Beacara made wonderful use of sim-on-a-stick for a 21st century art catalogue and supplemented her OpenSim art gallery with additional “stick” applications she effectively made a studio-on-a-stick (no, i won’t be registering studiononastick.com but i might patent it! – seems as legit as what SpotOn3D claims to patent) =p Beacara added the portable stick versions [...]
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add this to your electric camper/boat dealio
last week i posted about that nifty camper boat that looks more at home in the virtual world than the real world and today i saw this nifty thing that would make the trailer complete! it’s also electric and also the kind of thing you’d expect in the virtual world but not the real the [...]
real world sometimes nuttier than virtual
this looks like something someone would build in Second Life or OpenSim and then get criticized for making something unrealistic and kooky! me loves it! & me needs it! =) ps to OpenSim devs – hurry with BulletSim =D
10 years and 4,418,853 hits later
before Second Life launched, this was one of the first viral things to sweep the web way back in 2001. if you don’t remember this then it won’t be funny or fill you with nostalgia. for those who were there it’ll make you feel old! this was before the term “viral” became mainstream and when [...]
do you wanna quit your job?
this has nothing to do with virtual worlds, unless you are thinking of quitting Linden Lab my new hero! =) http://thechive.com/2010/08/10/girl-quits-her-job-on-dry-erase-board-emails-entire-office-33-photos/
You are what you eat, err, what your avatar looks like
i love being an avatar. many people love what their avatar means to them. for most people, there is a deep connection with that little you running around in-world (ener <– often runs in circles, hands in the air, screaming) =D research reveals what you and i already know (gee, imagine that!) Researchers at Concordia [...]
l’ascenseur de Québec virtual world edition
Québec is a neat city in that it has an old town (basse-ville) and the newer city (québec is over 400 years old). separating the two are the cliffs of the st. lawrence river and a steep climb up ever since i was little, the “ascenseur” has been a fixture of quebec city and an iconic symbol. [...]
opensim 0.7 now out
opensimulator just released version 0.7 and it seems to have several very good fixes. i am not sure what half of them mean, but the core developers have been doing a lot of work. our fave coder (cuz someone is crushing on jcc) predicted that we may see version 1.0 of OpenSim this year. i [...]
where is Philip Rosedale today
last week we wondered about Second Life’s biggest private estate owner, but what about Second Life’s creator – Philip Rosedale? the last we heard of him was a new company he started called lovemachine the lovemachine blog is a bit sporadic so it’s hard to judge what is going on (heck, this blog would be [...]

























































