---Quote (Originally by Ann Otoole)--- crippled homestead code ---End Quote--- [citation required] The only difference there has ever been...

---Quote (Originally by Coby Foden)--- Eh, what? :shrug: ---End Quote--- Failed pop culture reference. Nevermind.

---Quote (Originally by DoctorZen)--- I'm not disagreeing with you that a lot of folks will ditch store fronts completely with this move. Hell,...

Can't rez them all!

when i finished with my present top sekrit project.. i think i shall have a majhong tournament.. only problem.. this one is japan rules.. which...

I wonder how many Zobel's there are. I've never seen one. EDIT: Search has counted 15 other Zobel's. Only 6 have decent profile info filled out....

I've seen exactly one other Wizenheim in my almost 3 years in SL. I picked it as the best option after a dozen or so refreshes (oh, if only I'd known...

AnnMarie Otoole doesn't care about what people think of her trashing mainland up. She is protected by LL. I recall her mentioning she is a family...

Here I am setting on the deck at my home in Paradisio. Attachment 27378 (http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/attachments/general-sl-discussion/27378-sl-candid-pictures-snapshot_002.jpg)

I'm always a little tardy for the color challenge. I blame laziness. I am a lazy, lazy bird. Image: http://snapz.me/i/525359.jpg Outfit...

---Quote (Originally by Eclectic Wingtips)--- the problem is that people who are against changing their shape see the use of alphas at all as...

A couple of new UI elements, floater_pathfinding and floater_pathfinding_linksets appear to be about to be added to the official Viewer. Together...

---Quote (Originally by Imnotgoing Sideways)--- Poll time! I'm bloody curious. (^_^) ---End Quote--- My answers: -Some family knows -No...

Daz (http://www.Daz3D.com/) is offering these three programs for free, but only for the month of February. The three programs together are a $800...

Holy.. Um.. I'm registered to some particularly snarky and questionable sites via my SL name. Including that despairingly.com place o.0. More for the...

[UPDATED 11:34PM PST, 03 February 2012] - Our Live Chat and Case submission systems will undergo planned maintenance at a new time on Saturday February 04, from 07:00 PM PST to 9PM PST. Live Chat and Case submission systems may be intermittently unavailable or slow during this period. [POSTED 3:25PM PST, 03 February [...]

Join us for our Happy Hunting! broadcast on Friday, 3rd February 2012 at 3pm PST/SLT in the Designing Worlds studio on Garden of Dreams. Note that this is a new location – we’ve moved to the main Garden of Dreams sim now! Our guest in the studio will be Xandra Bressig of Sour Pickles Hunts [...]

[RESOLVED 3:14PM PST, 3 February 2012] The Live Chat and Case submission systems are now operating properly. [POSTED 2:45PM PST, 3 February 2012] Our Live Chat and Case Submission systems are currently unavailable. Phone support is still available at this time, and we are working to restore the other systems. Please watch this blog for [...]

When I noted that Linden Lab's private estate revenue in SL has fallen to 2009 levels, famed steampunk land baron Desmond “the Guvnah” Shang stopped by to offer his thoughts in Comments: "Cutting back on land mass is actually a...

Iris Ophelia's ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion Women have been dyeing their hair for a very long time, and for almost all of that time it was key to maintain the illusion that it was your natural...

The SL Bloggers group is back in business, thanks to Tymmerie Thorne, who has all the details here, including an in-world hang-out, and a group Twitter account. "We take 'em all," says Ms. Thorne, "news bloggers, fashion bloggers, badly dressed...

Back when Apple unveiled the iPhone 4s' Siri, I wondered if she'd be the first AI we'd fall in love with, so it's too surprising that the Times just noted Siri & Me "a new work of fiction by David...

mvfapp.com is a fun, possibly ego-stroking Twitter widget that shows you your most valuable Twitter follower, i.e. the follower who in turn has the most Twitter followers. Mine (I'm @SLHamlet on Twitter) include the official SL Twitter account, legendary SF...

Don’t miss Treet.TV’s The First Question today, Friday 3rd February at 4.30pm SLT. It will be broadcasting live from The Studiodrome with three amazing guests – StupidFunWill, Widget Whiteberry and Alem Theas StupidFunWill is the avatar of Will Wright, creator of The Sims who recently joined the board of Linden Lab. Widget Whiteberry is Co-Producer [...]

