Skip to content

Rikomatic

Musings on Dance, Food, Geek Stuff

Menu
  • Follow Me on Instagram
  • My Professional Site RangerRik.com
  • Yehoodi.com Archive
  • Every Roller Rink in California (Map)
Menu

New additions at virtual Capitol Hill; a quick peek at Presidential hopefuls HQs in Second Life

Posted on March 22, 2007 by

Capitolhill_004

Tonight I dropped in on virtual Capitol Hill (teleport SLURL) to check out the new interactive tools the owners have put in place.  As much as I admire what the Clear Ink guys have done creating the faux government sim, I have been discouraged by the lack of interest in the sim, mostly due to very few activities or interactive features present.  It looks like that is slowly changing as we get closer to election time. 

Hit the jump for details on the new interactive tools and other US political activity in-world…

Capitolhill_002

To the east of the main capitol building is a neat scripted billboard created by Kiwini Oe of Clear Ink.  If you get close to it and type into chat a zip code, the billboard pulls up the name of your local representive in Congress.  You can click on different buttons to get links to the congressperson’s website, address, email, and congrespedia entry.  For some reason it wouldn’t take any New York zip codes that I tried, but worked fine for California and Maryland.  Maybe someday the billboard will include the inworld landmarks for your representative.

Capitolhill_004_2

Floating above the Capitol building itself are a couple of screens playing some historic public service videos about the US government.  The one I watched was a very hokey dramatization of what America would be like if we had no Congress.

Capitolhill_001

Even cooler, to the west of the capitol building is another billboard with in-world landmarks to help you find unofficial and official in-world headquarters of candidates for the US presidency.  Only four are available now, all democrats.  Presumably more will show up as the field broadens.  The four are:

Obama

Barack Obama (teleport SLURL)

Hilary

Hilary Clinton (teleport SLURL)
John Edwards (sorry no picture available at this time, but here’s the teleport SLURL)

Wesleyclark

and Wesley Clark (teleport SLURL) .

There’s also an anti-Rudy Guiliani smear site that I refuse to put up the SLURL to because it’s so inane and uninformative.  You can easily search for it if you really want to see it. But trust me, there’s nothing of interest there even if you hate Guiliani.

All-in-all, Second Life is becoming an interesting place for political avatars like me to hang out.  Looking forward to more in-world builds and events as we get closer to the elections.

1 thought on “New additions at virtual Capitol Hill; a quick peek at Presidential hopefuls HQs in Second Life”

  1. flirten hilfe says:
    May 15, 2010 at 4:52 am

    Good stuff, It might just work, although it seems easier when you have a plan.
    Good Bye

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

A History of the Jazz Split

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfLr9YmMJU

Recent Posts

  • A Magical Visit to the Snoopy Home Ice Rink and the Charles M. Shultz Museum!
  • Thoughts on Learning and Skating
  • The Voice (poem)
  • Toy Train in a Tin
  • Bucket List Complete: Visiting All the Disney Theme Parks!

Categories

  • Books
  • Cats
  • Civil Society
  • Creative Writing
  • Dancing / Music
  • Education
  • Family
  • Film
  • Food and Drink
  • General
  • Health
  • Information Society
  • Machinima
  • Media Reform
  • Music
  • New York
  • Politics
  • quotation
  • Real World Places in SL
  • Science
  • SF Bay Area
  • Television
  • The Spirit
  • Travel
  • Uncategorized
  • United Nations
  • Virtual Worlds
  • Web/Tech

Tags

b-boy (76) breakdance (51) breaking (26) brooklyn (36) charleston (11) competition (11) dance (17) dancing (30) documentary (15) education (21) festival (12) frankie95 (16) frankie manning (52) frim fram (10) fundraiser (10) global kids (70) hip-hop (31) human rights (11) inaug09 (11) jazz (12) ken swift (10) lindy hop (144) lindyhop (23) lowcarb (18) lxd (11) macarthur foundation (12) machinima (22) memorial (14) mermaidparade (22) mtv (13) performance (16) poetry (11) popping (11) quaker (27) recipe (38) rockclimbing (16) second life (81) shim sham (15) skating (70) soul music (14) swing (52) swing dance (45) virtual world (19) virtual worlds (29) yehoodi (46)
© 2025 Rikomatic | Powered by Superbs Personal Blog theme