BoomerangландшафткомпютриSCENE I(Tucker and I at the computer getting ready to get some info on how to throw the boomerang I just brought him back from Australia.)Me: So where do you want to start?Tucker: (Already typing “www.yout…”)Me: Wait a sec. (Trying to sound wise.) Before we go there, why don’t we see if we can get […]
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 […]
The Machinima Contest Winners!furniture VidenovThe Koinup Machinima Contest had it’s award ceremony yesterday, announced the three winners. Two have been chossen by me and CodeBastard Redgrave and one was the community winner.All in all I must say that Machinima has come a long way in Second Life since back then in 2006 when I started. […]
Can we call them SLphones?
Filed under: News
This Tech Digest story has it that TokyoZERO, in a partnership with a company calling itself Sun (though not Sun Microsystems, as that’s not their logo), are apparently working on a way to get SL on your cellphone. Or perhaps not you, but the Japanese. Now, we’ve been on […]
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 […]
?First, Kill All the School Boards?The Atlantic has a piece by Matt Miller that made for some great plane ride reading last night. The article “A Modest Proposal to Fix the Schools: First, Kill All the School Boards,” gives a quick overview of Horace Mann’s desire to bring a Prussian system of nationalized schooling to […]
A new year dawns
Filed under: SL Insider Business, Resident Snapshot
If I were a pagan, this would be the first day of the new year. Although it’s not a description I’d use, I’ve known more than enough over the years, and sometimes that feeling of looking forward now (in relative sobriety) rather at the more normal […]
Links for Monday, November 26, 2007
Joseph Jaffe: Top 10 Reasons why Marketers hate Second Life - “Second Life or any emerging media/platform is not and should not be looked at as a reach play. If anything, it represents qualitative reach as its “residents” are comprised of influencers, innovators and early adopters. Marketers and their mainstream […]
The Wii as $99 SmartBoardSo the cool thing about this is not that you can pretty easily hack a Wii to make just about any surface you can project onto into an interactive white board (though that is cool, no doubt.) What’s REALLY cool about it is that Johnny Chung Lee, the guy that figured […]
I ll Take Poor Assumptions for $800, Alex So I’m looking at pretty bleak odds right now in terms of getting home from beautiful Monterey (where I got the experience of presenting on the TED stage even though it wan’t the TED conference) because there is this big […]