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New World Notes: New World Tableau: "After" by Turlu Tulu

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:00:13 +0000

Partly inspired by Cloverfield and Planet of the Apes, Turlu created this post-apocalyptic image, which is actually a composite of several SL locations. The Statue of Liberty, of course, from SL's New York sim, and the surrounding city, from Sick....

Crap in the morning: The Great American Smokeout

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:47:24 +0000

Reason Number #971 To Stop Smoking: The hallucinations.

My avatar smokes. I don't. Deal with it.

iheartsl community blog: Bella's Prom Look by you.

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:35:22 +0000

We have finally reached the end of my little Twilightseries. I hope you all have enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed putting it together! With just a little over 12 hours until the movie opens (squeals like a schoolgirl), it is time to meet our lead character, Bella Swan.

The author of the series, Stephanie Meyers, doesn’t go into too much detail of Bella’s appearance. She wanted it to be easier for the readers to step into the characters shoes. The description that she does give of Bella is that she is average height and weight, pale skin, and wide chocolate eyes. She has straight, dark brown hair and wears little make-up.

Choosing a shape for Bella was simple. Averie Larnia of Hourglass Shapesis also a fan of Twilight and made a dollarbie based on Bella as portrayed by Kristen Stewart in the movie. This is still available in store! I went with a skin from Rockberry’s Willowline again, because some of the make-up options were very low maintenance. The eyes are from Adam and EVE, called Turkish Delight. For the hair, I went with the Jessica style from ETD.

I chose to do two looks for Bella, the first being a casual look. For the second look, I really wanted to do Bella’s prom look, as that is an important scene in the book.

For the full outfit details on both Bella’s casual look and her prom look, please head on over to Retail Therapy! You’ll also find links to two songs from the movie’s soundtrack that remind me of Bella-both from Paramore.

Xoxo,

Tiffer GG

Pixel Scoop: Lively to Shut Down - that didn’t take long!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:09:31 +0000

If at first you don’t succeed….. try and…. well actually, sod that, just close down. At least that’s what you could be led to believe is the philosophy of the Google’s Lively team! The Google blog tells us:- “In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their [...]

Gigs Shrugged: Minimum Wage and Unemployment

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:53:58 +0000

One can support minimum wages and still understand that they raise unemployment for those subject to them. It’s far from settled whether there is a net benefit or not, but it’s pretty much universally accepted that they do raise unemployment.

The easy proof is to consider a minimum wage of $50/hour. One consequence of this would be the near complete elimination of the entire retail employment sector. Automatic electronic clerks would be installed at every store to take money. The budget for technological improvements to self-service retail technology would be huge.

Obviously, employment is decreased as millions of positions are eliminated. Funding into technology to replace those positions, however, is massively increased. Engineers enjoy full employment, as do technicians to service these machines. These increases in high tech employment would not come close to offsetting the massive lower end job losses though. There would also be massive frictional losses as companies struggle to retool quickly. In the long run, there may even be a net gain to society, as new technologies to replace human workers are developed.

But one incontrovertible fact remains, the higher minimum wage caused higher unemployment. Not everyone can be an engineer or a highly skilled worker. Minimum wages have the strong potential to hurt the very people they are designed to help, eliminating their jobs, replacing them with machines. Something to consider the next time you pump your own gas (and pay yourself at the pump), use an ATM, or a self-service checkout at the grocery store.

Vint Falken: Google Lively shuts down December 31 2008

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:49:27 +0000

Starting December 31, 2008 Google’s Lively will be shut down. Rooms and avatars will not be available. Embedded rooms in blogs and other web pages will continue to show an image, but users will no longer be able to enter Lively rooms and interact. I hope nobody was planning on celebrating New Year’s Eve in Lively? ;)

From the Official Google Blog:

In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it’s the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people’s lives. But we’ve also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off.

That’s why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams.

We’d encourage all Lively users to capture your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms. Thank you for sharing this experience with us. We’ve learned a lot about how users interact in rich social environments, and we hope you’ve enjoyed your time with Lively.

Posted by The Lively Team

I wonder, though luck for the content creators that started to spend a large amount of time experimenting with Google’s Lively? Wasn’t ‘Lively’ not err.. lively enough? Not enough interest as sex & flirting was not allowed in Lively? :D And err, is this one less competition for Second Life, or a large bunch of people that now will not get interested in the concept of ‘3D worlds’ in the first few years? :/

Hat Tip: via Kris Constellation, still alive! ;)

3D, 3D web, google, lively, virtual worlds

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Metaverse Journal: Google Lively bites the dust

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:34:32 +0000

After less than five months, Google have pulled the plug on Lively. In a fairly terse statement, no substantive reason is given for the axing beyond wanting to concentrate on “our core search, ads and apps business”. It’s a quick demise for a virtual world that showed some initial promise. It did have its controversies over its [...]

Gigs Shrugged: My First Drama Response Blog Post!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:52:34 +0000

While I’m not the least controversial character, I usually don’t embrace drama for drama’s sake. I want to post about my recent banning from SLU to clear the air about certain things though.

Cris was absolutely justified in banning me.
It’s only for a week.
The threads were as described, various extremely tasteless “parody threads”.
They were just parodies and I don’t really feel that way about any of the attacked groups.

At the time the “stupid libertarian” thread was building up, I was in bed with food poisoning. This much of it wasn’t Richie’s fault, but it did contribute to me flying off the handle, especially since I still felt pretty awful when I logged on.

As for why I did it, basically see Cale’s thread. It wasn’t just that a couple people were attacking me, more upsetting was that no one was particularly calling them on it. Cale sums up the situation nicely and I appreciate her being a rational voice. It means that much more because I know she rarely agrees with me. I do enjoy discussing politics with the majority of people on SLU, even if I only rarely get agreement.

See you all in a week or so.

