December 2009
111 posts
November 2009
136 posts
Second Life "Ultimate" Holiday Gift Exchange?
Someone named Catero Revolution is proposing a grid-wide “Holiday Gift Exchange” in Second Life. However, this makes me kind of wonder what his (or her) motives really are as I tend to be the skeptical sort.
I mean, the first thing that raises a flag for me is how Catero hides their profile and we all know how I feel about people doing that. But further-more, Catero’s...
Linden Lab's Memorial Park: Visually →
Hades’ Strumpet, Captain’s Log: November the 26th, Anno Domini Nostri Iesu 1709 2009 - Ari Blackthorne, Master and commanding. It is early morn in a small port at the northern coast in the vicinity…
Watch“Fortunately for them, their lame attempt at a viral video becomes totally awesome at around the 2:10 mark. That’s when a young lady compelled to join the employees in their public shaming decides, mid-turn, to steal some stuff off a table. Hopefully whatever she took was valuable enough to make up for the blow her dignity received by doing a line dance in a Microsoft video.”
“A failed anti-depression drug may end the elusive search for the female version...”
– - Asylum.com
Second Life Selling Tip 08 of 15: Reverse... →
Remember when you first came into SL what Gods and Goddess celebrities creators were to you? “ZOMG That creator spoke to me!!11ONE!” Remember how special that was? Believe it or not, if you create…
“One solution could be to save regions into an archive and only bring them up...”
– Hypergrid Business
“2. It’s OK to completely change your physical appearance and way of life for the...”
– Top 10 Bad Messages From Good Movies
Be Thankful? Don't Laugh, I'm Serious. →
Tomorrow is the traditional day of “thanks” in the United States, and possibly other countries. Per the “wikipedia”: Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks…
It's Official: Rezzable Is A *Bottom-feeder* →
Sure, big to-do when Rezzable announced they were leaving the Second Life grid for their own private corner of paradise. Hip-hoorah and big whoop. I posted my thoughts on the subject and also posted…
“the government put Welch away for more than two years, making him the first...”
– Asylum.com
“DreamWorks Animation Online’s virtual world rendering of its popular film...”
– Virtual Worlds News
Second Life Selling Tip 07 of 15: Vendor Paradigms →
Second Life markets are riddled with scripted vendor machines. A scripted vendor’s purpose is to present many products in as few prims as possible. However they can be painfully slow to rez the…
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“At a time when record labels and, to a lesser extent, music publishers, find...”
– Copyright Time Bomb
“Does anyone know when Microsoft hands out bonuses? For the sake of Microsoft’s...”
– The Macalope Weekly
“After all, what company would want its employees to publicly admit that its new...”
– Macworld
“BlueHippo offers computers to the poor on layaway. But the Federal Trade...”
– Ars Technica
10 Annoying Phrases...
“8. To be honest
Not only is this phrase usually followed by something best left unsaid, but it also implies everything else you say is dishonest.
No kidding! Sheesh. Perhaps betetr to use the phrase “to be frank about it…”
7. No offense
A phrase even more insincere than it is superfluous.”
This also is pretty stupid and goes to show how effing lazy we have become...
BBC News - What happened to Second Life?
Actually quite a good article from the BBC about how Second Life suffered its “hype cycle” through the media and how it more or less has faded into obscurity as far as the media is concerned.
(Second Life is a registered trademark of Linden Lab.)
Also in the mention are a few interesting quotes; for example how it was worth spending the money back in 2006 for a company to go into...
“On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage...”
– Ars Technica
