Writing from Hoover, Alabama. News comes through Reuters of a magnitude 6 earthquake in Italy today. I know at least one Italian Resident, Pier, the master of the Koinup photo hosting service; and there are many others. You might want to check your own contacts, and pray for their safety. There will probably be a [...]

It’s my Rezday!, originally uploaded by Strawberry Singh. It’s Strawberry Singh’s 5th rezz day.  Berry, as she’s known to all and sundry, has achieved a notable degree of seniority with 5 years in Second Life — model, fashion blogger, photographer and beautiful person inside the avatar.  The pictures of her above show the progression of [...]

I have. I swear to you, hand to heaven, this picture has not taken a trip through GIMP or any other program; it’s natural, taken with the Windows 7 Snipping Tool and just shrunk down to fit the blog.  I was walking between stores in The Tides region of the Fantasy Faire, when I saw [...]

“The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.” – Robert Frost The unofficial poet laureate of New England was right in the essence of what he wrote; but there is physical beauty that endures if not lasts forever, and that can be found in architecture as well as the more portable arts.  For [...]

Ruriko Bracken, a Japanese Second Life Resident and a lovely model and photographer, takes a break now and then from the virtual world for some Real Life.  She’s currently back in, and most welcome in both her roles. In this feature, found on her own Japanese-language blog, Ruriko Style, Ruri-chan does a pair of excellent [...]

Girl Wonder Speaks…about Second Life®: The Most Interesting Avatar in the World. Strangely, she isn’t drinking Dos Equis…. Thanks to Hamlet Au

Hamlet Au comes through again at New World Notes with the perfect excuse for any situation:  you took an arrow in the knee, and you’re stuck there.  (Ouch, but grin)  It’s a mesh arrow attachment that makes it look like you took one for John Wayne at Fort Apache.  Have a look, and get the [...]

A short note before I head off for RL work.  Many of you know that a Crowdfunder campaign has been set up for KirstenLee Cinquetti to give her the wherewithal to keep working on Kirstens Viewer 1. Crowdfunder is the site that allows you to contribute toward goals for financing projects, of course; the best [...]

Apple has announced that Steve Jobs, their former CEO and the man who took Steve Wozniak’s hobbyist idea and helped usher in the era of the home computer, has died from his pancreatic cancer.  He was 56 years old. I like to think that Radio Shack had something to do with the age of the [...]

  While I was not able to make the preview of this year’s BURN2, others have.  Inara Pey has an in-depth run-through of what the playa will look like, complete with photos, at her blog. BURN2 opens to the public on October 1.  The Burning of the Man and Burning of the Temple events are [...]