Pandora Designs: new-promo

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:07:14 +0000

I have always used this blog to promote my products, mainly my awesome, incredible animation hug that can keep permissions from your friends so you don’t have to ask them again (publicity plug indeed).

New promo

But Ihave noticed that some friends don’t do that, probably due to a rotten, inefective moral system that keeps them from mixing business and the more deep products of their souls.

So, being the shameless entrepreneur I am (oooops, meaned selfless, sacrificed blogger), I have decided to start posting from time to time about friends’ business and, if I don’t get flooded, any reader who adds here a comment with a landmark (no demos, please, and only one link, or the spam filter will kill it).

As a last comment, I want to remark how I never, never, thought about the benefits I whould get by posting more often at Fashion of SL, and that only shameless, opps, selfish entrepre… ok, forget it and send a link if you want some publicity :-p

Note: If you thought the title was naughty, you have a very naughty mind :-p

BlogHUD: First day long trial run

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:15:36 +0000

Today was the first all day trial run for Becoming Dragon. I spent my longest time immersed in Second Life with the HEad Mounted Display yet, 10 hours. The full motion capture is not ready yet, but the head tracking works, so I am able to use the first person view and look around spaces in Second Life. For a first day long test, it went remarkably well. I spent a fair amount of time in the performance space, the model of the actual room I'm in. When I was eating dinner, Rubaiyat Shatner came to the door and said "knock, knock", which was funny. I had IM'ed him about chatting about the number of prims we can have in our space, because we're currently full. Ars Virtua granted us land...

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eightbar: Google Lively set to shut december 31st

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:41:18 +0000

It is official Google have decided to close Lively at the end of the year. This will no doubt create a great deal of discussion about the future of the virtual world industry, maybe give some nay sayers some ammunition to be negative.
I do feel somewhat sad for those people that were the allowed developers and beta testers who created content, who spent time and effort making things and creating. They now have to make do with video and photos of their work.
Google does of course still have the mirror world Google Earth, which as I have said before we looked at a good few years ago when sat in the Wimbledon bunker and said “wouldn’t it be great to put the tennis scores and rallies on that”. Earth of course also has user created content, the 3d warehouse. It does not have the presence of other people as such.
Lively had the presence of other people, used a plugin in the browser but stuck to the room approach and only let a select few develop on it. This isolationism certainly stopped me from “having a tinker building things”. Yet the more open worlds, ones with UGC, with the ability to see the potential by using the creation tools, they are the effective ones.
Not everyone needs to build, but they do feel they need to have some sort of creative control over the world around them, or potential too. Its an important point and one we proved to ourselves on the Torque metaverse.
Anyway, well done to the Google Lively team for having a go, what you, and we have all learned can make the other worlds better.

Prokofy Neva: "Community Organizing"

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:52:38 +0000

Bam railing against evil self-interested entities like banks and utilities in his ~~commie~~ community organizing-days.

One of the fakest and most illegitimate things on two legs in our real life -- and by extension, our simulated life -- is "community organizing". It rarely involves anything like a real, large authentic community; it usually only involves something small *calling itself* "thecommunity". It is usually artificially induced from outside by those "who know better" and have a decided agenda, often hidden; it is usually funded by small groups with political ideologies and goals that they seek to cover with "community organizing" to get themselves legitimacy. Oh sure, you do find authentic community organizers who are not these things. Usually, you don't find them among politically aggressive people in Chicago who become president of the USA lol.

Many people never focused on what this "community" stuff meant until Barack Obama began batting around the term in a bid to get elected. It's one of the many demagogic things he said to get elected -- and we can see it worked. I was one of those who elected him.

But that hardly means I'm going to be uncritical, and of course I cast a very weather eye on all his leftwing associations, which do indeed, unequivocally, include at least one former Weatherman undergound violent radical and at least one Communist Party member who were, respectively, an acquaintance and a mentor. The milieu that Barack moved in consisted unabashedly of lefties, and especially lefties of the old Chicago type, who include radical Islamists like Farrakhan and Obama's old preacher, whom he denounced, and various Communists and socialists and "progressives" who deny they are technocommies like Lawrence Lessig.

Never forgot Obama's first words upon appearing in public after his election: "Helloooooo Chicago!" And Hellooooo Chicago, with all its radicals, is what we will be seeing for the next 4 years (along with the rewarmed Hillary moderates seeking payback time) -- you are warned.

So the first question you have to ask about the "community" that Obama was "organizing" is as follows: who paid? A private foundation or NGO? A storefront funded with a city grant in the Daly machine? Who? And...what was the community" Himself and other urban intellectuals with an agenda? Poor people who got services who may have been dependent on these storefronts? Who? Who and what was organized?

And...what does it mean to be a "community organizer"? Generally, community organizing is an activity that socialists, trade-unions of the socialist bent, and communists have used for as long as these movements have been in existence. The formula usually consists of an intellectual, usually urban, usually non-working class, adapting an extremist ideology of the left, socialism or communism, or even a milder variant thereof, and going out to "organize the People". These "People" are usually idealized within these ideologies as "the masses" who "need" organizing or "the downtrodden" or "the workers" -- who have always been a special object of paternalist obsession by communists and socialists who -- with few exceptions -- rarely did actual hard manual work. (I can think of the delightful editor of New Politics, Julius Jacobson, a Schachtmanite, who fought in the war and also used to work in old fashioned hot-type printing, for example).

Not surprisingly, Hamlet nee Linden Au is touting the concept, and pointing to Saul Linsky. Oh, dear. A Chicago leftie, author of Rules for Radicals and coiner of the term "Think Globally, Act Locally," whom Hamlet credits with [...]

BlogHUD: Very Interesting!

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 07:09:23 +0000

I like how they've used the logo to make the tables. :)

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BlogHUD: A very fitting use for the preset...

