This may be the Final Post

This blog site provided to me free by Blogger has been acting haywire for the past few days.

When I add new lines to an existing blog entry, and save them, they show up on the blog. But when I try to edit the post, the new lines are missing from the text displayed for editing, and disappear from the blog.

I have no idea why this suddenly started happening, but I think the best will be to continue saving this information elsewhere. Or is that Blogger's objective?

As a matter of convenience, I have set up a personal weblog on one of my MediaWiki websites:
http://sluserguide.com/index.php?title=Category:Danton%27s_Weblog

So long for now, Blogger.

Weblog of Thursday 18 September 2008

Prok tweets Jason Larod debunking Open Source:
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/dec/long-live-closed-source-software/

Prok tweets Raph declaring avatar rights of Metaplace users:
http://www.raphkoster.com/2008/09/15/declaring-the-rights-of-metaplace-users/

Poinky tweets Present.ly "to keep up with your co-workers":
http://presentlyapp.com/

And I seem to have missed Yammer, a "Twitter for the enterprise":
http://www.yammer.com/

Pavig tweets a music system for MMO games:
http://www.worldsinmotion.biz/2008/09/agdc_a_generative_adaptive_mus.php

Weblog of Tuesday 16 September 2008

Jooce, a new "home" for cybercafe surfers:
http://www.jooce.com/

UgoTrade tweets Rob Smart (Eightbar) contributing to OpenSim a scripting function using JSON (javascript object notation, a format used by Web 2.0 service APIs) :
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/09/14/web-20-to-opensim-made-easy-json-support-added/

Grace blogs Virtual Business Licences:
http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2008/09/virtual-world-business-licenses-we-need.html

Pavig tweets DropBox:
http://www.getdropbox.com/

Commoncraft "in plain english" videos:
http://www.commoncraft.com/show

Flow in games:
http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/

Weblog of Sunday 14 September 2008

Should Linden Lab buy Plurk?:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/09/should-the-lind.html

Rik tweets Draxtor's video about SLCC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwFSviMDNFk

Gwyn tweets Babbage Linden mention on Mono website:
http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2008/Aug-20.html

Dnate tweets "what is PiM?" Is it Personal Information Management?:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager

Sin tweets Eladrienne's post about a SteamPunk style test:
http://caledonstroll.blogspot.com/2008/09/yes-i-took-it-too.html

Pavig tweets the Primer timeline:
http://neuwanstein.fw.hu/primer_timeline.html

Poinky passes Grace an uplink speed tester:
http://www.speed.io/index_en.html

Pavig tweets "Video killed the radio star":
http://www.80smusicvids.com/video.php?vid=The_Buggles_-_Video_Killed_The_Radio_Star

Weblog of Friday 12 September 2008

Prok tweets rap video about Hadron:
http://blog.brandexperiencelab.org/experience_manifesto/2008/09/large-hadron-ra.html

Prok tweets one person's chart of all their interconnected web stuff:
http://www.rzuser.uni-heidelberg.de/~x28/en/172/cckenv.jpg

Mitch blogs about CrowdSpring, another "crowdsourcing" service (like Kluster, Cambrian House, FellowForce) but which differs in that artists are required to submit completed works, not just concepts:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/09/demo_crowdsprin.html

Pavig tweets Verbeck on Virtual Worlds (none of this new, and most offerings are too geeky for the masses):
http://blogs.electricsheepcompany.com/sibley/?p=8

Poinky tweets a book called "Quests: Design, Theory, and History in Games and Narratives":
http://www.amazon.com/Quests-Design-Theory-History-Narratives/dp/1568813473

Pavig tweets an automated music magazine (whatever that's good for):
http://www.idiomag.com/

Josh Knauer is behind the RhizaLabs website:
http://rhizalabs.com/

Tateru posts horrifying tale of Linden DMCA notice screwup:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/11/dmca-notices-in-second-life-a-practical-example/

Orban tweet: "Starting to differentiate with what I bookmark with: del.icio.us for reference, instapaper for reading, and friendfeed for news-like stuff"

