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 [...]

it was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci’s birthday a few weeks back – happy 560th! yesterday’s post was a heavy-duty one but you who commented put it in perspective and, like everything in life, there is a balance somewhere, even if it doesn’t seem so Leonardo is well known for his art like the [...]

there’s constant battling (no pun intended) as to whether first-person shooter games or the violence we see on TV affects us and society as a whole my own opinion is that a “normal” adult won’t go psycho and shoot up a building because they play World of Warcraft or do role playing in a virtual [...]

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 [...]

it’s been a while since i posted glassdoor reviews on Linden Lab and now there are 37 reviews online. you should read these with your own grain of salt and i have gone through the process of creating an account on glassdoor and it does take a certain amount of effort (more involved than flaming [...]

some virtual world peeps use Google SketchUp and it’s a very nice tool for doing architectural renderings. i use it in my day job to make campus maps but have yet to try it as a mesh tool for OpenSim today it was announced that Google SketchUp will have a new home with a company [...]

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 [...]

the Corsair Survivor is still the official sim-on-a-stick stick and i had the chance to test out a brand new 32 gig one. they look identical and the 32 gig is at Amazon for $38 USD (suggested list is $49.99). that’s a great price considering that the 16 gig one was $37 last october so getting [...]

i was deeply flattered when Maria at Hypergrid Business called me a celebrity and that “You can’t buy that kind of publicity.” the true value in me, or anyone else, endorsing something is if you are seen as honest and genuine. i’m really into OpenSim and i blab on and on about it. i am [...]

Synergy is two or more things functioning together to produce a result not independently obtainable. The term synergy comes from the Greek word synergia συνεργία from synergos, συνεργός, meaning “working together”. (wikipedia) one of the top selling points when pitching virtual worlds to decision makers has been the collaborative nature of virtual worlds typically, collaboration means [...]

yesterday’s blog post of NPCs and your avatar name got me wound up about gender again. i’ve written on this many times and today’s political climate in the US is heavily gender charged. that’s hardly new, unfortunately, and the entire world has been caught up in gender for all of humankind. there’s a lot of [...]

back in the media frenzy days of Second Life there was lots of discussion on what it means to be an avatar and about real identity. facebook brings this to a point a few times a year when they delete fakey accounts (like mine with 4,000 friends!), and last year the identity thing came up [...]