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:57:18 +0000

I'm using my custom "Ubuntu Skies" preset, while at a Ubuntu related place! :)

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SL Reports ||| Your Virtual Worlds News Source - Home: November 19 2008 Market Summary

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:12:39 +0000

Market Summary, Last Updated 10:00pmSLT

1.SLCAPEX Market Volume since 6amSLT: 207,912 Most Active: NIC(SLCAPEX)
2.ISE Market Volume last 24hrs: 40,036 Most Active: CAR(ISE)
3.ACE Market Volume since 6amSLT: 39,690 Most Active: IHI(ACE)
4.VSTEX Market Volume Last 24hrs: 4,915 Most Active: AFP(VSTEX)

Major Indexes (at November 19 Market Open):

VSTEX 410.88 (-0.7%) [VSTEX]
ACE 73.52 (-1.7%) [Luminos]
ISE 32.12 (-7.3%) [Luminos]
SLCAPEX 32.10 (-7.5%) [Luminos]

Zoe Connolly: IL-2 Machinima - RAF vs Luftwaffe

noreply@blogger.com (Zoe Connolly) — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:00:00 +0000

Nexeus Fatale Website: Google Lively Closes on December 31st

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:22:02 +0000

Me hanging out in Google Lively

Lively was Google’s attempt in the creation of a browser based virtual world space (although there was still an application download) and will be closing on December 31st, 2008. Lively was an interesting product, but as designed its failure stems from it’s approach, Lively was built more as a 3D chatroom instead of a virtual world. Rooms were never connected to each other, there was never a sense of community or the ability to connect several rooms together in the creation of a larger space. Instead when filled a room became unorganized chaos as avatars would merge with one another.

Lively also suffered from several difficulties, it’s movement system was mouse based (and unintuitive), keeping up with conversations through a bubble like interface was annoying, is lacked audio streaming but had video and image streaming, and there were not any integrated tools to create items inside of Lively (let alone share them).

Lively’s approach of a virtual world is the wrong approach. It treated this space as an extension of a chatroom rather than the extension of the Internet. Where people could interact with one another not just through chat but through media. Lively was not the first virtual world of its kind and it will not be the last of its ilk to fall. I suspect other virtual worlds or flash based worlds will ultimately fail for many of the reasons Lively has.

iheartsl community blog: Arc

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:51:16 +0000

Yesterday was MDR’s first anniversary. It’s been a year of growth, moving from a small beachfront studio to having an entire SIM full of photo opportunities and a three-story studio extraordinaire. Cajsa has been hard at work building and texturing things, and I have to say the place looks great. We’re having a party on Friday to celebrate a year of taking fabulous photos AND the grand opening of our new SIM, and I’ve been busy with the preparations for that. But I did take a few moments recently to enjoy some of the fall scenery around the grid before it all disappears and the snow starts showing up. It’s not been chilly enough for a coat yet, but this season definitely calls for longer sleeves. I decided to do some mixing and matching of old and new pieces to travel the grid in and I came up with some wonderfully fashionable looks.

More photos, model info, and party details at Glamourazzi.

iheartsl community blog: Lo Jacobs

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:19:23 +0000

I’m so excited!

>> Church of Luxe

Prokofy Neva: Forced Relocation

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 04:14:51 +0000

Anshe Chung is doing a pretty nasty and shitty thing -- in part out of spite, for which she/he is known, in part, out of economic necessity, which isn't pretty. I figured I could expect some retaliation for my criticism of Anshe Chung -- and I wasn't wrong.

The other day I get a notecard from one of the ever-changing ACS workers that in an effort to improve our Second Lives (har har, they pick up this kind of bullshit from the Lindens), we were now going to be forcibly relocated from our homes. Our existing home, on A'ksha Oasis, on a parcel with mountain, desert, and waterfront all in one -- quite unique -- bought more than three years ago, in June 2005, was to be forcibly moved to a neighbouring sim, whose name, A'ksha Mesa, sums up the problem: we were being moved from a beautiful mountain to a flatlands with textures nowhere as unique, and with no terraforming that was unique, as in A'ksha. (Customers are not allowed to terraform.)

Why? Well, there wasn't an immediately obvious reason at all, but I think the way it is being justified (so as not to look as if it is outright retaliation, which of course it is) is that the sims need to be "consolidated". After a neighbour moved out, a huge parcel on the sim went up for sale, at the usual high ACS price (other private islands have moved to $1/m sales, or even $0/sales, with merely tier up front, let's say. Not ACS, which collects both a hefty sale price AND the tier up front, and charges top dollar for the tier, too. I was paying US $29 tier to hold 5120 m2.

Meanwhile, on this A'ksha Mesa, virtually the entire sim, divided up into about 6 parcels, was for sale, covered in yellow, and had been in yellow for ages. So there's the problem: two neighbouring sims, formerly a beautifully landscaped area of some 4 or 6 desert sims making up a fabulous landscape, that simply can't sell. It always had a very hard time selling, because people are afraid of hills; they are afraid their tacky prefabs can't fit on them, they can't figure out how to build or place a house, so they shy away from them. They want flat pancakes where the house instantly fits. Sad, but there it is.

So in order to solve the yellow problem which was dragging on for months, ACS decided to turn two sims into one, dumping off the few people left in the one on to the other. In order to get rid of more yellow, ACS said they'd offer people to acquire more land on that new sim for $0/m cost (as a special favour to offset the sudden forced relocations with 2 weeks notice, although $0/m sale is the NORM on most other islands these days), but of course, paying the higher tier. There was no offer to terraform roughly the equivalent sim. Given that A'ksha had flatlands on it, there was no offer to move the one person on flat A'ksha Mesa over to the flat land of A'ksha; instead, the mountain dwellers of A'ksha Oasis (I have 4 people in the group now) were the ones to be shaken loose.

And there was no offer not to have any relocation at all, but to acquire the land on the sim for $0 to solve the problem, to work together to solve the sales problem. $0/m sale land on that sim probably would have cleaned up the yellow -- I personally would pay tier, but won't pay $61,000 Lindens to buy land.

