of Four: Ian Caldwell, Dustin Thomason (FICTION):Lurching novel (literary thriller) about a renaissance era book which is supposedly impossible to deciper and filled with clues. Kind of like a renaissance Finnegans Wake? I'm not sure as I don't know alot about renaissance lit (my speciality was gothic/romantic). Touted as a thinking person's The DaVinci Code. I really wanted to like this but I barely finished it.

I finally do have some nonfiction coming up on my reading list... and you can see that I've been doing ALOT of reading...Angels & Demons by Dan Brown I enjoyed this one much better than the DaVinci Code, although reading these two so closely together I did see a formula. Here is the formula for those who might wonder: Famous symbologist/professor Robert Langdon receives a phone call from some large and very important institution/organization about a mysterious death.