Visions of Japan Bound together by a common interest for Japan, the friends and photographers Gina Glimmer and Seikatsu Koba opens their exhibition “Japan” this weekend.
The banking ban, seven months later All is not lost even though many linden dollars were. However, tumultuous the financial sector in Second Life has been even before the ban, SL stock exchanges continue to offer services and opportunities. The WSE, often cited as the reason for the ban in the first place, came back two weeks ago, with a whole new plan.
The tale of my L$5,000 I finally updated myself on the linden dollars I invested on the morning before the afternoon Linden Lab banned the banks.
Catch the Peace Train this weekend Starting the 15th and through the 17th, an international festival of peace will be held in Second Life. More than 75 events will be held on over 20 sims.
Building a better mousetrap (UI) The winners of Dusan Writer's contest to build a more user-friendly Second Life UI were announced yesterday at a special Metanomics session.
Virtual world interoperability As virtual worlds proliferate, Linden Lab explores interoperability, but is it the sort of interoperability that users want?
A bottle to behold In the hidden sim next to AM Radio’s ”The Refuge and The Expansion”, you find a wonder by Miki Gymnast.
AM Radio expands For the first time in his career, acclaimed builder AM Radio gets two whole sims to lay out his works. «The Refuge & The Expansion» is a sequel to one of his earlier works.
All those unlucky tinies The SL artist Bryn Oh has made sculptures based on the rhymes in Edward Gorey’s «The Gashlycrumb Tinies». An exhibition not for the faint of heart.
Teen Grid: a disadvantaged grid The Teen Grid is a dying place. Businesses are closing, popular places are dying, many people are quitting, and it doesn't seem that this trend will end anytime soon.
Some Lively advice There are probably 1,000s of reasons why Google’s launch of their virtual space “Lively” will not impact Linden Lab, which could be why we all heard a collective sigh of relief emanating from San Francisco, USA Tuesday, and then received a loving letter from M Linden on the official blog on Wednesday.
It won't be "Lively" "...in the earliest wave of pioneers in any new disruptive platform, the marginal and the dispossessed are over represented, not the sole constituents...but people who feel they don't fit, who have nothing left to lose or who were impelled by some kind of dream, who may be outsiders to whatever mainstream they are coming from, all come and arrive early in disproportionate numbers...It is the way Second Life has been settled." -Mitch Kapor, July 2008
Avatarian News 3 - The Pendulum of Sagely Refinement Starting this week, the Avatarian News will be printing teachings from The Avatars of Change?s Prelate, Taras Balderdash, on the Avatarian Way.
Posted January 15, 2007
Avatarian News Issue Two News by, for, and about, The Avatars of Change, a monastic order that collects charity and promotes interfaith discussion in Second Life.
