Weekend Whimsy
1. Avatar Orchestra Metaverse
New World Notes has an excellent story on this orchestra.
2. ADABOT, now at the institute
3. The Edge Eden Project
Basic Account residents – check your credit card statement
As per Linden Lab’s notification, they’ve incorrectly billed a number of basic (free) account holders. If you hold a free account you might like to check your credit card statement.
That said, given how wonderful Second Life’s stability has been in the past week you might like to start paying for your free account
Melbourne 2051
Victoria University have a burgeoning presence in Second Life and one of their projects is Melbourne 2051. It’s a small but fascinating build revolving around a segment of Melbourne in, you guessed it, 2051. It’s been created by the 2007 Interactive Storytelling Class (Advanced Diploma of Multimedia – Games) at the University.
The associated website gives [...]
Another rolling restart underway
The fun continues on the grid, this time to bring the server code up to version 1.18.6 for the next browser roll-out.
After last week’s login issues, its remained a fairly bumpy ride. How are the frustration levels going for you at present?
One year of SLOz
A year ago tomorrow, we posted our first comments on SLOz. We launched in the midst of the mainstream media frenzy around Second Life that brought so many new residents. When we started out, we knew that no-one was covering events in Second Life from an Australian perspective on a daily basis. What we didn’t [...]
Freedom Expressed
Freedom Xpress is one of the more recent memorials to appear in Second Life. Its subject is freedom of expression and the journalists who have been killed for doing their job.
The organisers of the memorial, Dakila Lacava and Galilla Sinatra, describe their motivations:
“Freedom Xpress is a place of tribute to those who have fallen in [...]
World Stock Exchange facing legal problems?
The Second Life Herald are running a story on the Midas Bank saga, alleging that Midas have done some legal investigations around their issues with the World Stock Exchange, run by Australian Luke Connell (LukeConnell Vandeverre).
If the issues aren’t resolved and things do go legal, it’ll provide a fascinating test-case for the status of finance [...]