Because, if you are, this is what you need to look for: START LOCATION The Prim Perfect Headquarters: http://slurl.com/secondlife/San%20Jose%20East1/158/142/23 You’ll find information at the start location – look for the posters on the pillars by the entrance!  And you’ll find more details – hints and clues – and pictures of the awesome loot on offer [...]

Web 4.0 is going to be the next major extension of the Internet.  To date we have moved to Web 3.0, first putting data in the web, then social contacts, and now locations.  Now the web is growing in its factual basis, able to ask Who, What, Where, and When.  But there is still the necessary imagination of the user to ask Why and What If or Why Not?

The next logical step for the web is to combine the imaginative powers of creativity and virtual reality with the real world datas of facts.  To not only know what is happening where and by whom, but to be able to transform these facts in to what every creative visualizations we might have access to.   To not only be immersive in a augmented reality, but to be able to translate that augmented reality in to a augmented virtual reality where the real world and the imagined world are as intimately connected as they are in our minds.



Rober1236 Jua the Cyber Trekker of Second Life

Kitely – an OpenSim-based grid that runs its regions in the Amazon cloud — has a unique system that gives educators [...]

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Rober1236 Jua the Cyber Trekker of Second Life

Iris Ophelia's ongoing take on etiquette & ethics in virtual spaces It should be no mystery what this week's Metaverse Manners theme is, so let's cut right to the chase... Is there a right/wrong way to call out an SL...

Now that Facebook has filed for IPO, we're starting to get a somewhat clearer picture of its virtual goods market, and as expected (as Wired reports), it's fricking huge: "Facebook users spent roughly $1.85 billion on virtual goods within the...

  “We’re on a Boat”

Ms. Munchflower Zaius just showed me this badassariffic Hellboy avatar she created in Second Life on a lark, a tribute to Guillermo de Toro's movie adaptation of the character. She was stirred to send it to me after I posted...

The Associated Press' Jason Straziuso has a great article about a great story: How the virtual community Reddit quickly rallied to raise $80,000 in donations to help a a Kenyan orphanage beset by violent thieves, one of whom hacked an...

After months of delays — months in which its users enjoyed free premium OpenSim hosting — Kitely begins charging today. [...]

Jane909 had always felt different from her sisters. Although biologically indistinguishable, the singular nature of her identity was as plain to her as the nose on her perfectly symmetrical face, Despite state-of-the-art genetics and intensive social engineering, a visceral sense of uniqueness blossomed through her eighteen years of life.

Today, she finally had enough.

Jane909 looked over the sea of identical faces and began her valedictorian speech. "I am more than just a Jane," she said. "And so are you."

The angry mob of clones pulled her from the podium and carried her to the recycling vat.

Berkeley philosophy professor Alva Noe has a pretty fascinating take on the Uncanny Valley as caused by 3D computer-generated movies like The Polar Express and Tintin (which I talked about recently). If understand him right, he's arguing that the feeling...

Iris Ophelia's ongoing review of virtual world and MMO fashion coldLogic [Teleport to ColdLogic in ZYRRA] is a brand new all-mesh venture from Janie Marlowe, Zyrra Falcone, and Damien Fate that has a lot of fashionistas in a flutter. If...

There once was a friendly and beautiful girl named Aretha Millsaps, whose only flaw was that she didn't exist. Also, that she only existed to promote a commercial website link on her Facebook profile, but then you probably guessed that...

Round 3 is starting. The color palette is love ! Aura – Briar skin – Cupid and Valentine style – 600L per tone Illusory – Amour Mini Skirt – All 3 colors : 200L Truth – Item not out at the moment. Should be out in two days or so. Kyoot – Little Ache Lingerie [...]

[RESOLVED 11:40AM PST, 01 February 2012] Today’s rolling restarts are complete. [Updated 6:48am PST, 01 February 2012] We will beginning today’s rolling restarts shortly. [POSTED 2:23PM PST, 31 January 2012] We will be performing rolling restarts on the Magnum, BlueSteel, and LeTigre RC server channels tomorrow morning at 7:00am PST, February 1, 2012. Please refrain from rezzing [...]

