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Tomorrow, Sept. 28th, 2007, I will be on a panel about Entrepreneurs and Computer Gaming at the Business of Gaming on campus at USC. If you’re an Entropian and you’d like to share your entropia-neurial story with me, I’d love to hear it. This won’t be the last time it is relevant, believe me! I am excited to be on this particular panel as we at Entropia have something unique to share. Not only can I talk about being an entrepreneur in the computer games space. I can talk about partnering with Entropia Universe and creating your own planet with our platform, which includes CryEngine now, like CRD/China is doing. I can also talk about being an Entrepreneur inside Entropia Universe. From picking up dung, to buying a banking license. I think that’s fascinating and very cool. I’ll be posting from there as long as the Internet connection works!

Lately I have been having moments of wondering what I am doing in LA. Then, a few mornings ago, I was on my way to the office and Morning Becomes Eclectic came on the radio. Nic played some great song or another, and I realized one of the reasons I am here. I love KCRW. And, Happy Birthday to Morning Becomes Eclectic! We love you! And, I really love Nocturna. Check out Raul Campos and the excellent music he plays. Wanna listen right now? LISTEN!

And, it reminds me of Goldstar Events, too. Another draw of living in the big city. Gratitude!

Chi Tai Robert Lai, Chief Scientist with the Beijing China Recreation District will present details on this new infrastructure on October 11, 2007 at the upcoming Virtual Worlds Conference and Expo in San Jose, CA. “This is a new national approach,” Lai said regarding presentation. “We would like to invite all of companies interested in virtual worlds in China to join this infrastructure.” In the presentation, CRD will explain the policy, how they are building a national virtual infrastructure, how to integrate industries/enterprises by virtual+real world infrastructure, status of the project and existing plan and partners. I will be on a panel at this event, as well. I am excited to hear what Mr. Lai has to say. For more visit the Virtual Worlds blog.

Entropia is in the Guinness Book of World Records again! The virtual asteroid you’ve heard so much about finally gets its due! For the full release go here. And, I recommend reading the boilerplate about the Guinness Book of World Records. Started by Sir Hugh Beaver in 1951 when grousing about plover…

GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN–(Marketwire - September 18, 2007) - Entropia Universe, the leading virtual worlds platform for interactive entertainment, community building and e-commerce using a real cash economy, boasts the Most Valuable Virtual Items and Real Estate of all the virtual worlds. The new 2008 Guinness World Records book features Club NEVERDIE, an asteroid space resort bought for $100,000 USD by famous gamer Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs as “The Most Expensive Virtual Object.” The asteroid space resort which boasts a nightclub, shopping mall, 1000 apartment complexes, commercial space ship docking, mega sports stadium, and hunting and mining biodomes is the highest grossing privately owned virtual event venue online, estimated to be worth in excess of $1 Million USD if ever placed back on the market.

“The inclusion of the space resort and Entropia Universe in the Guinness World Records book confirms the viability of our real cash economy,” says Marco Behrmann, Chief Information Officer at MindArk PE AB, the development company behind Entropia Universe. “Participants realized early on the enormous potential in Entropia Universe for real commerce. In fact, the space resort had recouped its initial acquisition cost and was operating at a profit after only 8 months, and remains one of the primary event locations in the Entropia Universe.”

And, this soon after Goldstar Events sells our millionth ticket!  Good times! And, cryptically, it looks like Goodtimes is back on Facebook! If you have any idea what I am talking about find me on Facebook!

TheEntropians.com - Entropian Rockstar

Shot entirely in Entropia Universe. Reminds me of Hollywood and Games discussions about films being shot within game engines, like CryTech. Very cool.

One of the nation’s first vegetated wildlife overpasses, or wildlife bridge, is being proposed on I-70, just west of Vail Pass.

You can read more about it at Restore the Rockies.and at Audubon. I have long mourned the amount of animals that die on the road every day/night, day in and day out. With habitat being lost at a ferocious rate, and with what’s left becoming more and more fragmented all the time, I have long wished for animal overpasses that could reduce the carnage and bolster animal populations. The Interstates are virtually uncrossable for bigger animals, and truly uncrossable for smaller, slower animals. Roads create boundaries past which animals cannot migrate, cannot pursue food, and which lower their chances of finding suitable breeding partners. I hope this overpass and the related fencing system to encourage it’s use, will be the first of many, many more.

The other upside, I should point out, is that it would reduce human deaths and property damage, as well.  More at: http://www.safepassagecoalition.org/news/vail_pass.htm