Pavig tweets Spring, a free RTS engine:
http://spring.clan-sy.com/

RTS means Real Time Strategy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_strategy

Insightful little post on Lordfly's blog:
http://www.lordfly.com/wordpress/?p=294

Prok tweets an Open Source Roadmap by "the enemy":
http://flickr.com/photos/psd/1805709102/

Amyvdh replies with Tim B-L's similar map of web history/future:
http://www.w3.org/2007/09/map/main.jpg

Orban says spatialmap is abandonware:
http://www.spatialmap.org/

Orban tweets OpenDNS:
http://www.opendns.com/

Squid tweets HD video of two maniacs skateboarding down Claremont canyon:
http://vimeo.com/1654340

Orban post about Tagging Reality, for "scalable semantic understanding of the world" (ho hum what else is new?):
http://www.openspime.com/2008/09/12/tagging-reality-scalable-semantic-understanding-of-the-world/

Weblog of Wednesday 10 September 2008

Pavig tweets spider in flash:
http://www.onemotion.com/flash/spider/

Tribe.net diverts me to the French site:
http://france.tribe.net/welcome

Orban following Techcrunch50 and Demofall08:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=techcruch50+OR+demofall08

Orban on Picnic:
http://www.picnicnetwork.org/person/25610/en

Sin tweets OpenOffice extension for GoogleDocs:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/ooo2gd

Prokofy tweets a connectivism course outline (calling it "cacaphony of subjectivity"):
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/wiki/Connectivism_Outline

Squid publicizing GoGrid cloud servers:
http://www.gogrid.com/

Most over-used elements in graphic design:
http://justcreativedesign.com/2008/09/09/top-7-most-overused-techniques-elements-used-in-graphic-design/


I'm tired of creating a new post each time, today's Thursday already:

Poinky tweets hangout.net "Get a room":
http://www.hangout.net/

Prok tweets commentary on Carr's "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?":
http://www.edge.org/discourse/carr_google.html#brin

Prok tweets a Connectivist reply to Carr:
http://theconnective.org/2008/09/08/fearing-digital-literacy/

Josh tweets Swype:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/09/tc50-swype-truly-gesture-based-data-entry/

Weblog of Monday 08 September 2008

Rezzable on SLim (with comment by Pavig):
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/web-inworld-chat-here-comes-slim#comment-1081

OpenSim wins VW innovation award:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/09/virtual-worlds.html

Pavig tweets StopMotionAnimation:
http://www.stopmotionanimation.com/handbook/

Poinky retweets Search Second Life:
http://search.secondlife.com/search.php

Smaller, less corporate SLCC:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/09/07/users-gather-for-a-smaller-less-corporate-slcc/

Rik blogs Buyers-Sellers on Why Johnny Can't Rez:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/09/beyers-sellers.html

Orban tweets VW08 Augmented Reality video:
http://bit.ly/40lhrq

Rik blogs Rafi on how to improve SL for educators:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/09/rafis-feedback.html

Weblog of Saturday 05 September 2008

Squid tweets a screen addiction intervention from Meetup:
http://unplugyourfriends.com/

Erik Krangel on IBM's Sametime and Second Life:
http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/9/ibm-drinks-second-life-kool-aid-makes-more-for-lotus-users-ibm-

Grace tweets the same story in Reuter's version:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/09/03/ibm-adds-virtual-worlds-support-to-lotus-sametime/

Loom, helpdesk rebooted:
http://loomapp.com/

Google results for LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol):
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ldap&aq=f&oq=

SL launches Educators Pilot Program:
http://secondlifegrid.net/programs/education

Weblog of Thursday 04 September 2008

Orban tweets Wikipedia article about Memetics:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memetics

Pavig tweets Google launching its own browser, called Chrome:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/tips/2008/09/02/can_google_build_a_better_browser-2.html

Second Life releases SLim, an instant messaging client for SL (including voice messages):
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/09/03/connecting-second-life-to-real-life/

Grace tweets that There.com also released a lite messaging client:
http://mashable.com/2008/09/02/there-virtual-worlds/

Squid tweets the birth of the internet:
http://www.cracked.com/video_16610_insane-true-story-behind-birth-internet.html

