Gynopisces nympha, known as the tropical mermaid, is a sapient marine primate found in tropical coastal waters. Part of the Hominidae family, they have a unique anatomy adapted for aquatic life. The species faces critical endangerment due to environmental changes and has deep cultural ties with human societies, influencing folklore and conservation efforts.
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Congratulations, Second Life®, for achieving two decades of continuous existence!
Once in a while, I like to pop over to the Singularity freaks at Singularity HUB; they are the sort of crazy that I often enjoy — trying to figure out where we’re going, based on the trends of current technology advancement. They will get most things wrong, of course, but […]
I’m currently under a lot of pressure to do my work, and every time I post anything on my blog, I get a lot of complaints that I should be working instead of blogging 🙂 The complainers are right, of course… but every once in a while, I also need […]
Nine years ago, I was completely clueless about what I was signing up with. I think I’ve told my tale a billion times, but, for my rezday, I’ll tell it once again. My roomie and I were far away from home on exile. We had been tracked via the Internet […]
As some of you know, I have been busy helping to prepare the launch of the Lisbon 1755 project on Kitely. I’m not a modeller, nor a historian, so my work for this project is reduced to shifting content from one grid to the other (my own scripting contributions are […]
You know how it is. You are in the middle of some activity — building something creative, enjoying a chat with friends, attending an event — and all of a sudden you get an IM from someone you haven’t seen in a long while. Probably someone who has a profile from […]
By the time you’re reading this, it’s old news: Linden Lab, in an unexpected twist of sudden inspiration, called for bloggers to submit articles to their own official blog. Unless you’re an avid participant on the LL forums, you might have missed that completely. Fortunately, thanks to people like Chesnut […]
Well, the breaking news is that the US Senate has postponed the voting on PIPA. This should give everybody a good reason involved to think twice on this whole issue. I was replying to Prokofy Neva’s pro-SOPA article but unfortunately his setup tends to eat up my long-winded comments (it’s […]
When Linden Lab removed the land tier discount for academic and non-profit institutions, and most organisations simply moved to an OpenSim-grid instead, one started to see less and less announcements about academia in Second Life — with research grants cut to a bare minimum, SL tier, specially for long-lived projects […]
When Government does some measures that the citizens dislike, and appealing to other branches of Government is faced with indifference, what do citizens do? They protest. First, in public forums. And then they come to the streets. What could be most important to protest for in a democracy? Well, most […]
Are You Your Avatar? 2000 avatar portraits explore identity in online environments The largest ever documentation of Second Life® avatars has reached another milestone. Gracie Kendal, Los Angeles artist, Kristine Schomaker, in real life, has photographed her 2000th avatar and she has declared the project finished, at least for now. […]
I have to admit it — I love anything to do with Second Life®’s history. Putting into perspective how far we’ve progressed in the past eight years should give us pause to thought. So I enthusiastically joined Harper Beresford’s “Your SL Evolution” challenge. It’s very simple to join: just grab […]