Archive for April 1st, 2008

Long live OpenSim. Down with Second Life!

I have tried and failed to order Leeds Met’s third Second Life island today. Everything was going fine, until Linden Lab’s e-commerce system, Netsuite, refused to authorise payment because the credit card details were out of date. …

Beware of Uncontrolled Kiosks

-There are only 2 ways to donate to Relay For Life of Second Life, either through a verifiable kiosk or vendor (all proceeds are donated to the American Cancer Society). By law, the American Cancer Society CANNOT split donations without …

Hillary Clinton or ……. for President?

Though off-topic, this is certainly timely. I rarely comment on politics, and so my comment here is short. Regardless of who I may favor as nominee for President, and no, it won’t ever be Phil Rosedale, I’m astonished, in shock and awe …

Making money and linden dollars away from the PC

This way, people all over the world who are into Second Life can find free lindens here at my blog. I maybe posting non-free linden related posts from time to time but it’s like 80% of the posts here is about Second Life and Free …

Mixing my media.

I am thankful for the Pentel Aquash, which I carry together with a pan of gouache. I know I can’t paint worth flapdoodle but it is interesting to observe how fountain pen ink mixes with other media. On the Fountain Pen Network, …

What LL did next…

Linden Lab is a private company, so they can do with Second Life what they wish. We ‘residents’ have the choice of being here or not. At the moment, there is no viable alternative to SL as a comprehensive virtual world. …

Avatar Puppeteering

Avatar Puppeteering is an interesting aspect of Second Life, and one that has great potential to bring “real life” animations in the virtual world. Think, for example, of a theatrical scene, or a shop, or whatever. Look at this site, …

Vendor draw winner Desiree's

Being facinated with Machinima as well, Shamu has also partnered with Rusty Miles and Tocho Cortes to help expand Second Life Media Source ( www.slmediasource.com ). SLMS gives the user a portal into the creativity and complexity that …

Outer Hebrides recreated in Second Life. Sort of.

For a while I’ve been thinking of re-creating the Island of Berneray in Second Life. Hills, terrain, key buildings, a few croft houses, beaches, that sort of thing. It would be interesting to see if the causeway could be re-created in …

Controlling second life with just a thought

A very cool video on controlling the Second Life video game with just a thought!/P. Read More…

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