Poor Mojo's Newswire

“It’s like if you get a small cut on your hand, your body can heal itself. But if you have a large wound, your body needs help. You might need stitches. We’ve created a material with such tiny crack widths that it takes care of the healing by itself. Even if you overload it, the cracks stay small,” said Victor Li, the E. Benjamin Wylie Collegiate Professor of Civil Engineering and a professor of Materials Science and Engineering.

Infecting a child is 5 points, an elderly person is 15.

“I sort of like it, but I think it’s really warped,” said an 8-year-old who noticed the game on Sunday when it reached the Top 10 on his favorite free children’s game site, www.miniclip.com.

As he went along, Hillebrand counted the number of letters, numbers, punctuation marks and spaces on the page. Each blurb ran on for a line or two and nearly always clocked in under 160 characters.

That became Hillebrand's magic number -- and set the standard for one of today's most popular forms of digital communication: text messaging.

"This is perfectly sufficient," he recalled thinking during that epiphany of 1985, when he was 45 years old. "Perfectly sufficient."

Seeing as I'm now playing around in two virtual worlds, my first thought for a trivial project to do to get things going was some sort of bridge between the two, and so this is: this behavior lets you create an object in Metaplace, configure it with this behavior, and enter a location in Second Life (sim, X, Y and Z) as normal, and then using the object from within a Metaplace world will bring up slurl.com pointing at the targeted location so that you can one-click your way from there into SL.