Yesterday Linden Lab released a new “First look Viewer” for “↑Second Life“ (SL) [they call the SL-client a “viewer”], a new test-client. With the ↑WindLight First Look Viewer: 1.16.0.62469 you can regularly log on to SL’s main grid, and … Continue reading →
a guide to in- and offworld online resources, or: avatar customization 101 A main factor contributing to the attractiveness of “↑Second Life“ (SL) is the possibility to modify and create content—up to the never-seen-before. I have to confess that during … Continue reading →
Gritty streets, rundown facades, a torn slip of a propaganda poster flapping in the wind, a buzzing larger-than-life screen showing off animated Coca-Cola logos, graffitti on the walls, freshly lit, but orphaned smoking cigarettes in ashtrays on barcounter tops … Continue reading →
I ran into him in The Future. Xah Toll aka ↑Xah Lee is a professional programmer who was brought to “↑Second Life“ (SL) by his friend Seifert Surface aka Stanford-mathematician ↑Henry Segerman. The latter is the creator of the … Continue reading →
Just to give you an idea about what I meant by ↵caring about cyberpunk-aesthetic details in “↑Second Life“ (SL), look what this people wear on their belts and elsewhere.
Continue reading →cyberpunked second living Believe it or not, Ladies and Gentlemen, I am getting cooler day by day—in “↑Second Life“ (SL) that is. Remember when I said that graphics-wise SL is ↵insultory to my hardware? Well, concerning the absolute majority … Continue reading →
Just a quick note—I ran into the real thing in “↑Second Life“ (SL). Yesterday I was proud to accomplish an animation override for my avatar (thanks Sue!), and found a pair of free male prim shoes. For the override … Continue reading →
From 01 through 04 October 2007 in Halle (Saale), Germany, the next biannual conference of the ↑German Anthropological Association (GAA) [aka ↑Deutsche Gesellschaft für Völkerkunde (DGV)] will take place. The conference is called “↑Questions of dispute—On the relationship of empirical … Continue reading →
When I am forced to speak academish anthropologese, I use to babble about “conceptual spaces of interaction induced by the Internet infrastructure,” or else. When I was a kid I was forced to read ↑Emily Brontë‘s “Wuthering Heights” in school. … Continue reading →