Bugs and Babes: Content Creation Contests for CashDusan Writer is looking for bug builders, and he’s paying L$50,000 to the winner: specifically, he wants "Insects, spiders, creepy crawlys, little flying things." The designs will be used to populate the upcoming Adventure Island, but in a very cool…SLHamlet
SecondCast #61 - Bucket The Secondcasters are joined by guest host Roslin Petion of Roslin Petion of Tete A Pied and SecondStyle Magazine.Download Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard PodcastDownload Standard […]
Second Life Windlight hits release(photo by Andromega)Linden Lab’s Windlight version of the Second Life Viewer will soon be available as the standard viewer. As Soft Linden on the Second Life Open Source Developers mailing lists just announced it will be part of the 1.19.1 release candidate of the Second Life viewer.Windlight is a complete revamped […]
The Acrylic ScorpionThis is one of my instructables that I am entering in to the Halloween contest. While not your typical Halloween decoration, it really depends on where you are located. Here in Arizona we keep a look out for them. Scorpions are one of those creepy crawly little things that you have to […]
Muslims and the Metaverse: Can Second Life Improve US-Islamic Relations?One day in Second Life, Eureka Dejavu met a Muslim woman lingering in an SL-based synagogue, and wondered why she was there. "She had wanted to attend services at a synagogue all of her life but feared prosecution or upsetting…SLHamlet
Solaris Version of Second Life Viewer
A developer asked me to post some information about an alpha-level release of the Second Life viewer for the Solaris and OpenSolaris operating systems. The developer is “corporate” and has been asked to keep his Second Life activities separate from his official job duties. While I can’t vouch for the […]
Sammamish Snow 2008
For the last couple of days the Seattle-area weather forecasters have been predicting a big snow storm and until this morning I didn’t believe them. Saturday came and went with no snow. On Sunday we got hit by ahail storm that left 1/2″ of hail on the ground which quickly melted away. But […]
Classroom Twitter Using WordPressI may be late to the this party, but the Twitterverse just led me to this fairly new theme for WordPress named Prologue which seems to create a Twitter-like blog that can be installed locally. Here is a demo to check out. And here is another, YouthTwitter.com that was put together by […]
Quick post from my shop Negozio Del Graffiti in Ravenglass - haven?t been to active in SL lately.posted by Kidd Newchurch on Ravenglass using a blogHUD : [blogHUD permalink]
The Distributed UniversityJeff Jarvis riffed yesterday on “Google U,” the idea that there are all sorts of new ways to think about a college education aside from the 4-year, right outta high school model that most kids go through. Jeff and I both have kids and are staring the college decision game (and the subsequent […]