Dhughan here, recommending Music For Builders. Whilst messing about with floating lanterns that fell 500 metres and buried themselves in abandoned mines in Steelhead St Helens, I listened to an excellent programme, hosted live by Carter Denja. Radio Riel is essential to maintaining one’s cool while excavating down to the Second Life water table to find physical objects set to float… wait for it! on the surface. My other floating lantern, which Miss Bug made in a class project, floats so enthusiastically that it would go into space if not constrained by a ceiling. Clearly, more study (my take, break,…
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Yes, yes, Dhughan here, very slack of me to disappear like that. I happened to be very busy avoiding as much work as possible during the holidays. Back again in good old Steelhead Shanghai, and there certainly are interesting things happpening this week. —- Chinese New Year 2012: Year of the Dragon – Breathing Fire into the New Year Chinese New Year is the longest and most important celebration in the Chinese calendar. The Chinese year 4710 begins on Jan. 23, 2012. Chinese months are reckoned by the lunar calendar, with each month beginning on the darkest day. New Year…
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Ooh! Fun events to entertain and distract the discerning Steampunk resident: R.S.V.P. to Mr TotalLunar Eclipse; be there or he’ll eat you and stomp on your house, in that order. That may seem unnecessarily harsh, to destroy your home after you’re dead, but dragons are notoriously hot-tempered and really hold a grudge. Better mark your cslendars, I’m just sayin’. Also, too: SQUIRRELL!!1! Link: Eclipse: Chinese New Years in Steelhead 2012
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Many funs had last night, dancing at Lacamas Reading Room/Cafe Wellstone in #SecondLife I made some dumb Occupy signs to wear. # Trying #Firestorm again (sorry so late) RT @InaraPey "Blog post: "Firestorm 3.2 Release: In-depth" – http://t.co/dVmluLXh #SL #SecondLife" # Had weird problems with V3 last night, then muted myself in Imprudence (older version). So, #Firestorm .. How you doin'? # In #SecondLife I flirt with third party viewers like some people hang out at infohubs. # @MoodyLoner you could ask Michelle Bachmann that, but the answer is always "GOD SAYS I SHOULD BE PRESIDENT." # RT @torley "We're…
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As forum poster Chosen Few helpfully noted: After the initial posting, cooler heads prevailed, including Gaia Clary, who’s the Blender/JASS/Primstar maven at Machinimatrix. And then Domino Marama weighed in – the creator of the scripts that so many Second Life creators have relied on (both free and paid versions). Re: Blender dropping COLLADA Reply to Chosen Few – Chosen Few wrote: Nothing’s been decided yet, so nobody panic yet. If worse comes to worst, and the Blender devs do cease official support for COLLADA, I’m sure enterprising SL residents will just create their own COLLADA exporter for Blender, and release…
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For the second time this week a picture used to illustrate a Second Life news blog caused a false impression and seemed to link a respected event or charity with scandal. Yes, it’s another NWN post by Hamlet Au causing the confusion. No linky-love for him, Google amongst yourselves. The first time was bad enough. Fortunately, Au took the image down late last night or early this morning. Unfortunately his blog is widely read and the damage has already been done, not easily to be repaired by an update buried in the comments. This time, an event picture from the…
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And an amazing time was had by all. Taken with Firestorm, var. V3, with most graphics (distance, LOD, trees, terrain) set to max and the Fine Day preset. Red Dragon Dance, originally uploaded by Lelani Carver.
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Yes, that was “our” Qarl in that BoingBoing post earlier today. Gee, he’s not busy enough deforming mesh for fashion-forward avatars, he has to create a tiny model of his house as a snowglobe holiday gift for his wife. If you feel like sending him money to make you one, by all means… but some of you may be able to figure out his process based on his blog post. Posts about the mesh deformer were all over my feed, so when I saw the BoingBoing.net post about “A clever fellow named Qarl,” I knew it had to be him…
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Not only that, but it’s timely, factual, and actually reported by a fox, and not the sort of Faux News we usually get from NWN (tip o’ the clockwork hat to Mr. Crap Mariner). Another year is gone to the history books, and before saying goodbye, time for a look back. From Redzone to Mesh to a promising new CEO, Second Life has seen it’s share of problems, developments, to influential people, whom left impacts both big and small, temporary and lasting, some well talked about while others slipped under the radar of the majority. Link: Second Life Newser Lelani…
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I just installed the latest version of the Imprudence viewer so that I can use the wonderful resource files at LindaKellie.com, which require Imprudence to upload/import into Second Life. I really used to like Imprudence before all the Viewer 2/3 hoo-ha, and I still miss some features, like free temporary uploads, build tool presets, the onboard AO, and yes, boob physics. I happened to look at the wiki for some reason (fun fact! “wiki” is a Hawaiian word, meaning “quick”). I think I wanted to know how recently someone had put some time in on it, so I clicked “Recent…