Iris Ophelia, writing for New World Notes, has done an excellent piece on why eyes are so important to the well-groomed avatar’s look in Second Life.  From her story: A good set of eyes are equally as important as a good skin, but because eyes are so small (and because we stare at the back [...]

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 [...]

In case you haven’t read this already, click through to New World Notes and read this comment by Desmond Shang, the “Guvnah” of Caledon, on why the loss of regions in Second Life may be a good thing for the Grid, instead of a tale of woe, doom ‘n gloom.  I’ve wondered myself if SL [...]

New World Notes had a big budget of news today, and I’d encourage you to go and read it all.  (That’s why I provide the link [grin].)  But the biggest story today is the announcement Ham discovered in the comments on Cubey Terra’s blog.  Another avatar, Cheshyr Pontchartrain, has purchased the leasehold and goodwill to [...]

Mercy, today seems to be a big day for news.  New World Notes reports that the lovely animated globe map Hamlet Au saw while visiting Linden Lab’s offices back in June, a map that reports concurrency of users, is being worked on for availability to Residents.  Rod Humble mentioned this to Daniel Voyager, according to [...]

Instead, it appears that the eminent Mr. Ballmer in Redmond has purchased Vivaty, another virtual world.  Hamlet Au speculates that this might be the source of the rumors which shot through the Plitterverse (that’s both Twitter and Plurk) a few days ago that Microsoft was bidding for the purchase of Linden Lab. So, it appears [...]

…bright-bladed Philip, colorful of codpiece Maker of worlds, defender from doom Far did he ride on his steed, fine and furry Smiting the emerald-green beast…. (snort, start, glancing down at the copy of Beowulf in my hands) Wow, what a dream….  Well, I wonder what Ham Au has to say lately…? (snapping on computer, bringing [...]

We’ve had about a day to mull over the news that Mark Kingdon has been given the axe as CEO of Linden Lab, and that Philip Rosedale has resumed the direct control of his brainchild, at least for the interim.  (New World Notes article; Rosedale statement)  As of publishing time, a New World Notes open [...]

This discussion is based upon reports from Hamlet Au at New World Notes. ===== I haven’t touched the recent news from Linden Lab until now, mainly because I haven’t been sure what to think about the entire thing.  I’m still not sure yet, even after the passage of a week of time.  But it’s part [...]

Thanks to Hamlet Au and New World Notes…. Sam Lowry, a French Resident of Second Life, did the above machinima, which I discovered at Ham Au’s article.  (There’s an excellent stream of comments going on there currently.) Sam celebrates some of the nicer builds on the Grid, such as Omega Point.  (Again, if your interested, [...]