Speaking of indie games, there's a new kind of SL roleplaying game from Grendel's Children, longtime and widely admired manufacturer of fantastic bestiary avatars in Second Life: LifeCycle Rats, which as the name suggests, turns your avatar into a rodent,...

This looks really great: Indie Game: The Movie, a documentary on the sweat and tears poured into producing low budget indie games which aspire to greatness: Indie Game: The Movie Official Trailer from IndieGame: The Movie on Vimeo. It just...

The Hunt includes 45 Stores (you can see them all below) that have created some awesome prizes for you to find across the grid. It starts at the Prim Perfect Headquarters in Costa Rica (where you will find not only the first gift but also Hunt Information), and it finishes at the Designing Worlds Studio [...]

Though there is not question that Second Life is having some difficult times, its not fair to say its empty yet.  Certainly you don't see the same level of mass crowds as in 2007 as thousands of ordinary people came in to see the future, but you still can see a good sized crowd at certain quality events.

After a month long absence from social media, Linden CEO Rod Humble posted an update on his SL profile, updating the company's plans for returning last names to SL avatars, along with other features to names, such as titles: Speaking...

Viddy this SL fashion tribute to Clockwork Orange, which was created by Nestag Itano, who has a well-named male SL fashion blog called Untouchable Life. It's from a series of movie-themed fashion spreads, which also includes this equally great Rorschach...

[RESOLVED 10:24AM PST, 31 January 2012] Today’s rolling restarts are complete. [Updated 5:04am PST, 31 January 2012] We will be beginning today’s rolling restarts on the main Second Life server channel shorty. [Posted 5:07pm PST, 30 January 2012] Rolling restarts for regions on the main Second Life server channel will begin on Tuesday, January 31st at approximately [...]

I said to Kess awhile ago we needed to take a friends pic. One night we were all on and I tp’d her over.  Here comes Kess, bless her heart, she was all dressed and ready for my wedding (which is not until the 22nd). She wanted to be ready so that on, picture day, [...]

[Completed 5:51am PST, 31 January 2012] We have completed the inventory database maintenance for this morning. [Posted 05:08am PST, 31 January 2012] We are about to begin conducting inventory database maintenance that may cause some residents not being able to login and some residents already inworld may be logged out. It may also prevent inventory from [...]

I have a new post on Internet Evolution about the rise of Reddit in the age of Facebook and Twitter, which I'm pretty proud of. Why does Reddit, a content-sharing community with pseudonymous identities, keep rising in the face of...

Tyche Shepherd's latest indispensable Second Life economic analysis is up on SL Universe, and the news is not good: "Monthly private estate tier estimate is down below US $5 million for the first time since I began the monthly surveys...

I've been impressed as hell recently by Soror Nishi's laser-focused work on her RL sculpture project. Week after week she pursues her vision braving toxic fumes, molten bee's wax and the quest for a perfect egg sculpt.

Although I'm still plugging away on my own atomic world project, I've been a lot more prone to distraction. The dozens and dozens of action figure, toys and dolls laying around my "work" area keep whispering little ideas into my ear and stealing my attention. "It's okay," they say. "It will only take a few minutes."

Of course, a few minutes turns into a few hours. Oh well. It's the journey, right? Here's the latest little ADD gem, made with V.I.K.T.O.R., a fun new automated video editing program for the iPhone.

 

I have been finding it very difficult to complete two columns each week lately – a combination of a minor illness and a bit of burnout. I’ve decided to cut the column to once a week for a while so that I can maintain my enthusiasm. It’s not that the art is less unique or [...]

SL/OpenSim news: Tokyo University Developing Real Time, Open Source Kinect-to-Second Life Software Explore OpenSim & SL Regions on the Web & Convert Others for Web Use With Avatars Via the ArchTech Engine Google Reportedly Allows Second Life User to Keep...

Join us at 2pm SLT today, Monday 30th January, at our beautiful studio in Garden of Dreams2 for a very special show, as we celebrate our 150th Episode! We went looking in the archives for clips from some of our favourite shows – although we have so many favourites that it was really very hard [...]