Monthly Archives: January 2007
Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life
Sweden to set up embassy in Second Life from PhysOrg.com Sweden is to become the first country to establish diplomatic representation in the virtual reality world of Second Life, officials said. [...] Send article as PDF to
A tool to aid designing clothes
I came by chance across this interesting item on SL Exchange: AvPainter – SL Clothes Design and Preview Tool by Pootle Trollop. I don’t have Windows, so I haven’t tried it out, but the author claims it’s possible to upload a .tga file for your clothing and apply it visually to a polygon mesh representing your avatar (this mesh is freely available from Second Life’s website). This should be able…
Second Life Client Becomes Open Source
The Second Life client (viewer) was now open sourced and the code is available for free download 
“Four Eyed Monsters” movie to be shown in Second Life
For perhaps the first time in history, a feature movie is having its premiere in Second Life. If you remember my earlier blog entry, you’ve noticed that all it took to get “Four Eyed Monsters” to be screened inside SL was a request to have 150 people subscribing to it. Thanks to SNOOPYbrown Zamboni and the Electric Sheep Company, this became reality and not only wishful thinking The premiere will…
Lies, d**n lies, and statistics
Clay Shirky‘s blog on ValleyWag, “A story too good to check“, has raised a lot of discussion about the nature of the “hype” surrounding Second Life. Shirky’s sceptic approach to it, however, has some severe flaws — not the type that one would expect from a top Internet Celebrity. Obviously, scepticism is naturally a good and encouraging attitude to have, and should naturally be welcomed. When I was first pointed…
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