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05 Mar
If, like me, you’re not the kind of person that subscribes to ATI’s or nVidia’s RSS feeds and immediately jump to the nearest computer shop as soon as the latest graphics card is released, and spend thousands of dollars every year purchasing the latest and greatest to squeeze more performance out of your computer, read [...]
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05 Mar
I have to confess, I’m quite excited by the tremendous possibilities of the recent announcement by Linden Lab that XStreetSL now allows easy L$ transfer between the website and the avatar L$ account, without a fuss, and not requiring in-world ATMs at all. And it’s not just because a lot of more people will start [...]
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03 Mar
Posted in Homepage, Mind Child's Musings by: Extropia DaSilva
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07 Feb
In ‘A Tale Of Two Avatars’, Wagner James Au reports on the discovery that there are two ‘Hamlet Aus’ on the social networking site ‘Avatars United’. Like many things to do with life on the screen, a superficial consideration of this discovery leads to a clear-cut and simple conclusion: There is the real Hamlet [...]
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05 Feb
One skin designer (Namssor Daguerre) and 6 years of the history of skins, on my other blog
Watch never-released-pictures of Awful Gwyn in BSSE (Before Second Skin Era)
[UPDATE] My interview with Namssor Daguerre on Ana Lutetia’s blog, which is the #10 most read blog in Second Life. Thanks for letting me publish [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Economy, SL Philosophy, SL Psychology by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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01 Feb
I had started to write this in mid-October but never finished it… and the database crashed at some point while I was in the middle of writing it, losing almost all of the article In the mean time, the recent interest in this topic, as well as M Linden’s announcement that they would [...]
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27 Jan
As Linden Lab prepares the last round of bug-fixing before launching the brand new SL 2.0 viewer (will it run on Apple’s iPad? lol), I did a few movies showing off how good Snowglobe actually runs on way old laptops.
This is pretty much a personal discussion I’ve got with NetAntwerp, who refuses to believe that [...]
Posted in Homepage, Mind Child's Musings by: Extropia DaSilva
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07 Jan
This time, we get a short essay from Extropia DaSilva… but one that is quite close to my heart Enjoy! — Gwyn
“Trussssst in me/ Jusssst in me”- Ka from Disney’s ‘Jungle Book’.
When H+ Magazine published Stephen Cobb’s article ‘Real Discrimination Against Digital People’, someone wrote the following response:
‘I fully respect online personas, but [...]
Posted in Homepage, SL Economy, Snippets by: Gwyneth Llewelyn
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04 Jan
Uh, right. Well, there are indeed a few ways of doing so
Seriously!
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31 Dec
2009 comes to an end, and after the traditional snowball fight with the Lindens, where residents redefine the concept of physics-induced lag by shooting everything in sight with utter prejudice, it’s time to relax, rethink about what went wrong in 2009, and how 2010 will look like.
Keeping in tradition, I’ll try to get my 2010 [...]