2008 July 10 « Visible Procrastinations

Google’s answer to Second Life comes in the form of Lively.

.. If you enter a Lively room embedded on your favorite blog or website, you can immediately get a sense of the room creator’s interests, just by looking at the furniture and environment they chose. You can also express your own personality by customizing your avatar’s look, showing people who you are without having to say a word. Of course, you can chat with each other, and you can also interact through animated actions. In our user research, we’ve been amazed at how much more poignant it is to receive an animated hug than seeing the text “[[hug]]”. … [1]

To use Lively, you need a Google Account.
Lively requires Windows Vista/XP with Internet Explorer or Firefox
You may not use the Services if you are under the age of 13.
The Software which you use may automatically download and install updates from time to time from Google.

[1] Be who you want on the web pages you visit (2008-Jul-08.) [Official Google Blog]
[2] Google’s second life (2008-Jul-09.) [The Age]
[3] Google Lively Review (2008-Jul-10) [josecgomez.com]

Tonight is Stage 6 (Aigurande to Super-Besse) 195.5 km
Moving from the plains and on to the Massif Central, we should see the climbers start to stretch their legs.

Climbs:
Cat 4 – at:70.0km – Côte de L’Armelle – h:602m
Cat 4 – at:89.0km – Côte de Crocq – h:740m
Cat 2 – at:158.0km – Col de la Croix-Morand – h:1401m
Cat 2 – at:195.5km – Super-Besse (ski resort) – h:1289m

via UBI Labs tracker

Stage Details:

stage 6 – Aigurande > Super-Besse 195.5 km [www.letour.fr]
Stage 6 – Aigurande > Super-Besse Sancy [SBS]
Aigurande – Super Besse, 195.5km [CyclingNews]
Stage 6 • AIGURANDE > SUPER-BESSE • 195,5 km [EuroSport]
Stage 6 preview: Aigurande → Super-Besse, 195k (hilly) [SteepHill]
Route Tour de France 08, Étape 06: Aigurande – Super-Besse [bikemap.net]

Live:
Live Race Data [Polar]
Live Telemetry [SRM]
Current local time in Paris (World Clock)

Live Audio|AudioPlayer [EuroSport]
Tour de France – Live Tracker [UBI Labs]
stage 6 – Aigurande > Super-Besse 195.5 km live [www.letour.fr]
Aigurande – Super Besse, 195.5km Complete live report [CyclingNews]
Aigurande – Super-Besse “live match” [Eurosport Yahoo!]
TdFblog (Frank Steele’s) [Twitter]
Boulder Report Live Blog [bicycling.com]
SBS: Tour de France 2008 Forum [SBS]

Results:

17:23 – Ricco Racing On To Stage Win…
Ricco has outsprinted Valverde to win his first stage of the Tour de France.
17:22 – Kirchen Coming Forward
There is also the blue of the Columbia team at the front of the pack now. It’s going to be an elite sprint. Take your pick… Sastre is also there.
17:21 – 1km To Go
There are two Caisse d’Epargne riders ahead of Ricco and Evans at the front of the stage. Who are you going to back: Valverde? Ricco? Evans?
– [www.letour.fr]

Le parcours 2008 : découvrez l’étape 6
(Tour de France YouTube Channel)

Stage 6 results:
1 Riccardo Riccò (Saunier Duval)
2 Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (Caisse d’Epargne)
3 Cadel Evans (Silence – Lotto)
4 Frank Schleck (Team CSC – Saxo Bank)
5 Kim Kirchen (Team Columbia)
6 Moises Dueñas Nevado (Barloworld)
7 Roman Kreuziger (Liquigas)
8 Carlos Sastre Candil (Team CSC – Saxo Bank)
9 Denis Menchov (Rabobank)
10 Leonardo Piepoli (Saunier Duval – Scott)

Stefan Schumacher (Gerolsteiner) crashed with 300m to go in the sprint to finish line, but unfortunately for his hope to keep the yellow jersey the three kilometre rule does not cover mountain finishes and today was officially a mountain finish.

Cadel Evans (Silence – Lotto) showed signs of firing up today, after puncturing and being back in the cars he pushed a motorcycle gendarme out of the way when his path was blocked on the ride back to the peleton. There were no dramas as his team had dropped back to wait and covered his return.