Archive for June, 2007
Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Links for Wednesday, June 14, 2007
Cosmic Log: Lunar Lander Lineup - “To have any chance of winning a prize, a team will have to get its remote-controlled rocket ship to lift off from one pad, hover at least 50 meters high, touch down at a destination pad 100 meters away, fuel up again, then make […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Not Just For Avatars?
I was reading the release notes for next week’s release of the Second Life client and was amused by bug VWR-248: “Inexplicable folding of Avatars such that they are walking around with their heads up their arses.” It is entirely possible that this bug isn’t limited to Second Life, but may also […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Will?s Links 06/25/2007Chart: Who Participates And What People Are Doing OnlineChart that indicates the level of participation in Read/Write Web tools. - post by willrichListen to this podcast
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Interview with Eggy Lippmann aka Jorge LimaThis interview with long-term residen Eggy Lippmann was made a while back, after the SLDEVU in London in December 2006. We talked about the past and future of Second Life and also mentioned the opportunities and problems of an open source client (which wasn’t released back then but was […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
SecondCast #41 - Samurai Podcasting The SecondCasters take a field trip to the Samurai combat sim. One of the developers, Esprite Xavier, gives a tour and trains the SecondCasters in the art of sword fighting. Special guests Jane Calvert, Jeremy Flagstaff, and Mark Barrett tag along for the […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Rik’s Picks for June 28-July 1Rik Riel’s weekly round-up of upcoming SL events… The Long Now Foundation presents the in-world premiere of Brian Eno’s massive art installation 77 Million Paintings alongside its real world premiere in San Francisco. Described as a constantly evolving sound and…rikomatic
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Putting the ‘decimal’ back in Dewey
Filed under: Odds and Ends, Mixed Reality
It’s funny, I was just today speaking with someone about how I rarely go to the library anymore. It’s just that, you know … you have to go outside. Did you know that? Fortunately, the University College Dublin has fixed at least that part […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Links for Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Guy Kawasaki: Speaking as a Performing Art - “Hand gestures, pacing around the platform can all be useful tools in presentation, but the eyes ah, the eyes have it! If you can t engage people with your eyes you will eventually lose your audience […]
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
READING *ANIMA*Dalian Hansen self-portrait Exclusive to NWN, I’m proud to present this excerpt of Anima, Dalian Hansen’s groundbreaking new novel, the first to use Second Life as a central element of the story. It begins with a conversation between the author…SLHamlet
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Saturday, June 30th, 2007
Blues In SLWell, I missed the event, but Komuso has posted a mega-cool video of the SL Blues n’ Roots Festival.Click To PlayA music machinima of the first SecondLife Blues n’Roots festival [SL Blues n’Roots #1] featuring a lineup of four of the metaverse’s top Blues n’Roots musicians. Created by one of the top machinima […]
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