Oh, and because ACS abolished parcelling, and like the Lindens in Nautilus, no longer allow parcelling on your holding, that meant my tenants in the group could no longer have separate parcels to have separate ban lists and URLs with music. A killer blow to a rentals, of course, which was the idea. Because those of us who bought in 2005 had been allowed parcels, I could get it grandfathered; with the forced [...]

SL Reports ||| Your Virtual Worlds News Source - Home: BNT fights for survival

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:37:31 +0000

For SLReports.net

IntLibber Brautigan, CEO of BNT(ACE), a well know real estate and properties corporation, has recently announced in a press release at the ACE stock exchange site, along with BNT’s financial statement, that he will be “taking drastic action in order to assure continued survival” of the company, as he pointed out reasons for its fall, especially Linden Labs recent decision to raise Open Spaces tiers in January.

Nonprofits in Second Life: Panel speaks about alliance building in Second Life

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:35:03 +0000

Nonprofits are finding that one of the major benefits of Second Life work is alliance building. I had the pleasure of attending Monday's panel on virtual world partnerships and collaborations.

iheartsl community blog: inacentaur

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:19:08 +0000

Linden Lab recently held a lottery for land. Winners are below:

LUNA OAKS GALLERIA

21 TUBE KIOSKS PRIMS
LOT 2 15 prim Limit Faide Morane
LOT 4 15 prim Limit Tracy Rubble
LOT 6 15 prim Limit gwampa Lomu
LOT 8 15 prim Limit Dee Michalak
LOT 22 15 prim Limit LaNebia Stransky
LOT 24 15 prim Limit jlpenarroya sosa
LOT 26 15 prim Limit Alazar Kuhn
LOT 28 15 prim Limit Korana Constantine
LOT 30 15 prim Limit Bjorn Nordlicht
LOT 32 15 prim Limit Thomson Turbo
LOT 11 15 prim Limit Yakendo Genira
LOT 13 15 prim Limit Antoinetta Petrichor
LOT 15 15 prim Limit Shiek Ennui
LOT 17 15 prim Limit Mike Kesten
LOT 19 15 prim Limit Amygdala Raymaker
LOT 35 15 prim Limit Sarsaparilla Lemon
LOT 37 15 prim Limit Isaura Simons
LOT 39 15 prim Limit Peetie Palianta
LOT 41 15 prim Limit Caf Binder
LOT 43 15 prim Limit SirMartinRJ Lupindo
LOT 45 15 prim Limit Clarkovski Bing

10 (18prim) SHOPS PRIMS
LOT 5 70 prim Limit DeniseUnicorn Toonie
LOT 7 70 prim Limit Brigida Ferrentino
LOT 21 70 prim Limit Ras Finn
LOT 27 70 prim Limit Gulsen Andel
LOT 33 70 prim Limit Atea Aeon
LOT 34 70 prim Limit Krakov Letov
LOT 40 70 prim Limit Ann Otoole
LOT 46 70 prim Limit FlipperPA Peregrine
LOT 14 70 prim Limit Bailey Brennan
LOT 16 70 prim Limit Tanja Levenque

8 (11prim) SHOPS PRIMS
LOT 23 35 prim Limit Tonk Heron
LOT 25 35 prim Limit Preston Benedict
LOT 29 35 prim Limit Raindrop Drinkwater
LOT 31 35 prim Limit Balthazar Fouroux
LOT 36 35 prim Limit Autumn Fairlane
LOT 38 35 prim Limit Smoke Gordonstone
LOT 42 35 prim Limit fluke gumbo
LOT 44 35 prim Limit Nue Broome

4 (29prim) SHOPS PRIMS
LOT 3 270 prim Limit GoAngel Sonic
LOT 9 270 prim Limit Petal Paulino
LOT 12 270 prim Limit alba2 rossini
LOT 18 270 prim Limit GeeJAnn Blackadder

2 ANCHOR STORES PRIMS
Anchor Store 1 1535 prim Limit Aurora Autopoiesis
Anchor Store 2 1535 prim Limit Mikey Fairlane
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BUSY BEN’S VEHICLE LOT

CARS
STALL 1 angelica ebbage
STALL 2 skylar sass
STALL 3 sheauming Riley
STALL 5 JuJu Fiertze
STALL 6 ac14 Hutson
STALL 13 Coal Porter
STALL 14 Bard Faulkes
STALL 15 DJAlex2000 Flores
STALL 16 Marcel23 Dreamscape
STALL 17 kingybl00d halberd
STALL 18 Francois Afarensis

FLYING CRAFT/HOVERBOARDS
STALL 7 boiboi Saenz
STALL 8 Heron Halberstadt
STALL 10 Gerome Gravois
STALL 11 Horatio Malaprop
STALL 12 Arth Karas
STALL 19 Isandra Willunga
STALL 20 JR Wahrhaftig
STALL 21 Kornscope Komachi
STALL 22 Hollywood Mureaux
STALL 23 Abramelin Wolfe
STALL 24 Mike Westerburg

BOATS
STALL 31 Samantha Glume
STALL 32 Sabine Stonebender
STALL 33 Azriel Ballyhoo
STALL 34 Claire Dallin
STALL 35 Joyce Trafalgar
STALL 36 Sidonie Vantelli
STALL 42 Laomei Luo
STALL 44 Andy Sucettes
STALL 45 Sabrinaa Nightfire
STALL 46 Anthoney Biedermann

MOTORCYCLES
STALL 25 Winged Heron
STALL 26 Latexina Pinklady
STALL 27 Programmer Wiefel
STALL 28 Nitephire Westland
STALL 29 Nemo Tran
STALL 30 Jeremy Pertwee
STALL 37 jex Nervous
STALL 39 Citizen Dreamscape
STALL 40 Elkdeer Woodget
STALL 41 Keko Heckroth

4 MULTI VEHICLE PLOTS

CAR SECTION LOT 4 Lita Bloom

FLYING CRAFT/ HOVERBOARD SECTION LOT 9 Syem Piek

BOATS SECTION LOT 43 Elizabeth Talbot

MOTORCYCLE LOT 38 Gaius Goodliffe

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Your2ndPlace.com: The Grid takes shape

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:13:16 +0000

There is a fascinating interview over at Dusan Writer's metaverse with Justin Bovington of Rivers Run Red regarding immersive workspaces. Second Life in a box is selling itself to a business near you.

