Almustafa, the chosen and the beloved, who was a dawn onto his own day, had waited twelve years in the city of Orphalese for his ship that was to return and bear him back to the isle of his birth. And in the twelfth year, on the seventh day of Ielool, the month of reaping, he [...]

As I’m tired, and need to get a short nap in before work today, this will be mostly photos.  But the photos will say most of the words here, aside from this – Beyond the fact that tomorrow will be Memorial Day in the United States RL as well as observed by many USA Residents [...]

By the grace of Her Ladyship Eva Bellambi, Lady Chief of the Clan Bellambi, Patron of the Order of the Red Rose, & etc.: Lady Eva Bellambi is pleased to invite you to a celebration of the Celtic holy night of Beltane, to be held in Winterfell Anodyne on the evening of April 30 at [...]

Botgirl Questi announced  that a new virtual art exhibit, the Caerleon Museum of Identity, will be opening on Saturday, October 2, at 12:00.  (Her press release was not specific, but I would assume that this is SLT.)  The announcement included a video clip: You can read the full text of the press release at Botgirl’s [...]

Gee, I’m offering avatar girls free money, and nobody’s taking me up on it…? I published an article on a little contest I’m running for your best choices for red-carpet-worthy Second Life gowns, leading up to the Academy Awards on March 7.  The response?  Well, I’m having to go out and hunt for contest entries, [...]

Wallace Linden kicked off an excellent article in the Big Blog yesterday (Jan. 22) that can be summed up with this question:  just how “identified” are you? The two following paragraphs seem to have the nub of Wallace’s point here.  First: …To me, there’s nothing virtual at all about my presence in various online contexts. [...]

The 2010 Award Season is officially upon us with the handout of the Golden Globes last night, and it’s time to ask again:  if you were invited to the Academy Awards this year, what would you walk the red carpet in?  If you want to change clothes before going in to the Governors’ Ball, what [...]

Second Effects wrote yesterday of a concern that I’ve heard of before on occasion:  the retention rate of new users, so that they become old users like you and me.  I’ve no reason to doubt their horrendous calculation of 1%, aside from it maybe being hearsay; but no matter the true retention figure, it truly [...]

Thanks to Hamlet Au and New World Notes. Down 9/10 of the way in his Big Blog meditation on Second Life’s place in the Internet culture over the past year and decade, Mark Kingdon gives a list of things planned for 2010.  Among these, possibly lesser in importance in business terms — but an earthquake [...]

Lots. Want proof?  Just a taste?  Check out Peter Stindberg’s article and photo (NSFW!!), based on a similar project at Tumblr.