Brueghel's Battle of Carnaval and Lent.Happy Ash Wednesday!Just as I told you back on Groundhog Day February 2, when Jesus came out of His cave, he saw His shadow, so then we knew it would be 9 more weeks until......

A reader writes:  "Been thinking about this blog post. Realized earlier this week that today (Feb. 14) marks the 3-year anniversary of what many consider to a landmark post on the blog and here we sit three years later with no real action taken by the lab to help content creators protect their IP r...

For the life of me, I can't figure out why anyone would think that somebody -- least of all the Lindens -- has to bail out arty or funky or pretty builds in SL that can't get themselves paid for. Hamlet nee Linden Au's silly post asking this question only spawns RL media to pick up an utterly retard...

The SL Herald had been renamed the Alphaville Herald, its old name from the Sims Online days, and has portrayed this in a spoof as if their former name "aquired" the Herald. Nothing like that happened when all Walker did was go change the name. No doubt the move was prompted by Linden Lab cracking d...

Robin Linden is breaking on through to the other side of the servers, and had her fare-well party inworld today with residents, sponsored by the loveable Ham Rambler of the Dublin sim, with music supplied by Dizzy Banjo, Grace McDunnough, Cylindrian Rutabega, and Frogg Marlowe. It was a bittersweet ...

Oh. I get it now. Boy, do I feel stupid for not having the tumblers click before! We've always wondered why the Lindens won't fix that damn v-bulletin stuff on the forums so that we can have normal URLs and such. Damn annoying, especially in the rentals and sales businesses where you want people to ...

Hat tip to cube3 for pointing me to Rough Type again, I've forgotten to read Nicholas Carr for ages and was glad to be back. My post to him with my idea about how to pay for newspapers is below the fold. I'm aware of the 3 or 4 big-think pieces about how newspapers are dying and I do plan to read th...

At first I was going to put this post in the comments below in response to "Secret Santa" and his claims of "inside dope," but then I thought it was *such* an interesting discussion, I'd put it as a new post. I have absolutely no reason to believe that "Secret" is really any kind of "Linden Lab insi...

I love how extortionists and other assorted aggressive fucks in SL tell you "the choice is yours" when they muscle in on you. Lovely, eh? This creep in the Ross infohub IMs me today as follows:-- Instant message logging enabled......

Second Life is better than all the other games and social media. Here's why! On Facebook, you can't do anything about people who try to vampire-bite you. They send that crap at you, and you can ignore them, but if they are aggressive, they will try again. You might consent just to get rid of them, b...