From their summary : “Swedish programming virtuoso Magnus Zeisig as just published an accurate 3D map of Sweden in Second Life that can be scripted to show all kinds of data and run all sorts of animations. You can visit it in Second …

“Acclaimed SL machinima creator Lainy Voom and I are working on a top secret machinima project, and we’re looking for Second Life Residents who’ve created avatars that resemble classic videogame characters, to star in it. …

Second Life may have started out as a playground for techies, but it has become a well-known virtual world where people play, do business and learn. As a result, more organizations are making the transition to virtual and ultimately …

Back at home from surgery yesterday! Time to catch up on the pending work, but I’ll do it slowly.

The status page we use to report service disruptions in progress is suffering a temporary misconfiguration. We expect to have it resolved shortly.

I don’t think the tools are directly harmful, but some of them apparently generate very bloated and inefficient code. I’m not sure how valuable they would be for learning to script, just because there’s so much extraneous information it …

Found Diva and Kat’s Photo-Me booth on Edloe. Some nice poses on this. posted by Gomem Desoto on Edloe using a blogHUD blogHUD map and teleport permalink.

Amazing, really. I kept thinking about how this would work in a classroom to either teach History or Literature where multiple avatars act out scenes from a story or novel or historical event the students were reading (all moved and …

Well. Calubious, I’m with Enderby, at least to the extent of the ‘can’t rez’ stuff. My first visit to Bay City was partly a disappointment due to the inability to actually use the roads. I never found a place to rez a car. …

The College of Arts and Sciences now has an island in the virtual world, Second Life. Contact Dr. Carmen Burkhalter (SL Avatar: Carmen Elephas) or Dr. Julia Hartman (SL avatar: Jayhart Woodget) for access to the island, …