When I was a lad Catherine Linden used to do office hours. I liked Catherine, she was a marketing person who came across as a shoe shopper. I wonder what they did with her? I hope she's not buried in the basement! Anyway, later meetings with Catherine kept talking about "The Grid". Straight away I saw this as a different angle and a different direction. I still do, the Second Life world we all know and love is a different beast.

I find it interesting that Rivers Run Red aren't doing any work on what we call the main grid...they call it the main grid too. However their primary focus these days is behind closed doors. NDA signed closed doors too as they won't talk about it.

This brings me back to the 9th July where I noted on twitter: "There's no longevity in the Second Life main grid virtual world, the technology may last but the main grid is doomed."

I'm not quite as gloomy as I was then and I can't remember why I felt that gloomy back then but I do envisage Linden Lab being more interested in the immersive workspaces angle than they are in the main grid angle. I can see the main grid being passed around to willing third parties and having a tie in with evolving Second Life technology. Alternatively Linden Lab could create subdivisions whereby a new company under the umbrella name of Linden Lab look after our world and they get on with this grid business of selling immersive workspaces type deals.
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iheartsl community blog: Gidge Uriza

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:58:08 +0000

Sometimes I buy impractical things that I do not need for any reason.

Such as dresses composed entirely of sequins. I gotta confess when I saw this dress at Dolly Rock I truly had to run over and pick it up. It’s just such an OUT THERE dress…….cut down to THERE…..tight all around THERE…….with fun photosourced sequin texturing all over.

I know a secret about sequins in RL. Wanna know it?

click here to continue reading on It’s Only Fashion

iheartsl community blog: )

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:43:17 +0000

Hey All

Sorry for the lonnng awkward silence from me but I’ve been having a few Internet problems ( And I’m sure I still will) + Life stuff but I’m here now so it’s all great!

Little treat entering Kookie - Jewelry!
* We have the LOVE and a Edgy Chrome Bow necklace.
* Spangle mixed bracelets for BOTH wrists encrusted diamonds and mix and match’s , just how I like it!

Come on down and have a peek

Love Kookie

Tp to the store

Metaverse Journal: VastPark expand developer pool, SDK on the way

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:34:43 +0000

Vastpark’s slow but steady progress toward launch continues, with an announcement that its Developer Program has some new faces. Two of those faces include Australian-based companies: Finpa (an eLearning outfit) and The Project Factory (a virtual worlds developer). The other entities coming on board are MindTaffy (USA), Metaversatility (USA) and ADMINO (Finland) [...]

Crap in the morning: Widow Penalty

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:16:46 +0000

From Harper B:

To my friends: As you know, Eshi Otawara is still pending notification about her status in the US. While recent news has been positive for her, things are not as good for all widows of American citizens. Brent Renison is a lawyer fighting the Widow Penalty in the US. Eshi contacted Brent a few months ago, and he agreed to help her with her case. Brent is also in contact with our mutual friend, Mike. Mike forwarded this letter to me and asked me to forward it on behalf of Eshi and the other widows who have been unfairly penalized because their American spouses died before they were able to get a fair hearing. Please join us in assisting Brent and Eshi in this cause. Click through to the website, read about, consider if it is something you support, and contact your legislator. Thanks for your time. Harper Beresford ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From: Brent Renison [mailto:brent@entrylaw.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 3:30 PM To: brent@ssad.org Subject: 60 Minutes Exposes Widow Penalty - from Brent Renison Hello, I promised to let everyone know when I would appear on CBS 60 Minutes. The time has come. Barring unforeseen circumstances, Bob Simon, the most honored journalist in international reporting, will expose the “Widow Penalty” to the nation this Sunday night , November 23rd on CBS 60 Minutes. America is deporting widows of American citizens automatically and without appeal when their spouse dies during bureaucratic processing of the green card application. My sincerest desire is that, after watching the broadcast, Monday morning you will do something about this terrible practice. There are a number of ways you can help to end the widow penalty. The most important is to tell your elected officials that a change must occur in the abysmal way that we treat widows of American citizens. Whether you effect a change in the way the current or future Administration handles the cases, or push through a legislative amendment signed by the President, this practice must stop. Click on the box to find out how you can help. http://www.ssad.org/takeaction.html Please be a part of that change on Monday morning, and please forward this email to just one person whom you trust to do the right thing. Forward to more than one person at a time, and accountability is lost – people will delete the email, just as you might delete mine. Brent Renison

Crap in the morning: Gallery of iTunes downloadable music by SL performers

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:41:14 +0000

If you have music available via iTunes and perform in SL, I hope that your name is on this list or will be on it soon... SECOND FLOOR: Capos Calderwood (Alex Whitmore) Enniv Zarf (Paul Kwo) Matthew Perrault (The Matthew Show) Kourosh Eusebio (Koroush Dini) Rez Xu (RedZone) Silas Scarborough (Alan Fasier) PR Lovencraft (Phil Rossi) FIRST FLOOR: Cylindrian Rutabaga (Grace Buford) FoxyFlwr Cure (Dawn DeSimone) Louis Volare (Louis Landon) EvaMoon Ember (Eva Moon and the Lunatics) KaKlick Marin (Bryan Baker) JueL Resistance (Suzen Juel) Slim Warrior (SlimGirlFat) Bluesmoke Hextall (Guy David) Lyndon Heart (George Michael/Puddle Jumpers) Kyle Beltran (Kyle Bronsdon) Mel Cheeky (Melanie Fudge) AldoManutio Abruzzo (Dennis Moser) TallGuy Kidd (Dale Marsh) MichelleD Ecksol (Michelle and Scott Dalziel) If it's not on the list, drop me a line and we can fix that easily. Plenty of room for everyone.

