This just in …<\/p>\n
\nVirtual world Second Life’s chief technology officer … has resigned. Cory Ondrejka… quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year.<\/p>\n
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Philip Rosedale, CEO of the eight-year-old company, said Ondrejka resigned to “pursue new professional challenges” and said he and Ondrejka had strategic differences.<\/p>\n
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Second Life has been criticized for technical problems – graphics that load painfully slowly on older computers, and bizarre glitches where avatars appear unintentionally naked….<\/p>\n
Ondrejka has appeared in Second Life as the Flying Spaghetti Monster – [the god of the increasingly mainstream religion] …Pastafarianism – in which the universe’s creator resembles spaghetti and meatballs –<\/p>\n
… [ and now for a totally appropriate non-sequitur. Hey, I’m quote mining here, it’s hard…]<\/p>\n
If schools teach intelligent design – similar to creationism and contrary to evolution – they should also teach Pastafarianism and other beliefs, insist adherents, including many scientists and technologists.<\/p>\n
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This just in … Virtual world Second Life’s chief technology officer … has resigned. Cory Ondrejka… quit Tuesday and will depart at the end of the year. … Philip Rosedale, CEO of the eight-year-old company, said Ondrejka resigned to “pursue new professional challenges” and said he and Ondrejka had strategic differences. … Second Life has … Continue reading Influential Flying Spaghetti Monster Disciple Resigns from Second Life CTO Position<\/span>