Logon to SLim:
http://secondlife.com/SLim

Tateru on SLim:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/03/hands-on-the-second-life-slim-client-is-here/

Pavig tweets Wikiversity Film-Making:
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Narrative_Film_Production

Virtual Greats, a platform to bring copyrighted material to virtual worlds:
http://www.virtualgreats.com/
In fact, they have exclusive distribution rights for virtual goods associated with Justin Timberlake, Raven Symoné, Snoop Dogg, Tila Tequila, Paris Hilton, Marvel's Incredible Hulk, and the Estate of Elvis Presley!

Blender video tutorials (Pavig again):
http://www.totallyblended.com/Tutorials.html

Orban live blogging from Virtual Worlds Expo:
Live blogging from the Virtual Worlds Expo - Day 2

Google tweeks Chrome license (tweeted by Kronos):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm

Ugo Trade tweets from VW Expo: Colin Parris IBM now talking about integration of Lotus Sametime with OpenSim (as a plugin VW to Sametime)

Weblog of Monday 01 August 2008

Transgender avatars, virtual death and related concepts:
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/08/marc-owens-who-designed-the.php

Pavig tweets free Python books (for use with blender):
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/29/two-free-python-e-books/

Orban tweets Owyang on how to get noticed:
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/08/31/how-to-get-noticed/

BigPond launches customer service in-world:
http://www.massively.com/2008/09/01/bigpond-launches-customer-service-center-in-second-life/

SL Shakespeare on video:
http://www.thinkerer.org/VirVilCultural/VirtVillCulMSND.htm

Weblog of Saturday 30 August 2008

Pavig tweets Virtual Vancouver, hard-core adult virtual world, with links to redlightcenter:
http://www.virtual-vancouver.com/

NWN on Avatar Rendering Cost (ARC):
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/whats-the-socia.html

Pavig tweets largest survey of SL ever, by Social Research Foundation, which "runs the First Opinions Panel, the largest consumer research panel in Second Life with 10,000 members" (if they think I'm going to help them make money like this, they're wrong):
http://www.slnn.com/article/survey-planned/

Maracas tweets free door script:
http://www.slexchange.com/modules.php?name=Marketplace&file=item&ItemID=871999

Pavig tweets Ubuntu for the eee netbook - but the site is down:
http://www.eeebuntu.org/

Pavig tweets free hi-rez grunge textures:
http://www.designshard.com/freebies/300-free-hi-res-grunge-textures-youve-never-seen-before/

Weblog of Friday 29 August 2008

Intel's Connected Visual Computing (CVC):
http://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2008/JimHeld_day0.pdf

Squid tweets backtype, to find your friends' comments (techcrunch calls it "twitter for comments"):
http://www.backtype.com/

Pavig tweets Torley blogging about media and mentioning Popurls:
http://popurls.com/

In a comment to Torley's post, Gwyneth links incidentally to Regina Lynn, talking here about Facebook sex bunnies:
http://www.reginalynn.com/archives/544

On Popurls under the Delicious listings I find Quarkbase, which tells you "everything about a website":
http://www.quarkbase.com/

Rik launches on-line game to raise youth awareness of Katarina sequels:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/08/global-kids-lau.html

Crap tweets Bloomberg's accidental post of Steve Jobs obituary:
http://gawker.com/5042795/steve-jobss-obituary-as-run-by-bloomberg

Torley links to Dustin Wax writing about mental filters:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/management/what-are-your-filters.html

Torley's island:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Here

Shapeways, a place where you can create and print your own 3D designs:
http://www.shapeways.com/

Tenebrous plurks a great game:
http://www.gamingdelight.com/games/totemdestroyer.php

Weblog of Wednesday 27 August 2008

Some of my recent comments

On Keen's Britannica post about Shirky:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/the-new-techno-historical-determinism-a-reply-to-clay-shirky/#comment-504501

On Tateru's post about SL marketing and demographics (after other comments by Pavig and Dusan):
http://www.massively.com/2008/08/26/where-is-second-life-going#c13943972


Now back to the daily weblog:

Virtual World Industry Outlook:
http://blog.techintelgroup.com/files/virtual_world_outlook_20082009.pdf

Orban tweets beta of new friendfeed:
http://beta.friendfeed.com/

Pavig tweets BlenderNation tutorial about texturing a head:
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/26/tutorial-texturing-a-head-with-glsl/

Ordinal tweets Edison's notetaking:
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/how-to-take-notes-like-thomas-edison.html

Maracas plurks First Life Community Convention:
http://www.flconvention.org/

Weblog of Tuesday 26 August 2008

Prok tweets Keene's reply to Shirky about are we reading less:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/07/the-new-techno-historical-determinism-a-reply-to-clay-shirky/

Joi Ito as a "venture communist":
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Foremski/?p=291

Sin reports that identi.ca uses OpenMicroBlogging Protocol:
http://sintrenton.tumblr.com/post/47300961/why-use-gtalk-identi-ca-if-you-have-msn-twitter

Pavig shares tweetake, to back up your twitter history to CSV:
http://tweetake.com/

Pavig tweets MySQL the game:
http://www.hackaday.com/2008/08/23/mysqlgame-playing-with-database-queries/

Weblog of Monday 25 August 2008

Sarah Lacy and Scoble on blogging:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cnet/20080824/tc_cnet/83011377231002421252

Prok tweets crowdfunding for journalism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/weekinreview/24kershaw.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin

Weblog of Sunday 24 August 2008

What games can learn from social software:
http://infovore.org/talks/playing-together-what-games-can-learn-from-social-software/

Wikibook about Blender:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro

Sin Trenton on blip.fm:
http://blip.fm/profile/sintrenton/blip/83398

Squid tweets a video about a Chemical Party:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDw4gk5pYl8

Moggs plurks twine (it like delicious):
http://www.twine.com/

Jacek's new (or rather, moved) blog:
http://tentacolor.com/

Maracas asks for internet spoofs.
You fail:
http://www.youfail.org/
All your base (more of a meme):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf9Y--_aY70&feature=related
Pigeon power:
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
Virgle:
http://www.google.com/virgle/

Nokia 3D Ning:
http://nokiaears.ning.com/

Arminas plurks "Research Center" in SL:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Research%20Center/139/130/651/

Freestyle opens a new sim:
http://slfreestyle.blogspot.com/

Weblog of Saturday 23 August 2008

Big growth in Teen Virtual Worlds:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/virtual-world-5.html

Gartner's new Hype Cycle:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/qa-jackie-fenn.html

which comes to me via Fleep:
http://fleeep.net/blog/2008/08/14/hype-cycle-and-james-paul-gee-building-worlds/

Mo Hax OpenSim blog:
http://imohax.com/

OpenSim the Apache of virtual worlds:
http://ostatic.com/170929-blog/an-introduction-to-open-sim-the-apache-of-virtual-worlds

Maracas plurks Animusic Pipe Dreams:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5503582578132361295&pr=goog-sl

K-Zero, resident experts in virtual worlds:
http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/

Bevan plurks Virtual Job Candy:
http://www.virtualjobcandy.com/

Weblog of Friday 22 August 2008

Pavig tweets Metaverse Journal article about businesses in SL:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2008/08/21/second-life-on-the-wane-for-aussies/

Making in-game languages:
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/590/in_tongues_richard_garriott_on_.php?page=1

Lordfly tweets Microsoft launch of Photosynth:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10020637-75.html

Lordfly interactive story on OpenSim platform:
http://www.sluniverse.com/php/vb/project-development/16014-nu-athens-interactive-story-opensim.html

Weight Watchers as a Role Play Gaming:
http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/commentary/games/2008/08/gamesfrontiers_0811

Wuala, free on-line file storing and sharing:
http://wua.la/

Weblog of Wednesday 20 August 2008

Crap encourages a vote for Bettina for sxsw (but you have to create an account first):
http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/778?return=%2Fideas%2Findex%2F3%2Fq%3Avirtual+worlds

