I noticed this morning on the Alt-Zoom Studios site that September’s Take5 shorts have been posted. September’s theme was “Unhealthy”. Yay, machinima!
Posts Categorized: Second Life
LSL Wiki back up at LSLwiki.com
It’s true, the LSL Wiki has returned, now hosted at LSLwiki.com. This is the complete database as it existed on SecondLife.com as of the moment it was taken down. Your logins are all the same. There’s still a couple redirect problems I haven’t cleaned out yet, but it works. I’ll finish fixing that stuff tomorrow. […]
Emotional cues in virtual spaces
While frequently used to great effect in prose, text is a notoriously poor medium for conveying the emotional metadata humans rely on for face-to-face conversation. How do we know exactly how to interpret someone else’s words, stripped of their emotional context? What was intended as a simple request for information may be taken by one […]
LSL Wiki relocating
Due to the recent security issues affecting Second Life, the LSL Wiki will no longer be hosted on the Second Life website I’ll post additional updates here next week when it relocates to its new home at LSLwiki.com. In the meantime, a few users have a backup available here.
Exploit reporting stats
On the Linden Blog, Brent Linden discusses the experimental exploit-reporting system launched in the wake of Cristiano Midnight’s discovery of (and subsequent suspension for publicizing) an exploit in which it was possible for any user to do Very Bad Things. Under the experimental system, Brent is now paged every time someone used the SL bug […]
Sally Linden on the “Residents” statistic
On the Linden Blog today, Sally Linden writes: There has lately been much confusion and speculation surrounding the “Residents†statistic on the home page of http://secondlife.com. This post is an effort to clear that up. She goes on to say: …there was an internal conversation about the number we were reporting, what the Residents thought it represented, […]
Verified Accounts and Trust Metrics — Part 1
Part 1: International Users Two months ago, Second Life creator Linden Lab removed the credit card requirement from the account creation process, allowing users without a credit card to join SL for the first time. While the move was met with alarm and opposition among many members of the SL community, it was part of […]