Phil Rossi is now in the gallery: Mmmmmmm... hot buttered Crescent Demo Rolls.

Crap in the morning: Sharing a few thoughts...

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:34:45 +0000

Barring any further "improvements" by Propsero and his band of merry gridmonkeys this afternoon, I should be disgracing Lauren Weyland's stage tonight sometime aftter at 4:30PM SLT. Tonight's tale may seem similar to one that was posted on a certain D-list blog out there because, well, it will be. However, I think you'll want to get the full impact of the piece with the voice of the author pretending to be Tom Waits.

Yeah, I bombed. WOOHOO!

Massively: Obama's FCC transition team includes MMO gamer, virtual world resident

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:00:00 +0000

Filed under: World of Warcraft, Fantasy, Culture, Events, real-world, Guilds, MMO industry, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds

Among the people President-elect Barack Obama has appointed to his FCC agency review transition team are Net Neutrality advocates Kevin Werbach, assistant professor of legal studies and business ethics at Wharton, and Susan Crawford from the University of Michigan, who teaches communications and internet law. Werbach, as it turns out, is a World of Warcraft player, according to Wagner James Au at GigaOM.

Werbach has written about MMOs on his blog (back in 2006), that games "provide an incentive for people to develop new software and ideas for collaborative production. Many of those ideas will translate to other group activities, including those within the business world. I think MMOGs will be, at minimum, a significant testbed for these new technologies, because users see a direct benefit and are willing to experiment with new things." Werbach plays in two WoW guilds, one started by a friend, and the other is comprised of academics whose interests or work focus on virtual worlds.

While Werbach is more of a traditional MMO gamer, Crawford is a fan of Second Life, judging by what she's written on the virtual world in the past on her blog. At the very least, it's a positive sign that individuals connected with the FCC and its policies really understand how people are using technology to socialize, collaborate, and play.

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Since I have really been pushing the skirts on you the past few days, I thought I would bring you an outfit with a great pair of pants. I just love new stores, and I am always on the search for something new and different and exciting. So, when I was given the opportunity to try something new from a store that just opened up, I jumped at the chance.

Continue reading ‘Berry Berry Nice’ at Fashion Ascension…

Prokofy Neva: Traffic

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:39:24 +0000

Yesterday the Concierge list was disrupted once again with fights as somebody began spreading the rumour about the Lindens removing traffic. I don't think they are actually doing that now, but I did forget to put it on my "What Next?" list -- they will do it, if they feel enough pressure, or if they are simply feeling destructive enough toward the inworld economy.

The usual suspects lined up to denounce traffic and call furiously for it to be removed. They cited the usual arguments:

o bots, which are being used as traffic infusers and which steal resources and aggravate everybody
o they don't need traffic, they have word-of-mouth sales
o people who need traffic for sales are losers; other people should realize traffic doesn't give them sales
o people who hate bots are necessarily driven to use them to compete with others who do, so they want traffic to be removed, so they don't have to do this
o if you need to watch your traffic, get a script to follow not only footfalls but hotspots, length of stay, etc. and get more useful metrics

Most of the people screeching about the removal of traffic are people with clubs or malls reluctantly using bots in order to keep up with other people who happily use bots. The remainder of haters are usually a certain brand of geek who wants bots used for science, but not commerce. That's where there is so much anger and hatred tied up into it -- people don't see the solution is to remove the bots, they want the traffic that the bots are generating to be removed instead.

I cite the usual arguments *for* traffic based on my vast experience of what works for people who rent my land for stores:

o search/places plus ordering by traffic is the single greatest engine of sales in SL, bar none
o people with word-of-mouth sales don't understand this and will never understand it; new people can't get WOM and they need other means to get started, sometimes for a year
o bots should be regulated by charging for any account using them, and labelling such accounts -- that will decimate them overnight
o once you get past the few gamed positions on highly-used search words, you see a merited traffic ordering, and that is used for sales, sales, sales -- this is definitely what shoppers use
o I personally do not use bots, campers, or any gimmicks of any nature, and in fact I benefit from placement by *other* means the Lindens have tweaked in "search all," and have lower placement in "search places".

This debate will never get anywhere, and is at a standstill as usual, but unfortunately, some new voices are weighing in on it now. Simone Stern, who is someone who has no need of traffic whatsoever, as she is a top brand in SL, is now denouncing traffic. Before, I noticed she didn't really comment; now she is.

Simone has always been a friend, and a former tenant, who I know for a fact didn't use traffic gimmicks because I don't allow them. She did for a time, like many of us, use camping on her main store, but not for long -- it was a needless expense and she had sales anyway. Somehow, we got into a wrangle about this as she claims it was merely an experiment by a manager for a day, but I recollect it differently as longer. No matter. Simone has traffic in the 2000s, which is in fact all you need to get sales paying rent/tier. And she has sales at outlets all over SL, and people buy on SLboutique.com of course. And she gets her sales by having mammoth word of mouth from a huge customer base, and from her coverage in RL media. God bless her, she deserves every inch of coverage she gets -- and then some. Her work for the Electric Sheep and other providers has also put her into high visibility -- and she deserves it. Now we just need her to realize that not everyone can use those formulas of high visibility, for which there is only a few slots available.

That's what I just plain don't get about [...]

M is for Myg: What may come

mygdalamarch@yahoo.com — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:11:15 +0000

He wanted to take me to this place I’d never seen before. “It’s beautiful,” he said, and it was.

It’s La Reve, in case you’ve never been there.

