We’ve heard of several instances where people’s online activities have gotten them into trouble, but can they also save you from prison?

Piers Fawkes presents some thoughts about the hype bubble around Augmented Reality.

William Stranger’s “Second Life” uses reclaimed wood from a local LA bowling alley to create a number of different works including a coffee table, a bench and a diptych.

Minsh is a unique site that visualizes Twitter users as fish in a 3-dimensional, underwater world. Schools of fish gather based on their tweets. The site is in Alpha now with the Alpha 2 version to be released on July 13, 2009.
Richard Banks explains:
The concept behind the virtual world is that the social behaviour of fish will represent what people are talking about online. In the world of Minsh, people writing about a given subject find themselves swimming in the same school. When a person updates his or her Twitter status, the fish swims away to join people with similar [...]

According to a Wired report, Sony have created a possible killer application for the PS3.

The so far lacklustre PS3 launch could be revitalised by a game that captures the notion of Second Life with the incredibly powerful graphics of the new console.

In his weekly Consumed column in the NY Times magazine, Rob Walker has provided a great back-to-basics guide to Second Life – for all you folk who just need a recap – with some insights into how brands (real world and Second Life) can benefit the residents.