April 2009
43 posts
You Got Swine Flu (Wear Me) →
Everything I’ve heard thus far regarding Europeans and U.S. residents infected is that the flu, as hard-hitting as it might be is relatively mild in comparison to what’s going on in Mexico…. In…
Forget Linden Lab, Call Your Lawyer →
He created a few scripts and three-dimensional descriptions that appear to the user in the Second Life environment, while using a Second Life “viewer”to be a bed (among other things) and the scripts…
Sheeeee’s Baaaaack! →
In the chat rooms and other social places they are known as trolls (in Second Life, we call them ‘griefers’ - but it’s the same smelly pile of cow-shit.) They often also are ‘flamers’, but their main…
Bots: It’s About Damned Time →
This time next week we will begin to routinely look at the Search results and where we find clear use of Bots to gain an unfair Search advantage we will be handling it as an abuse issue. We will not…
Common Sensibile’s Choice Awards… →
Resident’s Choice Awards: more than 6-million registered users. 5-million of which are inert “bots”; 500,000 are “alt account campers”; 75% of whom are barely active in-world at all, so that still…
“Adult Content” Policies - This is Actually a Good... →
Linden Lab plans to release the Release Candidate (RC) for Viewer 1.23, which will be the first to include the new functionality related to this initiative next week. If you want to get an early look…
SPAM vs. spam; Xerox vs. xerox; Taser vs. Linden... →
Hormel, the makes of the food product SPAM were asked about how they felt with the term “spam” being used to describe unwanted ‘junk’ email. Their reply was simply (paraphrased) “It has actually…
U.S. Navy to SL Creators: “We Feel Your Pain!” →
Intellectual Property theft, a.k.a. “plagiarism’ (my words as that’s all it really is) is a highly volatile issue in Second Life and on the minds of practically most, if not all legitimate…
SL Group Spam = Bad Word of Mouth →
I have purchased items in world, then the next thing I know - I am receiving frivolous announcements from that merchant. This pisses me off to no end. Yo, dip-shit, if I wanted updates from you, I…
SL Quickstart - Pushed to New Residents? →
I don’t go around creating alts all over the place, so it’s been quite some time since I’ve gone through the initial user experience…. Anyway, this is all wasted breath as there is no way in hell…
Second Life’s Economy is All Spin →
No, I’m not slamming Mark (“M” Linden”) because he’s doing his job to run the company so it makes profit and is represented in a good light, especially when investors with venture capitol are looking…
WatchJust experimenting with a custom YT player
—Update: …huh. Coming up smaller than it should.
Hey Baby, What's YOUR Name, Good-Lookin'? →
According to Tateru Nino over at Massively, It’s “Ursula.” The push to add a third rating in Second Life is in full swing. In addition to “PG” and “Mature” we also will have “Adult”. She also reports…
Time Warner to Customers: F-YOU
Finally: good news from Washington, which is a dire rarity as there is actually a painful dearth of efforts that actually help the people, rather than lobbyists and big-money concerns.
In case you haven’t been following the news, Time Warner intends to place serious bandwidth caps for internet use on it’s cable subscribers. The “experiment” is where subscribers will pay...
Because I am intellectually superior...
I use a Macintosh.
Oh, I use MS Windows, too. For playing games. And all you MS Windows users, please don’t fret or be offended. You didn’t know any better.
Because I use (and thoroughly enjoy) OS X, I am testing out this handy-dandy Tumblr Widget.
Nice.
Handsome and sleek.
Slick and smooth as a baby’s ass.
Only wish the edit window were just a touch larger.
I'm Special and You're Not...
Royal Press Office is now following you on Twitter!
Twitter to me
show details Apr 11 (2 days ago)
Hi, Ari Blackthorne (ariblackthorne).
Royal Press Office (Yaximixche) is now following your updates on Twitter.
Check out Royal Press Office’s profile here: [Let us not go there with news of Twitter worms in the fray, okay?]
You may follow Royal Press Office as well by clicking on the...
“Torley Linden: “[QUICKTIP] How to download official Video Tutorials &...”
– SecondLife
SL: Shangri-La in Shambhala? →
From Wiki: The phrase “Shangri-La” most probably comes from the Tibetan, “Shang” - a district of Tsang, north of Tashilhunpo”, pronounced “ri”, “Mountain” = “Shang Mountain”, Mountain Pass, which…
Second Life: Land of the WEAK home of the BROKEN →
This is kind of a “guest article” by Charles. Charles posted this as a reply to an article at Land’s End (I wrote about it before) and Charles also forwarded this lengthy reply directly to me as well…
Cooliris | Discover More →
I do a lot of research and image-hunting on the web. Places like iStockPhoto, Getty Images, Flickr and certainly Google Images among a lot of others.
Of course the frustrating thing is being limited by 25, 50 even 100 thumbnails on each page. Click, load, scroll. Click, load, scroll. Click, load… you get the idea.