Tateru says LL want to use inter-grid teleporting for a SL corporate grid:
http://www.massively.com/2008/08/18/a-second-life-corporate-grid-when-not-if/

Pavig tweets article saying SL is mostly for Generation X (born between 1964 and 1982) rather than Millennial Generation (born between 1982 and 2002):
http://www.metaversejournal.com/2008/08/19/students-vs-second-life/

Digado on browser-based vs. client-based worlds (again):
http://digado.nl/are-client-based-worlds-being-replaced.html

Squid blogs Cheezeburger - and Engrish:
http://laughingsquid.com/engrish-funny-photos-of-humorous-english-translations/

Wishfarmers:
http://wishfarmers.com/

Mozilla makes an IE plugin:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080819-mozilla-drags-ie-into-the-future-with-canvas-element-plugin.html

Post about JustLeapIn:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/08/just-leap-in-de.html

Stop the Mangatar:
http://laughingsquid.com/stopthemanga-wants-you-to-use-real-avatars/

Danton on Disqus (wuzzis?):
http://disqus.com/people/dantonsideways/#main

Metaforum page on kwippy:
http://www.kwippy.com/Metaforum/

Widget IMs a DailyKos post about "health"(?):
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/20/154911/355/287/571285#c10

Grace tweets the Twitties:
http://twitties.com/index.html

Weblog of Tuesday 19 August 2008

Katharine's new projet - access to your SL inventory from the web:
https://inventory.sl/

Moggs plurks Jing, a free video capture tool:
http://www.jingproject.com/

Zoe finds plurk to be better than Lively for off-grid SL stuff:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2on14

Zoe also trying Rejaw, a microblog service which allows 1000 character posts:
http://rejaw.com/ZoeConnolly

Nvidia releases Open GL3 drivers:
http://developer.nvidia.com/object/opengl_3_driver.html

Gwyneth posts about building communities:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/08/07/building-communities/

Bay City content package:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/05/24/bay-city-content-package/

Cedar Island website:
http://cedar-island.org/

SL Democratic Movement:
http://sl-dm.co.uk/

Weblog of Monday 18 August 2008

Vint Falken's post about Nazi costumes draws criticism from Brandon Catteneo:
http://www.vintfalken.com/vint-neko-of-the-reich/

Spott Spork’s kiosk in Northstar Mall sells nazi memorabilia including Zyklon-B canisters. His Furzi (Furry + Nazi) group has been banned by LL.

Romance 2.0 by Kanomi:
http://kanomi.blogspot.com/2008/08/romance-20.html

Jacek plurks a repository of SL viewer source code (can't these be found on the LL site?):
http://github.com/jacek/sl-viewer-source-archive/tree/master

Jacek plurks an article about online cooperation:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/puttingourhotheadstogether

Plurking for freelancers:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Internet phenomena:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_phenomena

Impossible is nothing, the video:
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/268703/impossible_is_nothing
http://tinyurl.com/633xdt

Pavig tweets the Aviary creation suite:
http://a.viary.com/

Weblog of Sunday 17 August 2008

TwitterCounter is supposed to be for your twitter vanity feed (but how do you use it?):
http://www.twittercounter.com/

WOW Tauren does Numa Numa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8aWF3BLbsE

Sin Trenton taking notes inworld thanks to Ordinal 's Blogger HUD, and collecting them in Evernote.

BoingBoing does an article on Atlantic vs. Anderson, which fails to give any satisfying links to explain what it is, just a link to Slashdot which ALSO fails to give enough links:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/08/15/riaa-has-to-pay-1079.html

Googling this gives an ArsTechnica article which is a bit better, but still fails to really explain what Anderson supposedly did wrong, and how Atlantic was led to prosecute her, of all people:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070604-riaa-throws-in-the-towel-in-atlantic-v-andersen.html

Weblog of Saturday 16 August 2008

Wired Celebrity Meter:
http://howto.wired.com/wiki/Celebrity_Meter

Fantastic contraption:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=68332

FaceYourManga:
http://www.faceyourmanga.com/homepage.php?lang=eng

ThinkBalm about Accenture, Second Life, Facebook:
http://tinyurl.com/67oes7

Humdog's Pandora's Vox:
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2004/05/introducing_hum.html

