Raph Koster and I will be having a chat, moderated by my former Linden coworker Robin Harper, today in Metaplace. We just crossed paths at State of Play in NYC and we’re looking forward to chatting about the present and future of virtual worlds and the web. In related, and cool news, Metaplace just announced that their Flash client can be embedded, so you can join the discussion this afternoon through the client below.

Sorry to be away for so long. Work and life have both been rather busy of late. For your patience, you are rewarded with John Hodgman at the Correspondent’s dinner:

I know, I need to do a Google Wave post, but for now, enjoy the World of the Future!

Well, blind to science at least. Texas’ senate is currently blocking Don McLeroy - endorsed by governor Rick Perry - from resuming his role as the Texas State Board of Education Chairman. Why, you ask? Really, Texas, you want someone running your board of education who wants to teach what is so clearly wrong? Of course, maybe he’s just afraid of getting sued. The United States really needs another sputnik.

Microsoft’s Visual Earth has been doing this for a while, but these new movies from C3 are quite pretty. Definite style points for all the matrix-camera action, too. Very impressive for a straight imagery-to-model conversion. What would be really cool would be to see their engine running in Unity3D or another web platform.