Dancing at the Odd Ball

RL things (both errands and fun) kept me out of SL almost entirely yesterday, but I did dive in just before bed to chill out a bit, and TPd over to Tuna Oddfellow’s Odd Ball, which takes place in this wild complex of nested megaprims with rotating and flickering textures and sometimes particles. Quite [...]

Against “blingtard”

So can we not say “blingtard” anymore? I’ve come across it in a couple of different weblogs or feeds by people that I generally like and respect lately, and it sort of made me wince. And since I have a weblog now and am required by Federal Law to post my every little [...]

Learning to love DRM

It occurs to me that Linden Labs have done two very interesting and perhaps world-changing things with the SL infrastructure:
Making micropayments work: at the current exchange rates, one Linden Dollar is a bit less than 0.4 US cents (that’s four tenths of a cent, four one-thousandths of a dollar). And people are doing transactions [...]