the world is your acorn

** SUNDAY MAY 29TH MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND **
HONEY DANCE PARTY

Axis, 15 Landsdowne St, Boston 10pm – 2am
DJ Susan Esthera spinning dance, pop, hip hop
Enter at Axis and at 12.30 am the inside doors will open so you can enjoy Avalon Nightclub as well (with DJ Escape).
19+, $10 cover, $15 after 12.30pm **
** ONLY $5 on the Dyke Night Guest list before MIDNIGHT. Send name and the number in your party BEFORE SUNDAY to dykenight@hotmail.com **

via queer day:
There’s an article out about a queer junior at Yale who is advocating gender fluidity more than his tranny-ness. After the one-in-four Wall Street Journal article in 1987 (anyone have the real article?) and the Rolling Stone article in 2001 (again, anyone have a link?), Americans will think that Yale is more about alternative lifestyles than prestigious academia and elitism. Don’t worry though, there is a group out there whose mission it is to reclaim the ivy league for Jesus Christ.

The NYTimes quotes Matt Bennett, who is the founder of the Christian Union (the evangelical Ivy League group):

“What is happening now is good,” Mr. Bennett said, “but it is like a finger in the dike of keeping back the flood of immorality.”

hehe.

The New Radical [Hartford Courant]
On a Christian Mission to the Top [New York Times]

Kraft is not backing down to the religious right, who has been making threats in regards to the company’s support of homos diversity. I will no longer be ashamed to admit that I am grown and eat Easy Mac regularly. You have to admit, it is a refreshing change after all that Microsoft hooey.

We really REALLY [heart] Kraft! [americablog]

Four state senators and a few others were arrested this morning by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. They are accused of taking bribes to sponsor and push a bill in a sting operation set up by the FBI.

Seven arrested in statehouse bribery sting [tennessean.com]

Someone mentioned this virtual community called Second Life on Boing Boing, and I thought I would check it out. It seems very much like a graphical MUD (multi-user dungeon or dimension). I don’t know much about MUD’s, but I did a project on an educational MUD (actually it was a MOO, object-oriented) called MOOSE Crossing in the fall, and I think the educational potential for these things is really interesting.

Basically, people can be a character of their own invention in these spaces. With a little programming know-how they can (re)invent themselves, the spaces around themselves, and objects. They can also meet other people, build objects and spaces with other people, and interact in different ways. Sure, there is a safety issue, and an accessibility issue. But we are talking about a virtual, literal constructivist space here. Some kids may not get into it. But how many kids “get into” school? There’s more to be said, but I’ll get into it later on my edblog.

Here is an interesting article on how it’s already being used:
Second Life Teaches Life Lessons [Wired]