Facing the harm
The SL Herald has run an article entitled ‘What’s the Harm?’, mirroring the name of the exhibit covered by that and this story. The exhibition is essentially an onslaught of images depicting sexual ageplay and some extreme fetishes within Second Life, most sourced from the SL search feature.
It’s powerful and has already engendered a [...]
Easiest way to get latest version of Second Life
Linden Lab have announced a new section of their web presence that auto-detects your operating system and offers you the latest version of the Second Life browser software.
Get Second Life is its name. If you get sick of the interminable wait for downloading new versions from within the browser itself, this is a welcome and [...]
ABC and SLCN meet
I’ve had a heads-up that the ABC’s Lise Robbiani is making an appearance on SLCN’s Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe. It’s showing at 6pm SLT on the 26th August (11am Sunday 27th AEST).
Lise is heavily involved with ABC Island and both SLCN and Paisley Beebe are Australian.
Weekend Whimsy
Each Friday we provide a sampling of content generated by SL users and posted on services like YouTube:
1. Retro Second Life from 2001
2. Second life WOW Parody
3. Second Life Floating Funhouse Walkthrough
Interview – Kim Pasternak (Kim Flintoff)
Kim Pasternak is one of Australia’s passionate education users of Second Life and runs the AusSLERs site. We caught up via email to discuss education and more.
Lowell Cremorne:Tell us a little about your educational background
Kim Pasternak: OK. I started out with the sciences, Chemistry especially, when I first left school and for a variety [...]
Virtual Africa
Many years ago a group of musicians got together and in the name of social justice, put on a world-wide concert called Live Aid. It was aimed at alleviating famine in Ethiopia.
Sadly, little has changed on the continent of Africa when it comes to the tribulations that befall it. There’s a very real attempt to [...]
Get your face into SL
Avatar Island is the home of the CyberExtruder, a fully automated process that merges your RL face with your SL one.
The easiest way to explain the process is to reproduce the notecard you receive when you lay on the operating table:
“Thank you for choosing the CyberExtruder face creation service for you avatar. This simple [...]