More Humdog:
http://foo.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2008/08/remembering-car.html
http://www.secondlifeherald.com/slh/2004/05/the_history_of_.html

Rheta "The World Philip Made" (from March 2008):
http://rhetasworld.wordpress.com/2008/03/07/the-world-philip-made/

StupidFilter:
http://stupidfilter.org/main/

Lolcats

I'm starting this thread to save favorite lolcat (and other lolanimal) links, which I get mostly from Jacek and MadameMaracas):

Secret kitty:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/07/dun-worre-yur-seekret-are-s.jpg

7% complete:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-kitten-monitor-evil-plan.jpg

Ur so sweet:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kittens-eating-sweet-kittens-nom.jpg

Not the bathtub:
http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa299/yupko/nooooooo-not-the-bafftub.jpg

Life's choices:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-cat-gives-you-two-options.jpg

Ponder:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-cat-is-pondering.jpg

Friday dance:
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p42/DWKING/friday.gif

Da hand that feeds ya:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/funny-pictures-black-kitten-noms-finger.jpg

Young Skywalker
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-yoda-cat-baby-sleeps.jpg

Fall down go boom:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-asks-if-you-fell-down.jpg

Oh noes:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/ohnoes.jpg

Unread Kittehs:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/funny-pictures-three-unread-kittens.jpg

Boring meeting:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/funny-pictures-cat-sleeps-boring-meeting.jpg

Scared of heights:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/128338152844531250ohnoesiis.jpg

Not ur laptop:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/128339954762812500noturlaptopi.jpg
Poot:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/poot.jpg

Innocent face:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kitten-plant-innocen-face.jpg

Kissin scene:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-prude-kitten.jpg

Kissin finish yet?:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-blanket-kitten-paws-eyes.jpg

Scary monster:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-cute-fierce-kitten.jpg

Who did it:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/funny-pictures-kitten-paint-floor.jpg

This many weeks:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/funny-pictures-kitten-counts-age.jpg
Something has crashed:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-pictures-kitten-crashed-laptop.jpg

Dentist say floss:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-kitten-flosses-as-per-instructions-of-dentist.jpg

Forgot the food:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-you-have-forgotten-the-food-part-of-dinner.jpg

Take out the trash:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/funny-pictures-raccoons-are-here-to-help-you.jpg

Omg bacon:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-pictures-kitten-is-excited-about-bacon.jpg

Donut:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/128294707207813750ihazadonut.jpg

Weblog of Friday 15 August 2008

Jessyka plurks Fail Guy:
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e336/PlayinWithFire/Epic-fail-guy-ruin.gif

Codie plurks Mechanized Life:
http://www.mechanizedlife.net/

Dusan plurks flash version of Rheta's winning UI:
http://www.dusanwriter.com/contests/ui_winner.html

Hamlet reviews features from UI contest winners:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/making-second-l.html

Rheta blogs about using her UI contest winnings for charitable purposes: http://rhetasworld.wordpress.com/2008/08/13/eeep/

Reuters article about the UI contest:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/08/13/second-life-residents-propose-their-own-solutions-to-a-troubled-ui/

Scatalogy:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3456/h_poopies.html

Best error pages:
http://blogof.francescomugnai.com/2008/08/the-100-most-funny-and-unusual-404-error-pages/

Plurk blog discusses new features:
http://blog.plurk.com/2008/08/14/shhhh-thats-the-sound-of-us-working/

Streaming video in SL:
http://land-answers.wiki.zoho.com/Streaming-Video-in-Second-Life.html
http://blogs.murdoch.edu.au/edtechkat/2008/06/20/live-streaming-video-into-second-life-on-murdoch-university-island/

Tinyurl for the Rick Roll:
http://tinyurl.com/2q9j9y

Dandellion plurks Gridaverse, SLURLs for SL - and other grids!
http://gridaverse.com/

Jelly is casual co-working:
http://www.workatjelly.com/

Tenebrous plurks online encryption service:
http://infoencrypt.com/

Poinky tweets 3D photo viewer:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/

Internet Duct Tape Labs:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080814/uni-washington-microsoft-research-yet-another-mindblowing-3d-photo-viewer/

Weblog of Thursday 14 August 2008

Plurkers use feedburner to know their blog subscription rate - it works with blogger.

