last week we mentioned the Linden Home dealio – a free 512 sm of land with a home for premium accounts. it’s a good idea, we think, because even though you always had free tiers for 512 sm of land, most people found it hard to buy land that size (and it could be expensive [...]

second life is always buggy.  part of that is because what it does is massive – real-time rendering of 3D graphics is a massive task. both for your machine and for the servers dealing with them sims are designed to never need restarts and Linden advises against doing them regularly. the Linden servers take care [...]

woops! =p if you don’t know what Ning is, well, no worries. it’s a, hmmm, lol, i’m not sure what it is! it’s a place you can go to create your own online community for free. it’s pretty cool in that you can make it by approval only and members can set up their own [...]

For my winter theme I decided to go with a deep forest in winter time look, I know I wanted trees, lots of trees, and shrubs and lots of snow. I bought a weather system just for this particular setup.  I don’t exactly celebrate Christmas but I do love winter and snow and I wanted [...]

wow! “learn something new everyday” is certainly true for me today! i can’t wait to try this out in-world! okay, so when you get a lot of avatars together what do you get? anyone? LAG. LAG. LAG. bah, right? need to get a new PC right? need to clear your cache and drink a glass [...]

did you know you can review second life statistics? it used to be a prominent link on the site, but is a bit more obscure now Second Life Economic Stats they update daily and have loads of information. we typically don’t look at this too much but after being challenged on facebook on total concurrent users, we [...]

do you know about the Crowne Plaza in Second Life? well, it seems to be gone. we have been trying to hit it for a few weeks now =( they had a great online interface that allowed you to reserve any of three different rooms – a conference room, a theatre, and a lounge when [...]

sometimes you just have to play a little. playing around with prims and trying twists, and dimples, and cuts is a great way to learn and you really can’t mess anything up if you start from scratch. sometimes you stumble across neat shapes, like in this thing the fuselage part is just a cylinder with [...]

more hanukkah fun!  a mega dreidel and it’s free! complete with spinning action (batteries included)  =) don’t know what hanukkah is? well, here is a very easy read that explains it rather well: Let there be Lights get the HUGE mega dreidel here

yay, it’s hanukkah! and no doubt that second life is heavily judaic! just look at the default sphere! that’s a matzo ball if ever i saw one!  =p lol, but you don’t see much in the way of hanukkah stuff isl even though it is super cinchy to build (but overall, it seems peeps are sensitive to much [...]

wow! this looks really good! as much as we may moan and groan, we really love second life. it’s important to us and despite some rants, we put our money where our mouths are (well, Ener’s sometimes big mouth)  =p twelve sims is a heck of a commitment and the health of the estate is directly [...]

you know, we have been back in forth in how we feel about Linden Labs – sometimes we go on about how awesome they are and sometimes we think they blow o_O well, typically when we think they blow is after they have done something that has pissed off peeps – the openspace thing, the [...]

Lucy Barrow asked us on twitter about making avatar animations, so since we pulled together a few links, why not post them here too! (ener <– what a big brain!)  =p so you can make your own animations and it’s really not that hard to do and some of the tools are free! w00t! all [...]

have you been getting offline IMs that sure seem familiar? seems that many people have, but i have not heard anything official about it it looks like most of them have older dates as part of the IMs so take a good look at them. i guess it’s just a burp by the Linden servers [...]

the other day i was talking with someone about building and advanced menu settings (ctrl alt d). there are several nice things you can use in there. i like Disable Camera Constraints, it let’s you swing your camera farther away and also under the ground (handy for finding lost prims) while talking about this, i mentioned [...]