Ok, I admit it, this year’s April Fools’ “joke” was probably in bad taste and definitely went out of control… and I guess that multiple apologies are in order. However, the end result was curiously quite positive, so bear with me for a moment… My problem is that I’m not famous […]
Well, drama aside, I just wanted to refresh a suggestion for the Road Ahead for Linden Lab®. It is deeply buried inside the long list of comments on my recent post. I cannot take credit from the overall concept, because I saw it suggested somewhere else — and sadly forgot […]
[Ok, so, you should be wary of what you read on April 1… don’t take this article too seriously! Nevertheless, I seemed to have been rather insulting to many of you, so I wrote a new article with some apologies — and some surprising news!] The past few days I […]
Today I decided I was allowed a free hour to remember my good old days in Second Life®, when all I had to worry about was… to chat with friends and look for exciting new things 🙂 While consulting my balance on XStreetSL, I came across daiz Papp’s ORACUL-Girl Xstar […]
TWO: THE BIRTH OF THE SOUL AND THE DEATH OF THE SELF. In philosophy, investigations into the nature of self-consciousness can be divided into two main theories. ‘Theories of self’ attempt to determine what kind of thing the self is, or attempt to show that it is not a ‘thing’ […]
ONE: DOLLS AND ACTIVES. In ‘Virals And Definitives In SL’ and other essays, I discussed the concept of the ‘Pairson’: A character in an online world that is controlled by two or more people in RL. This lead to various questions, not least of which was ‘to what extent does […]
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 […]
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 […]
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A few reasons why the SL 2.0 viewer will revolutionise Second Life (even though many might not like the change) on my other blog 🙂