Apparently, Resident reaction to Linden Lab™’s ham-fisted banning of the SL Kids from the Second Life® Fifth Birthday Celebration (previously, previously) had at least some positive effect: LL apparently called off the dogs, allowed the Kids to submit applications again, and expanded the celebration to two weeks (from the previous one week). For [...]
The blog firestorm over Linden Lab’s new policies for the Second Life® Birthday Celebration continues apace, and Vint Falken’s JIRA issue on the topic is up to 166 votes as of this writing. So far, the only comment from the Lindens on this issue has been one comment by Everett Linden on Massively.com…which has done [...]
I’ve been saying for some time now that one of the things I’d like to do is DJ one or more sets at the Second Life® Fifth Birthday Celebration (known as “SL5B” to the sort of people that appreciate abbreviations). Unfortunately, events have transpired that are causing me to rethink this.
For previous birthday celebrations [...]
Vint Falken has tagged me for a little blog game in which one is supposed to name the avatars one would like to have SL sex with, for various reasons. Well, Vint, I don’t think I can give you what you’re asking for…but I can give you something better. It’s called “the truth.” [...]
I’ll warn you right now: this is probably going to turn into one of those “damn, I haven’t posted anything in awhile” kind of posts. Well, as Johnny Lennon said, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” and, without getting into too much detail for an SL blog, I’ve gotten [...]
Tateru recently asked, “how’m I doing?” on her predictions for 2007. Since I gave my answers to her predictions at that time (see comments), perhaps I should help her out and take a look as to how well these predictions have come true.
1. “The Second Life client will be open-sourced…”
Erbo then: “…would be nice, [...]
Time, in Second Life, can be a tricky thing. Thankfully, there are no time variations within the world itself; “Second Life Time,” everywhere on the Grid, is defined as real-world clock time at Linden Lab headquarters in San Francisco, California, hence equivalent to US Pacific Time (corrected for Daylight Savings during appropriate times of [...]
The latest bombshell dropped on the Grand Unified Linden Blog by Daniel Linden seems to indicate a crackdown in the making:
The diversity of things to see and do within Second Life is almost unimaginable, but our community has made it clear to us that certain types of content and activity are simply not acceptable in [...]
It’s hard to believe. It was just about one year ago that I first laid claim to the title “Resident of Second Life.” And I feel like I’ve packed a lifetime of experiences into that one short year.
It began with Orientation Island, and Waterhead, but the path has taken me across the length [...]
You see them sometimes in Second Life: avatars that look like children. Which, in and of itself, is not particularly noteworthy; in a world where everyone can choose to look any way they wish, from supermodel-esque bombshell to bare-chested tough guy to anthropomorphic animal, kid-size avatars probably don’t even cause the Weird-O-Meter to twitch. [...]
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