Category: Second Life

  • The Year of the Yin Wood Snake

    Image generated wtih Google ImageFX AI Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the year of the yin wood snake. Now, to be clear, even as a Korean by birth, Asian astrology is no more statistically valid than Western astrology. These systems were born of a time when people tried to make sense of the world

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  • Virtual Reality Cannot Yet Replace Real Life Presence

    Image via Wikipedia Virtual Reality Cannot Yet Replace Real Life Presence I’ve seen some discussions on various mailing lists about attempts to virtualize conferences as a way to save money for participants, given outrageous travel costs these days. Believe me, as an avid conference-goer, I and my wallet couldn’t agree more about travel costs. However,

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  • Dear Non-Profits and Political Campaigns

    Could you use an extra $45,000 per week? If so, you might want to consider having a subscription object written for you in Second Life. A “bonus” called an allowance is issued in Second Life every week to residents. It’s L$50, or roughly US$0.18 per avatar. 18 cents doesn’t sound like much, but hire a

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  • Starry Night in Second Life

    Hat tip to Mitch Joel and CC Chapman for this wonder. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVDVggLqsA[/youtube]

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  • Second Life, Superheroes, and The Greater Good

    Another fantastic seminar with master teacher Stephen K. Hayes has come to an end, and this one is even harder to put into words. Meditations, martial arts, and mind science all blended together for an eye-opening weekend. A few takeaways that I can put into words come to mind… Second Life. Was there Second Life

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  • Amazing builds in Second Life

    I was sailing around the SLuniverse this evening, and found myself in the midst of a HUGE build. Someone is constructing a Nova class starship inside of Second Life – complete with blueprints, floorplans, etc. The attention to detail is AMAZING. Take a look: With builds this high quality, machinema inside of SL is a

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  • Second Life Furnishings

    I had an interesting thought today while attending Coffee with Crayon. If you haven’t gotten it already, I strongly recommend picking up a copy of The Timeless Way of Building, by Christopher Alexander. It’s a fantastic book, nearly legendary in some circles. It is to architecture what Gavin de Becker’s Gift of Fear is to

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