Dandellion asks if people prefer SLEX or OnRez? For buying or selling?

Digado tweets Rivers Run Red, a development company for Google Lively spaces:
http://riversrunred.com/company/home/

Dog peeves:
http://www.snootypaws.com.au/blog/index.php/ten-peeves-that-dogs-have-about-humans/

Poinky tweets Virtual Worlds Research Tools:
http://www.slideshare.net/storygeek/virtual-worlds-research-tools/
seems to be little real meaning in the last 5 or 6 slides though.

Harper Beresford recommends this site for fun stuff:
http://www.k10k.net/

Bacn (pronounced "bacon") is not quite spam:
http://www.bacn2.com/

Prok tweets the death of humdog:
http://ceteri.blogspot.com/2008/08/shared-memory-humdog.html

Dandellion plurks Botgirl on immersion and emergence:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/spectatorship-immersion-and-emergence.html

Weblog of Wednesday 13 August 2008

Al Kronos tweets a 1994 article explaining http and the internet:
http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

focusing in particular on REST:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_State_Transfer

Pavig tweets Chandler, calling it a Mitch Kapor project:
http://chandlerproject.org/

and Twingly, an RSS search engine:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/twingly-search-and-awesome-screensaver/

and server-side 3D graphics rendering:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/otoy-developing-server-side-3d-rendering-technology/

more of the above, about something called LivePlace:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/11/liveplace-to-launch-photo-realistic-virtual-world-rendered-in-the-cloud/

The latter said to be a fake:
http://www.adamfrisby.com/blog/2008/08/oh-look-vapourware/

OpenGL3 is disappointing:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/08/11/2135259

Disqus 2 is out:
http://blog.disqus.net/2008/08/12/introducing-the-new-disqus/

Dusan announces SL UI winners (Rheta, Jacek and Roy Cassini, in that order):
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=803

The lab of ArminasX:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Caso%20Milo/237/108/131

Linden Lab rejects Jacek's patch:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-8056

Dandellion shares the ultimate plurk guide:
http://freelanceswitch.com/working/social-media-communication-and-conversation-for-freelancers-and-web-workers/

Codie says this is the best plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/2bazu

Dandellion plurks a site to share links - and share the revenues that result:
http://vimu.com/

as explained here:
http://vimu.com/faq/#14

Vint blogs about SL instant messaging (SLim):
http://www.vintfalken.com/slim-a-second-life-light-instant-messaging/

Pavig cites Citrix Xenapp as a typical server-side application:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix_Presentation_Server

New Spore prototypes:
http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes

My tinyurls

Tinyurls to my posts on Virtual Jungle:

Tour of OS grids: http://tinyurl.com/3wclkx
Alternate SL viewers: http://tinyurl.com/3lb8k5
Danton goes OS: http://tinyurl.com/5ckofw
Micro-Ode to Proko-Fly: http://tinyurl.com/4bffkr
CDS election update: http://tinyurl.com/6y9ntu
The Road to Illich: http://tinyurl.com/5f9fdd

Weblog of Monday 11 August 2008

Moggs doing research on where to find men's hair in SL (just in case...).

Tenebrous makes a Wordle:
http://i37.tinypic.com/24yzdd4.png

using this site (but you also need Java?):
http://wordle.net/create

and here's what he gets with Katharine's blog:
http://i36.tinypic.com/2zyldfb.png

Katharine blogs Ajaxlife for iPhone:
http://blog.ajaxlife.net/2008/08/iphones/

and gets blogged by Hamlet:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/ajaxlife-now-fo.html

Zha working on an OGP (Open Grid Protocol) patch:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp

Digado continues about clients versus browser plugins:
http://digado.nl/client-versus-browser-part-ii.html

Sin uses ordinal 's Caledon On Sea 86,176,27 Blogger email function to send notes from inworld to Evernote: copy a line from a chat, send to Evernote from inworld.

