After salivating for months over these beautiful katanas being sold in Samurai Island, I finally decided tonight to get one. 800 Linden Dollars later, I was a happy owner of a Musashi Eternal sword, swinging it around like the Star Wars kid, when I ran into several swordfighters who proceeded to cut me to ribbons….
Category: Virtual Worlds
The sad state of real world politics in Second Life
My buddy Hamlet over at New World Notes blogged today about the explosion in French political activity in Second Life over the past month, with not one but TWO political parties setting up headquarters in the virtual world. Both the far-far right Front National and the Socialist Party have pitched their pixelated tents in SL,…
Diversity festival coming to SL in March!
Verum Vacirca and a cast of volunteers are throwing a Second Life festival to celebrate diversity in all its forms in March in Han Loso (teleport SLURL.) "Diversity 2007 – Wandering the World" is a project to promote diversity, inspire discussion and educate. A series of classes on various diversity issues has already kicked off…
ABC News on US Congress in Second Life
I got a teeny-tiny quote in an ABCnews.com article on the opening of the 110th Congress in Second Life by Steve Grove : "It was kind of surreal," says Rik Panganiban, a blogger who was in the audience. That’s 1 second out of my 15 minutes of fame, I guess. Not a bad piece on…
Send in your snippets to SL Machinima mash-up on February 17
My pal Milki Unknown passed on to me the info on a cool machinima mash-up being organized by Salazar Jack and Osprey Therien at 2PM, February 17 at Cowell Amphitheatre. Here’s how they describe the exercise: Each person sends a 10-20 second snippet of SL machinima to machinimanight@gmail.com. Salazar Jack will retrieve the snippets and…
Meet me at the Casbah: Pics from Virtual Morocco
About a month ago I visited the Casablanca sim (teleport SLURL), a jaw-dropping recreation of Morocco, from the souk market to the mosque to the detailed tilework. Created as an initiative of faculty and students at Johnson and Wales University in partnership with the Moroccan ministry of tourism, it’s a must see build. I took…
What the Dorgan-Snowe Net Neutrality bill means for gamers and virtual worlders
Senators Olympia Snowe (R-ME) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) have recently introduced the Internet Freedom Preservation Act in an effort to legislate the principle of Network Neutrality. The bill would prevent any broadband internet service provider from "privileging bits" and blocking traffic on the basis of Internet content, application, or service, codifying Net Neutrality as part…
Grey like me – living for a day in another digital skin
In response to dga Kymoon’s cool suggestion, I’ve changed my skin color for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It will be interesting living in another skin for a day. I doubt I will be forced to teleport to the back of the bus or face any other discrimination. Still, a cool idea. I considered making…
SL-machinima parody of Star Trek
My buddy Frank Dellario (Illbixby Cerveau in SL) helped film this hilarious Star Trek machinima created for a keynote by President and CEO of CBS, Les Moonves, at the Consumer Electronics Show. Here’s the higher res version (much better than YouTube). Also reported in the Daily Graze, 3pointD and The SL Insider.
Darfur, Open Source and 12-sim Monsters — just another crazy day in virtuality
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue. It was a crazy flippin’ day in SL to be sure. At 2PM, I beamed into the Infinite Mind sim to catch Mia Farrow, John Heffernan and several other notable personages talking about the deteriorating situation in Darfur. Ms. Farrow spoke passionately about the…