I was looking through my photostream and thinking about how baby-related/pregnancy RL photos are sneaking their way into it and how our lives are sort of morphing now too. This night - it was Halloween, actually - was the last time we just sort of hung out and explored together in SL. He goes in a lot more than I do these days but I think that’s just because I’m a lot more uncomfortable (physically) which makes everything more difficult.

I realize that all the same it’s a lot easier to explore in SL now than outside of it. But I don’t even know where to go anymore.

Suggestions are welcome!

(And I’m sorry but I had to change commenting policy because spammers were killing me. Even Aksimet wasn’t catching enough of them and several spam comments made it here a day. I apologize if it takes a little while for your comment to show, but promise unless you leave a comment that says something like “Pills! Vegas! Shoes! ?????????” it’ll show here!)

Millions of Us: Free Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner at Avatar’s Restaurant — Spread the Word, Help your Karma

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:06:42 +0000

This is my friend Ashok — he owns the aptly titled and fantastic Marindian restaurant called Avatars. Every year, he has a celebration at 2656 Bridgeway in Sausalito where he serves a fantastic dinner to as many people as possible on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. For FREE. From 4 PM to 10 PM. Yesterday he told me I couldn’t come unless I brought at least 20 people. This is his way of saying “Thanks”. I think its a beautiful idea — I will be there with my family. Please twitter this and help me out. Last year he served 1100 people.

Ashok, owner of Avatar's

SL Reports ||| Your Virtual Worlds News Source - Home: All Four Index's Drop

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:16:56 +0000

For SLReports.net

In a rarely seen trading day, November 18th saw all four indexes drop.

The Virtual Stock Exchange (VSTEX) came out the best, on almost microscopic traffic, losing only 0.7% of it's share value on 979 shares traded, all in ITA(VSTEX). A brief disruption of website activity may be to blame for yesterday's light volume. VSTEX has begun to take extensive and innovative efforts to increase share volume, including discounts for the 20 most active traders, and discounts for listed companies who increase their volume.

New World Notes: Play With Vidal: "The Avarian Expedition"

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:43:13 +0000

Vidal Tripsa plays some of Second Life's most promising games Title of Game: The Avarian Expedition Released: August 2008 Rating: **** (out of 5) Genre: RPG Summary: Hunt for treasures, gather resources and craft or trade precious items in the...

Millions of Us: What Should the Inauguration be Like? How can the Internet Play a Role?

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:04:02 +0000

What Will the Inauguration be Like?

BlogHUD: Summer, Sadiya, Themis

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:57:11 +0000

3 Faeries on Summer Sim.

crossposted to Summer Seale

posted by Summer Seale on Summer using a blogHUD
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The Connolly Telegraph: The Heliograph: Airship Races in Antiquity this weekend!

noreply@blogger.com (Zoe Connolly) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:55:00 +0000

Passing this news along (curtsy to Rafael Fabre)

The Heliograph: Airship Races in Antiquity this weekend!

('My Airship', by Shawn Kun, Deviant Art)

Received this message during my efforts to construct an edifice..

Welcome to the second Antiquity airship race! This year, there are two classes, physical engines and non-physical engines.

Again, these crafts must be steampowered, whether that be or prop or steam jet (as long as it is steam). The first race starts at 12:30 SLT in Antiquity, on Saturday, the 22nd of November.

1st prize in both races is L$5000.

The 'Physical Engine' class will run first, followed by the 'Non-Physical Engine'.

The course will be available prior to the race start.

Good luck to all!

For more information, please contact Sion Tendaze in-world.

The Heliograph: Airship Races in Antiquity this weekend!

Chromotive: Art I Like Lately - pencils, crystals, bread

noreply@blogger.com (Nebulosus Severine / CM Pauluh) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:49:03 +0000

Carbon Copies by Nadine Jarvis -

Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash - a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.
Each pencil is foil stamped with the name of the person. Only one pencil can be removed at a time, it is then sharpened back into the box causing the sharpenings to occupy the space of the used pencils. Over time the pencil box fills with sharpenings - a new ash, transforming it into an urn. The window acts as a timeline, showing you the amount of pencils left as time goes by.

[ Source: http://www.nadinejarvis.com/projects/carbon_copies ]

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Seizure by Roger Hiorns -

...80,000 litres of a copper sulphate solution was poured in from a hole in the ceiling. After a few weeks the temperature of the solution fell and the crystals began to grow...

[ Sources: http://shapeandcolour.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/roger-hiorns-seizure/
http://www.artangel.org.uk/
http://www.corvi-mora.com/rogerhiorns.php ]

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Bread Body Parts by Kittiwat Unarrom -

Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes make the work all the more creepy. Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.

[ Source: http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2008/08/kittiwat_unarro.php ]

BlogHUD: Summer, Sadiya, Themis

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:48:13 +0000

Hanging out at Summer Sim.

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dispatches from the metaverse: Winter Magic in Black Swan

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:29:59 +0000

I wanted to announce the next Black Swan event organised by Rezzable for this Holiday season. The third and probably the last of the Fashion Inspired event will be held between December 15th and January 9th in Black Swan sim. More then three weeks of magical designs to fashion shows and special events to gather the fashion lovers together in one sim. This time around, we have got another mix of wonderful designers to surprise us once again. This Friday, I will announce the full list of participating designers so if you would like to participate please contact me at lokum@rezzable.com . We try to limit the size of the group to max 20 and so far we have got couple of places left. If you missed the series of Fashion Inspired Events please check some of the Fashion Show videos here and read more of the designers who have already participated here .

Managing the Gray: Open Web Awards Voting Now Open

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:15:43 +0000

As a blog partner, I’m happy to announce that voting has now begun in the Mashable Open Web Awards.

Voting begins now and goes until Sunday, November 30th at 11:59 pm PST. So be sure to take a moment and vote for your favorites in each category. When the winners are announced I’ll be sure to list them here as well

Pixel Scoop: Scammers and Fraudsters - A rant.

