So you’re still using things like Second Life Herald or Sweet Second Life? Well, take care. Linden Lab’s “grace period” finishes today, as Tateru Nino kindly reminds us on her article on Massively. The popular SLprofiles.com already switched their name to ProfileSLive.com after an internal voting for new names. Other, […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
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By now, it’s impossible that you haven’t heard the news from so many sources, including Linden Lab®’s own blog post on the subject. I would like to apologise in advance for not quoting all sources; so many people wrote from so many different viewpoints, and they all have thoroughly argued […]
As the Second Life Fifth Birthday commemorations approach — with a new round of drama that deserves its own blog post — the insanely clever Jacek Antonelli came out with an impressive post on our relationship with the Second Life® world. Picking on Louis Gray’s The Five Stages Of Early Adopter […]
Part 2 of this essay published here with the permission of Extropia DaSilva. — Gwyn “My God, it’s full of stars!” – Arthur C. Clarke. INTRODUCTION: THE PROBLEM WITH SCIENCE FICTION. Do these quotes remind you of anything? ‘There were seven girls waiting there, all floating just off the tatami. […]
In my youth as a carefree university student, I had very nice teachers that told me that you could only get shadows on 3D computer-generated images if you developed a ray-tracer. Now, my poor teachers of course couldn’t imagine the technological advances. Teachers at video game design schools today probably can’t […]