Monthly Archives: September 2007
Hell freezes over!
No, this is not about Europeans having now to pay Value Added Tax to Linden Lab — I’ve covered it on SLOG already — but something far more unexpected: Havok4 Is Here On The Beta Grid! In a completely unexpected turn of events, it seems that a “secret team of Linden developers” have finally managed to change the server software to implement a much more recent version of Havok (it’s currently on…
Dealing with the Second Life bugs with humour
Just read Cat Gisel’s poem. It’s hilarious! Send article as PDF to
Commemorating three years of democratic self-government in Second Life
It seems like yesterday, when a group of about 60 people or so opened up their self-governed, democratic community in the old mainland snow sim of Anzere. Three years later, in spite of constant predictions to the contrary, Neufreistadt (Confederation of the Democratic Simulators) and their sister group on the mainland, Port Neualtenburg (Funadama), are still alive and kicking, viciously fighting their political struggles on the Representative Assembly and on…
Virtual celebrities — are they real?
Well, I don’t know, but you’re welcome to discuss it at the New World Notes Thanks to Hamlet Au for publishing the article! Send article as PDF to
Open Second Life — The Roadmap?
Although it doesn’t come as a surprise to many of us, Linden Lab has slowly gathering up momentum on their future development strategy for Second Life, which, as we all know, is making the whole code open source. We know now that the major reason for doing so is not simply “being nice” (which they certainly are ). The whole point is that Linden Lab is unable to hire the…
Sculptie morphing magic!
Thanks to Rad Hand for having demonstrated Vlad Bjornson’s fantastic animated, morphed scupties. How does this work? It’s very clever: you send a QuickTime stream that has several sculpties in sequence. These, in turn, will make the sculptie’s texture be changed as the QT stream enters your computer. As sculpties are generated on your computer — and not on the server — this happens automatically and quite fast. The results?…
The multi-cultural Second Life® and penetration rates
Encouraged by Hamlet Au’s article on how Japan is growing its number of SL residents, I thought I should do some statistics as well, just to keep everybody amused in what you can find out about Second Life. Hamlet has this breakthrough announcement that “Japan Residents Surpass Europe”. What he really wishes to say is that Japan has more residents than any European country, but the title is misleading. As…
“I am who I am”
So, identity validation is upon us “soon”. Having let the message sink in — after all, it’s no surprise, Linden Lab has been talking about it for quite a while — it’s time to try to understand the implications. In other words, like LL likes to call it, a post-mortem analysis of what this might mean for our fellow residents — the kind of thinking that sadly LL does not…
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