But just go vote before Linden Research breaks all your no-mod skins.
O.M.G.
I decided to browse some of the other blogs on the Second Effects blog list. And I discovered that I should be reading hair blogs for more laughter in my life!
The Rococo Fantastico style costs $450L for a color changing, bow changing, flower changing, style changing wig. The color choices include: honey blond, light blond, platinum, strawberry, copper, fiery red, dark auburn, burgundy, black, blue black, off black, grey, brunette, coffee, light brown, dark brown, green, blue, lavender, pink.
You really must go see the photos of Rococo Fantastico.
“and drugs” ? !
Taser Sues Second Life Virtual World Creator Over Gun Sales.
“All of the defendants that sell virtual weaponry like plaintiff’s real ones, under the mark Taser for use in the Second Life programs and grids, also sell adult-only explicit images and scenes” and drugs, according to the complaint.
First, I don’t understand why trademark infringement would be anything other than a straight yes/no question. Either someone is using your trademark or not. Why should other products sold in the same store make any difference?
But notice that the “and drugs” is not a direct quote of the complaint, it is something that Bloomberg made an editorial decision to include. Even though (I trust) the complaint may claim that drugs are sold by Linden Research and Virtualtrade, it is irresponsible to report this as though it is possible.
And finally, I find the idea of tasers far more disreputable than either pornography or drugs.
“Real” life
Tateru Nino has a trenchant post on Massively: Exposing human nature through virtual environments.
That virtual environments, like Second Life, manifestly have not and do not rapidly devolve into random and uncontrollable anarchy is an interesting commentary on how little we know, and how much we assume about human nature.
And more broadly, we are who we are, even when we’re pretending to be something else.
Also of note from Tateru on her personal blog is her decision to honor her time and effort at the keyboard: Breaking a habit: No more RL for me.
Beta testing with Pony Linden
At the end of my work day, I read a tweet about the Lindens doing a stress test on the beta grid (aditi). It was past the time stated, but I went anyway. w00t! Lots of lag. Lots of walking and TPing hither and yon. Lots of touching scripted objects across sim boundaries. Some amazing, amazing avatars. And Pony Linden!
Second Life reading material
Enough to last two or three lifetimes, in fact! Second Effects has refined the list of Active Second Life Blogs, 2009:
After last week’s update, we received so much feedback and so many suggestions that we have prepared yet another even more extensive list of Second Life blogs. But this will be the last time.
Kudos to all involved. What a lot of work went into this task.
Mwahahaha!
/me snorts tea out my nose. I especially love the unrezzed eyelashes. But where’s the eye bling?