Archive for March 26th, 2008
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
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Wall Street Journal: The World’s Hottest Chili - “The peppers yielded a reading of 1,041,427 SHUs, twice that of the California red savina pepper, the previous record-holder. An SHU is the amount of dilution needed before the chili is undetectable. A drop of bhut jolokia extract needs a million drops […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
SLGA: Linden Lab releases Capabilities Server as Open Source (technical)Linden Lab released their capabilities server under an MIT license yesterday. It is written in Python and available as part of the mulib package (trac view here) which was released as Open Source earlier.The capabilities server is one of the core modules needed for the Second […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
AjaxLife’s Killer App: Offline Deletion Of SL Inventory From The Web!The latest version of AjaxLife, the web-based Second Life viewer from teen Second Lifer Katharine Berry, comes with a powerful new feature that should warm the heart of every Resident who’s been in-world for more than a few months. It’s…SLHamlet
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Google releases Contacts Data APIYou might have noticed the unfortunate mechanism of retrieving your Google Mail contacts by site asking your for your Google username and password. Apparently this is on of the nightmare of every person just a little into security, aren’t you not just able to retrieve the Google addressbook but also have […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Today in Second Life - Wednesday 31 October, 2007
Filed under: Odds and Ends
Today in Second Life we had:
32,528 new signups bringing us to 10,585,610 signups total.
A peak concurrency of 50,872 at 3:30PM, and a minimum concurrency of 27,105 at 1:05AM. Median concurrency for the day was 39,968.
The Grid Stability […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Make an 8 Inch Circle Using a 6 Inch RectangleIn this instructable I will show you how to make a circle using a rectangle and have the exact center of the circle. I will take this moment to give you a little background on how I came upon this little trick.Perhaps this is taught somewhere […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Yesterday’s Money: 31st October
Filed under: Linden Dollars, Business
Yesterday in Second Life we:
Spent US$1,284,000 at an exchange rate of L$266.4 to US$1
Exchanged US$257,000 at an average of US$10,700.0 per hour.
Market buys were US$173,000
Market sales were US$84,000
Limit-limit buys were US$200
The busiest time was at 11am when about US$26,000 was exchanged.
The quietest time was […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
Warren Adler Comes to Second Life
Author Warren Adler will be coming into Second Life later this week for a series of interactive events.
A collection of folks at Amazon.com and Cruxy are working together to make this happen. The events will take place at the News Center on Amazon Developers 1, coordinates (118,179,23). You can […]
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
A Nebula For Torley: Dazzling Intergalactic Animation EffectThe Linden of watermelon hues has many fans, but this is probably the first time someone’s named an interstellar cloud after him. Scored to great ambient music also made by the Torlean’s creator, this video is "really just a little…SLHamlet
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
TopfCast #004: What is Data Portability?The PodcastDownload as extended podcast (m4a, 46MB, 50:01)Download as MP3 (46MB, 50:01)How to reach me?E-Mail: mrtopf@gmail.comCall-In Line: +1 (206) 350-4566 (please start with your name and URL/Homepage and email me this information afterwards so it s correct in the shownotes)ShownotesData Portability Working GroupNotes and Recording from the DP […]
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