What is the World of SL? Or the W'ura'ld for that matter? (Khamon, could you please spell that for me again and explain its provenance exactly, thanks). Well, for starters, you can read World of SL as a feeder, and see what you see. One of the reasons I can ask, "Hey, where are the student blogs abo...

I was going to make this a mere squib in the local newsletter, "InfoNUT," but as I thought about it, and various other events of the day, I saw that it had larger significance. Of course the sim of Alice in the Hidden Lakes District has often been the butt of jokes based on the old movie name. Bob B...

Hmm...I'm noticing a distinct lack of watermelony alacrity in putting the transcript of our official SLB5 certified nipple-free event on the official Blob today, but hey, it's a holiday. Last night we had an officially-sanctioned (it was more like a not-unsanctioned lol) panel on the New User Experi...

I had a long and detailed and linked post on this topic, but Typepad ate it, and now I don't really feel like reconstructing it. Like baseball, sex, and child-rearing, I think this topic is more interesting to do, rather than to watch or talk about it, as so many do. I rarely comment on the whole tr...

This isn't a post about what's happening in Tibet now, which is tragic -- you can read about the real-life Tibet everywhere else these days on the Internet. Let me just pause and say for a moment that I think it's an absolute disgrace that groups that could rush to mount protests against Guantanamo,...

And very early in the morning the first day of the week, I was on Second Life, and I happened to see Our Creator, Philip Linden, come online. The sun was rising, but the Lindens hadn't made it an easter egg this year; it was the usual giant, watery, runny fried egg required for Windlight. So I IM'd ...

An abiding interest I've had in Second Life is in virtual architecture. I founded the Society for the Appreciation of Virtual Architecture about 2 years ago. It met very enthusiastically for a year, and then basically, it got destroyed for a time by a real-life invasion of some real-life architects ...

Second Life seems to make people stupid. I mean, they are more stupid than they are in real life, even having a very amplified, visible, interactive environment that you would think would make them smarter. Scientists should study this more. Example: Tymmerie Thorne: (Saved Sun Mar 09 12:29:57 2008)...

Not going to get a perfect rez when this many people are on the island, not on my puter anyway, but good enough for government work. Went to an NGO "best practices" panel held on the Anshe-supported NGO island -- of course, I reach for my gun every time I hear that hackneyed development-speak phrase...