I had the delightful privilege of DJing for Baron Klaus Wulfenbach’s birthday party in Steelhead on Sunday evening. Behind the cut you’ll find the playlist I came up with. There were a number of very delightful discoveries for me, some at the request of consular staff, others which I found from my colleagues at Radio Riel or discovered as I sought out the requests.
Continue reading “A birthday for the baron”
Music of the early aeronautical age
Sheet music covers and lovely recordings of music of the early aeronautical age.
(hat tip to Robert from Abney Park on the Steamfashion livejournal group)
Fighting cancer
The relay portion of the Relay for Life in Second Life has now begun. For the next 24 hours, people will be celebrating, learning, mourning, virtually walking, and yes, raising money for the American Cancer Society.
If you have not yet made a contribution, you can do so in Second Life by paying any donation kiosk (and there’s a Team Elizabeth Blackwell kiosk at our team campsite).
You can also contribute using a credit card at my page on the ACS fundraising pages.
Social media
A wonderfully succint definition by CoyoteAngel Dimsum on Twitter:
social media are “presence by other means”, and that includes Twitter, IM, and SecondLife
Trying out Twinity
I’ve been trying out Twinity, and they have a contest that will start on Thursday. Voting will last for a week on locations that have been decorated over the last two weeks for the contest.
For all you clever people
Jay Lake (author of Mainspring) has proposed creating a steampunk abecedary:
Let’s play a bloggy game. Per the above, put your suggestions for a steampunk abecedary in comments — next week I’ll distill them out, and we’ll have a poll for the coolest/funniest, with hardback copies of Escapement [ Powell’s | Amazon ] as prizes.
Only two suggestions up as of this evening, but hurry on over, I’m not sure how long he’ll be waiting.
Multiculturalism
Virtual worlds have the potential to create real and deep connections across many boundaries. Please consider voting to add Arabic language to SL.