Microsoft has a few new television commercials where they proclaim very...
Webware 100 2009 - CNET →
I am very happy to see that Tumblr made the C|NET Webware 100 Finalists. Even though I also use WordPress and Blogger, I *love* Tumblr. (I love these in the order I just mentioned them, least to best.)
It’s far more powerful that Twitter but not as heavy-duty as Blogger and WordPress. It’s actually quite a comfortable fit.
I think of it as Twitter being your sloppy around the house...
Call me: 123-555-1212. Sure, Go Ahead. →
Sweet! In Second Life, you often see in people’s profiles the whole “RL is RL and SL is SL and never the two shall ever meet.” Fair enough. I can understand that. Just like the real world there are a…
Free SIM for a Year →
Big Easter Bash from Linden Lab. Because I’m in a viral-marketing mood, I’m going to make you hop blogs all-over the interwebs…©2007-2009, Pixietale Studios, All Rights Reserved.
Hahahah! And you…
Free Sim from LL. Joyful.
Yeppers.
Linden Lab Easter bash (though they have another name for it that I’m not all that keen or comfortable with LOL) … “BunnyHopAlongSomething…”
One of the contests: answer our survey and you have a chance at the privilege of paying us $300 a month for as long as you want!
WooT!
(Yes, I’m being silly. You actually get the sim, tier-free for a full...
Linden Lab, Unnatural Mojo... →
The software industry gets away with murder. No, really. They do. I only need point to Microsoft. For those of you who were ‘here’ when they released Windows Millennium Edition (a.k.a. Windows Me) -…
NWN Silly Question: ...Vagabonds Banned to Adult... →
Hamlet Au talks about the SL regular: strangers banging in your living room going at it when you show-up, like the three bears finding Goldilocks. I don;t care much about that particular article…
Stop Defending Your Game... →
Prad Prthivi over at Metaversally Speaking nails it again. There are a lot of bloggers to rant and rave (or both) about Second Life. I’ve done it again and again over at Common Sensible.
Though Prad is a truly creative creature. Even hooked me (along with a few others) with his April’s Fool joke this year about becoming a Linden. At the time I wasn’t sure whether to...
Old Laura Shack [Flickr] →
Ari Blackthorne posted a photo:
PirateShip and Tents [Flickr] →
Ari Blackthorne posted a photo:
And so it begins... →
April 7, 2009 there will be a roiling (yes, roiling) restart across the grid as Linden Lab rolls-out new server code with enhancements to brea…er, sorry. Enhancements to…well, enhance the Second…
Another test post
The problem I am having with Tumblr - and the reson for these test posts is the way Tumblr is presenting my posts. I am using MarsEdit - an offline authoring utility that allows me to wrote my post in full, then publish it to the blog once it is complete and ready to go
Unfortunately, every time I add any HTML code into the thing, to add formatting such as italics or boldface for example, the...
More on "Adult-Rated" Code... →
So as I was reviewing the fixes, work-arounds and other release notes on the new server being rolled-out on April 7th, I also followed-up on the roll-out that just occurred (April 1) - and I was…
Second Life Server/1.26
New SL Server deployment scheduled for roll-out on April 7th.
Many new enhancements and features.
One of them really jumped out at me…
Release Notes/Second Life Server/1.26 - Second Life Wiki: “Include avatars in the list of ‘top scripts’ in estate tools”
I’m in deep trouble.
via “Release Notes/Second Life Server/1.26 - Second Life Wiki”
Test Post (Tublr is wonky for me now) :\
I have a daily bot (internet bot, not the cardboard-resident kind) that scours the internet for news on Linden lab and Second Life, just so I can see if anything of interest is going on. I also make a dash through a truckload of SL-related blogs.
But as with almost all “news” organizations, they either can never get it right or they have agenda or more often than not: both.
What I...
LL and SL: Done.
Another idiot “news” article:
Second Life’s span is virtually over: “Just three years ago technology experts predicted Second Life would become the internet sensation of the decade, overtaking YouTube and MySpace in the process. Now the same experts are predicting its imminent demise.”
What is it about U.K. “news” organizations? The Guardian, the...
Linden Lab is a Fraud →
According to The Ranger, a college news rag, Linden Lab has nothing to do with the “Online Tutoring Social Network called Second Life.” It’s just funny how another ‘journalist’ just plain gets it…
Adult-rated Continent: Epiphany →
Ever try to teleport into a region (private island) and found you were banned? For whatever reason. Ever go zooming across a sim and run into those “No Entry” ‘ban” lines only to bounce off to the…
Bummed About Voting
Word has it that Linden Lab has set what was to be the next version of the SL viewer aside and have the coding gurus focus on a different, more-or-less featureless version of the viewer in order to ramrod abilities to manage (read: disallow unless vetted) access to the new “adult-rated” continent.
Something is up. Srsly.
As of right now, if you are blocked from entering a parcel or...