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November 24, 2004

eye toy ad @12:43 AM

here's a link to an ad for the EyeToy over in the European theater.

The ad follows a bus driving through a city at night, the camera catching gimpses through the windows of people doing strange things in their dwellings, like playing air guitar, dancing, etc. It goes through a sequence of these, then reveals that these people have all been playing various games with the EyeToy.

So, the ad is pretty clever, but for me it brings to light one of the most compelling aspects of the idea of this virtual space, be it persistent, mobile, location-based, console-based, etc., where your physical movement or action determines an outcome in the virtual space. I just love the idea of people doing strange things in the real world, things that they would never do if they weren't doing this auxillary thing in the virtual space.

damn you perry for making me get Ween's 'the mollusk...' So infectious.

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woo this will be my first comment that works (if it does)

I would love to talk to you about my 534 piece - this is in part what inspired me to do it. bounce me an email when you get the chance, maybe we can chat over the weekend.

Posted by: kellee at November 24, 2004 11:24 AM

since Justin has failed so far, how did you configure your blog to add the registration prompt? I went into my blog preferences and comment configuration and changed some things, but nothing seemed to change.

Posted by: brad at November 24, 2004 11:35 AM

"the mollusk" rules.

Posted by: brad at November 24, 2004 11:38 AM

so, when I login to your blog to commment, it sends me an error. and when I do comment, it crashes firefox.

it looks like persons with default templates had typekey sign in prompts added automatically to their blogs. this unfortunately didn't occur on mine, for whatever reason.

Posted by: brad at November 24, 2004 11:43 AM

yeah, my blog is a cluster-fuck right now -- I can't believe anyone can actually comment. I did these steps:

included my url in my typekey prefs

added my typekey key to my blog prefs (weblog config, prefs)

went into the comment code for the default templates for 3.1 and pasted the bits I needed for typekey into my templates.

and clearly, it still doesn't work that well.

I'm about ready to completely rebuild my site with a newer template initially, then paste back some of my styles...

such a pain in the ass.

Posted by: will at November 24, 2004 12:30 PM

kellee -

sure, let's talk some time -- shoot me an email or whatever...

Posted by: will at November 24, 2004 12:31 PM