Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Jihad and Second Life

I've been wanting to share this article with you since our trip to the UK last week. In the 5 August 2007 issue of the Sunday Times was this article (link below) concerning militant Islamic jihadists using Second Life for various purposes.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article2199193.ece

Interesting...but then would I ever have guessed that the Internet would become such a major source for pornography? Well, I should have guessed, I suppose, since the Internet and the Web are open to access from nearly everyone. Anyway, it's an interesting article. I guess our jihadists are just thinking innovatively.

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

And off she goes!

Whew! It's been a while since I've touched base here, and so much has happened, such as the wedding of Maya and Patrick, but more on that later. Meanwhile, Alice has started medical school at Temple University School of Medicine. In fact, she started her gross anatomy class on this past Monday. I asked her what she'd be cutting up, and she said a back and an upper arm - still attached to a person, of course. Fascinating.

So we'll have more on all this later.