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:03:42 +0000

I don’t know what is more offensive - people trying to con you out of loads of money in game, or people thinking you are stupid enough to fall for it. Today I was contacted by an avatar that was all of 2 days old and was looking to sell her entire 6 sim estate. I [...]

SL Reports ||| Your Virtual Worlds News Source - Home: ACE Experiences Dramatic Web Traffic Increase

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:56:08 +0000

For SLReports.net

After a month that saw the Ancapistan Capital Exchange (ACE : ACE) achieve an all-time high in web traffic, ACE(ACE) CEO Intlibber Brautigan announced today that traffic had almost doubled in November.

"We have over the past two weeks seen a massive increase in website traffic to ACE, with daily hits averaging between 5,000-7,000 per day consistently," Brautigan said in the official press release, "With 57,000 hits in the past ten days, the month of november should see a total hit count of over 170,000 hits, almost twice last months record hit rate of 91,000. This demonstrates we are clearly starting to break through to the general public."

Second Life Blogosphere: Avatars United | Zoe Connolly - Profile [del.icio.us]

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:28:10 +0000

Nonprofits in Second Life: Avatar on Duty is Back!

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:34:28 +0000

In keeping with our mission of improving communities by the application of knowledge, which unleashes the power of nonprofits, foundation, and individuals, the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Leadership (http://www.johnsoncenter.org) at Grand Valley State University (http://www.gvsu.edu) is offering Avatar on Duty service (AvOD) to the Philanthropic community in Second Life. We will have various Avatars available to answer specific questions related to effective philanthropy and nonprofit leadership.

Massively: Second Life October metrics: More falls

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Filed under: Economy, News items, Second Life, Virtual worlds

October metrics for Linden Lab's virtual environment, Second Life are not yet formally available, but Lab CFO John Zdanowski wound up giving out a link to the information in advance, so we have the figures to work with. September was not a good month by these metrics, and we were interested to see how October panned out.

Your key takeaways for October are a continuing plunge in premium accounts, and a reduction in overall economic activity. User hours, however were up. A more detailed summary follows after the jump.

Continue reading Second Life October metrics: More falls

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Tao Takashi: Obama’s FCC Transition Team to have virtual worlds experts on it

tao.takashi@gmail.com (Tao Takashi) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:53:45 +0000

As BoingBoing reports (via James Wagner Au, a journalist well known for his insights into virtual worlds), the FCC transition team has Kevin Werbach and Susan Crawford on it. Kevin seems to be a passionate WoW-player and Susan Crawford knows her way around in Second Life (as does Cory Doctorow, btw).

Of course they also have expertise in many different areas of technology but to have knowledge in these areas as well - something which is already or will be a big part of our future life - is a very good thing to have.

German politicians OTOH are still trying to understand the basics of the internet and by doing so “accidently” shutting down wikipedia.de. There is a long way to go for us!

[via BoingBoing]

Technorati Tags: fcc, virtualworlds, boingboing, obama, transition, wow, games, gaming

Crap in the morning: Wacky

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:36:08 +0000

There's one one word I can use to describe Second Question: wacky. At first, I didn't understand the show. Wrote it off. Then, as I applied Lincoln aphorism "I don't like that man. I should get to know him better." I started to understand the chemistry that Pooky and Hydra have. And it works. The show's format connects and involves the audience a lot better than another in-world show that I used to infest. You're not just sitting and providing avatar-ballast for pretty scenery, typing OOOH and YAY and WOW every few minutes, clicking Applause like a trained seal. Hey, if that floats your boat, well, paddle your dingy to that tidepool and have a ball. I think this is a lot more fun to watch... and avatar-watch, too. Although I probably need to stop answering so many of the trivia questions openly. Better to just sit back and enjoy the banter, the guests, and the general craziness. And get more snapshots, too.

Crap in the morning: Meta Makeover

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:19:13 +0000

Yeah, I'm a 7Seas fishing addict. About to break 40,000xp in my quest to reach the Hall Of Fame. So when the 7Seas folks were scheduled to appear on MetaMakeover, I had to go to the studio to get the exclusive fishy they are giving away for the viewers. No, not a Saffia Widdershins fishy. Ever wonder about the font for the signs? Seven's badge should be a clue where it comes from. Got a chuckle from the "They're not a married couple... they're brother and sister."

The interview will "air" next week... check SLCN for times, eh.

Okay, so SecondLie answered reader mail for Avastar and the new issue... THUD they collapsed. Keep an eye on Prim Perfect Magazine's blog for a special announcement about that microblogging miscreant's newest gig. Hopefully, Saffia doesn't watch her empire crumble like AvaStar did. Saffia's good folks.

iheartsl community blog: sale

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:18:55 +0000

new stuff by K2K United Enterprises! “Manga” Bringt Farbe in dein Leben!

Nach erfolgreichem Umbau gibt es bei K2K United Enterprises wieder jede Menge Neuheiten.

Momentan gibt es als Eröffnungsangebot das Shirt “Manga” im POP ART Design zum halben Preis (50 L$),

von denen ich mir gleich alle drei kaufen musste.

Dazu trage ich noch die Jeans mit dem Label von K2K. Die Schuhe, Haare und Armbänder sind von ETD.

Mehr Neuheiten findet Ihr im Aussenbereich, der sehr schön im Stil einer Altstadt gestaltet wurde. Ein Besuch lohnt sich!

More Styles? and Landmark? visit me: niciLINE

Osprey Therian

noreply@blogger.com (Osprey) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:42:31 +0000

Another cockamamie Osprey idea: a top limit to Traffic - say, 10,000 (arbitrary number), to mitigate the influence of bots on the grid while preserving Traffic.

Metaverse Journal: Australian politics and virtual worlds - no momentum

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:34:34 +0000

It’s coming up to a year since the change of Federal government in Australia. In Second Life, there was an election night party. At the time there was lots of excited talk about the ALP’s broadband policy and the promise it may bring - there is progress on that front but it’s fraught with problems. Then [...]