Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife on Oct 4th, 2007 No Comments »
I have to say that I spend little, to no, time in Second Life these days - preferring to observe the most recent predictions of its impending collapse (what? again?…) from the reality of physical-ness - sitting in front my computer and web browser (I’m sure there’s an oxymoron in there somewhere).
It is true, in [...]
Posted in SecondLife, SocioPolitical, The Main Thread on Aug 31st, 2007 No Comments »
“Virtual Terrorists” - what waffle…
The fact that this article (via Ordinal’s Cabinet of Ephemera by Ordinal Malaprop) is published in an Australian ‘rag’ is pretty depressing - one might hope for better from The Australian even though it is a Murdoch ‘rag’.
One could spend quite a lot of time writing about its short-comings but [...]
Posted in Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread on Jul 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Well, guess what!? It’s billing time on ‘alter-me’ and the bill is coming to me (no surprise there, and, ‘how rude’ all at the same time)…
What in god’s holy name are you blathering about!?
(another finely crafted Coen Brother’s line… that one from The Big Lebowski)
Virtual Life, Sunny Leafblower, the metaverse, the other place…
Mystified? Well actually [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, Cultural, SecondLife, The Main Thread, Video on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Whilst continuing to check out the ‘Internet lanscape’ I’ve come across some more goodies…
In addition to my previous post on media conversion check out IsoBuster (free & paid versions) and this tutorial if you need to convert any old VCDs to DVD.
Don’t forget to keep looking up the available stuff in the audio and video [...]
Posted in Bits'n'Bobs, SecondLife on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Second Life has hit the ‘magic’ number.. wonder what happens now - nothing would be my guess :)
Posted in SecondLife, The Main Thread on Sep 14th, 2006 2 Comments »
Let me start with a clarification because by the nature of my topic this is going to be a critical post.. critical review .. not specific criticism of Second Life (SL) or Linden Lab (LL)..
I am a fan of the technology of Second Life, its potential applications, and have quite a bit of admiration for [...]
Posted in SecondLife, Video on Sep 14th, 2006 No Comments »
The previously noted “Second Lives” short films are available via Google Video:
Tim Guest
Alayne Wartell
Steve Millar
John Palmer
Posted in SecondLife, The Main Thread on Sep 12th, 2006 No Comments »
In the spirit of keeping one eye firmly on reality whilst the other one is wandering around the virtual…
The numbers quoted in the BBC piece quoted in my previous post were the usual stuff..
Justin quotes “640,000 residents”
Justin also said - “they know ‘people’ earning upward £50,000/year by selling virtual land”, and finally
Julia quotes “nearly 700,000 [...]
Posted in SecondLife, The Main Thread, Video on Sep 12th, 2006 No Comments »
The BBC’s Breakfast program had a slot on Second Life today - you can view it online - as part of a week of featurettes on the theme ‘Where for the web?’. Live it was complemented by a (very brief, as they always are) couch side chat with the reporter, Julia George, and [...]
Posted in Cultural, SecondLife on Sep 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Well it’s on until the 15th of September so check out some of the builds…
The ‘Women Working’ build by Jade Opel provoked thought and some laughs - my idea of a good ‘art piece’ (snapshot to the right & SLURL).
I also like Osprey Therian’s ‘Mankind’s Giant Footprint upon the Earth’ (SLURL), because it asks you [...]