first things first – it’s Queen Victoria’s birthday – a time to reflect over how much better off the world was when the sun never set on the British Empire. we’ve never forgotten that in Canada and love being in the Commonwealth. but . . . that’s easier for us to do because we don’t [...]

Eros Deus is an active virtual world resident who also shares his trials and tribulations online. one such post, my ishihara test results, showed an interesting intersection of the real world with the virtual Eros discusses being a mutant, okay well not a mutant like a zombie, the challenge of having a mutated green pigment which [...]

last week i was tasked with making a waste-to-energy plant and as with most thing i build, i like to let the idea roll around in my head for a few days. i already had a head start with a great illustration of the major parts that i need to include (thanks to ecomaine). i [...]

a handful of people have tried to create a Mac version of sim-on-a-stick but have run into various impasses. i even tried, which is laughable because i might have a total of 20 minutes Mac experience, and came across an issue when trying to get MAMP running MAMP is Mac, Apache, MySQL, and PHP and [...]

the other day we gave a tour of some of our virtual world science activities and usually a visitor likes what they see and “understand” how OpenSim stuff is created the understand part is something i bet everyone in our community can identify with whenever you have been in a situation where you are explaining what [...]

thanks to Beacara of sim-on-a-stick art catalogue fame, i am thrilled to get some links out to the latest version of the awesome New World Studio automatic OSGrid region launcher! windows | mac | linux and here’s the facebook link for reporting any issues and easy instructions =)

…or maybe a stylized/cartoonized USB stick with a cute globe (or city or OpenSim logo) on it, to represent SOAS. Not that I don’t like Ener’s logos *swoon!* this is very crude (2 clips arts stuck together), but maybe a stylized version of it: Maybe with a PINK globe ;p

i don’t know much about the viewers out there and my viewer of choice is still Imprudence 1.3.1! i’ve used Zen and love it for photos plus it has sim-on-a-stick in its grid manager =) thanks to Sarge of Excelsior Station i can easily learn about eleven viewers he did tests with this week (dang, [...]

everyone loves logos and everyone thinks they are easy to make. most people (including me) want to put too much “stuff” on a logo. too much stuff makes a logo unusable at very small sizes and/or in black and white like you might see on a business card of letterhead for example, the Nike logo [...]

i’m a total, self-proclaimed virtual world hermit and have no idea where to start exploring to see other people’s work well thanks to a nice InWorldz listing by Daniel Voyager, that may soon change! thanks Daniel! =) also be sure to check on Wizard Gynoid‘s incredibly creative work in InWorldz (like below)

Google Docs are pretty powerful and thanks to Maria at Hypergrid Business mentioning her use of them, we have been messing around with them for Enclave Harbour. in a post a few weeks back about having information kiosks, i showed an example of pulling in the Google Doc at the very bottom of this post. since [...]

blah blah blah, crane this, power plant that  =p i asked subQuark to create an example of how my nifty tower crane could be used as part of a science field trip dealio and here it is. one funny thing to note is that i thought the counterweights (what his post is about) looked fine [...]

i’ve been taking my time in making a nuclear power plant (after putting it off a year!) and it still needs a lot of work. a week or two ago i mentioned an issue i had in wanting to show the main parts of a nuclear plant which is inside an airtight concrete containment building. [...]

Hexagon 2.5 is a 3D modelling application from Daz3D that has Second Life sculptie export built right in! that’s a huge plus because you just export the TGA file Hexagon is a real 3D tool that works with polygons (meshes) but what caught my attention (after Sarge bonked me on the head and told me about [...]

i’ve written about it a few times and continue to love the Space Navigator mouse. i wish i had gotten one years ago when Torley first blogged about it (two great Torley vids below) the Space Navigator lets you fly a camera very smoothly for machinima and i’d think it’s pretty much a necessity for [...]