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The Neil Young Archives

Zak Claxton’s Neil Young Archives is a compact but effective tour of the artist’s work. You can listen to some of Young’s work whilst browsing the visual discography or replicas of Young’s favorite instruments. Zak Claxton’s take on it all: “Neil Young is a personal favorite musician and songwriter of mine, as well as someone [...]

The Great Barrier Reef and Whitsundays

The Great Barrier Reef in Second Life is part of a wider group of islands including the Whitsundays. Australian SL resident Sebastian Oxide summarises his aims with the islands: “I hope to offer fair land deals for Aussies but also for all SL residents who seek a nice, “no-drama” regions. I am also working on [...]

Greenies are good enough

The Greenies House is one of those builds that comes from nowhere and just astounds you with its originality, attention to detail and pure whimsy. We don’t want to take too much away from experiencing it yourself, but the pictures say it all: Builds like this define the opportunities virtual worlds provide. Thanks to SL [...]

Garden for the Missing

The Garden for the Missing is a simple but powerful presence on the mainland Remora sim. Motivated by the tragic end of a missing persons case in her neighbourhood, owner Ronnie Rhode set up her presence. She states she’s been passionate about the missing persons issue since 2002 but only recently joined Second Life. The [...]

Location guide for new users

Tateru Nino from SL Insider has formulated a brilliant list of locations for new SL users to visit. It’s well worth spending some time checking out the locations mentioned.

The A.N.Z.A.C Recruit Training Centre

On Island Medusado sits a parcel of land titled A.N.Z.A.C RECRUIT TRAINING CENTRE & HEADQUARTERS. It’s a presence obviously still under construction but essentially it’s a tall block containing black and white cartoons and sketches relating to World War 1 and 2, a multi-room ‘barracks’ and a number of other storeys yet to be completed. [...]

The city sims – where’s Melbourne?

Knightsbridge, Liverpool (recently relocated from a mainland sim to an island) and Amsterdam are just three cities that have their SL replicas, of varying accuracy and purpose. Other city areas replicated include Times Square in New York (currently in development) and Paris (circa 1900). They all have their appeal, but I’m wondering when someone will [...]

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