Ugo Trade says Rezzable is on "Open Grid", but on which one?

Security attacks use linking to false Youtube site and downloading fake Flash video viewer:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7543014.stm

Dusan's photos of notable features from UI contest:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13768013@N05/

A colleague sent me this:
http://producten.hema.nl/

Weblog of Sunday 10 August 2008

Prok suggests the Lindens read this blog post on Edge Cases:
http://www.blueflavor.com/blog/2008/feb/11/edge-cases-are-the-root-of-all/

Ugo Trade interviews Avi Bar-Zeev about browser-based virtual worlds:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/08/08/will-the-future-of-virtual-worlds-be-in-the-browser-interview-with-avi-bar-zeev/

Hamlet on Xenki, which runs SL and OpenSim in a browser:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/08/introducing-xen.html

Al Kronos wishes Squeezebox would coordinate with Reciva (internet radio):
https://www.reciva.com/

Crap creates his profile on Wikia:
http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Crap_Mariner

Ugo Trade tweets Avi's table about brower-based VWs:
http://www.realityprime.com/articles/some-definitions

iYan tweets the Cuddlefish Junction opening:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Dynamism/47/99/4

Dandellion on virtual pregnancy:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/2008/virtual-pregnancy

Prim touch coordinates are coming:
http://gwynethllewelyn.net/2008/08/09/a-touching-event/

Draxtor makes a video about Manpower in SL:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p39sWkiKnR8

Peacefest at Turtle Island:
http://slpeacefest.wordpress.com

Weblog of Thursday 07 August 2008

Techcrunch on feedburner:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/02/one-year-later-feedburner-gains-google-server-power

Sin Trenton tweets tiktrac:
http://tiktrac.com

Squid (re)tweets the Internet Memes timeline:
http://www.dipity.com/user/tatercakes/timeline/Internet_Memes

Al Kronos comparing Magicbox to Squeezebox.

Pavig tweets new blender version
http://www.blendernation.com/2008/08/05/blender-247-rc1-available-to-download
http://identi.ca/tag/linuxworld

Weblog of Wednesday 06 August 2008

Pavig tweets Kevin Kelly on the next 5000 days of the web:
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_on_the_next_5_000_days_of_the_web.html

and Plasma Pong:
http://playthisthing.com/plasma-pong

Al Kronos is on the Twine beta (a semantic-web site):
http://www.twine.com

Digado explains how Lively uses Flash:
http://digado.nl/are-client-based-worlds-being-replaced.html

Random accounts deleted from twitter:
http://getsatisfaction.com/twitter/topics/account_deleted_banned_with_no_reasoning

Dusan plurks prim baby bazooka:
http://sldiscoveries.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/baby-bazooka.jpg

The Best of SL:
http://www.thebosl.com

Arminasx finds netvibes to be the fastest way to skim RSS.

Dandellion has embeded plurk widget on her blog.

iYan plurks Mal's Metaverse Week in Review on Operator11:
http://lite.weblin.com/?http://operator11.com/shows/4091

ArmminasX plurks Nika's Second Homes:
http://secondhomes.wordpress.com

Rik tweets video tour of 50 VWs:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=0CijdlYOSPc

and another similar video:
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=wMOqI3hH9Gs

LL blog on the future of the Mainland:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/08/05/the-future-of-the-second-life-mainland

Poinky tweets social media gender gap article:
http://www.iabc.com/cwb/archive/2008/0808/PointofView.htm

Gwyneth tweets .sl domain names:
https://www.nic.sl/domain

Weblog of Tuesday 05 August 2008

Maracas gives Tenebrous a link about robots that think people taste like bacon:
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2006/10/robots_think_pe.html

Weblog of Monday 04 August 2008

Long Zha Ewry post of protocols, software, trust and virtual worlds:
http://zhaewry.wordpress.com/2008/08/01/protocol-software-trust-and-worlds/

Grace on the Stanford Prison Experiment and SL:
http://phasinggrace.blogspot.com/2008/08/stanford-prison-experiment-and-our.html

Pavig tweets an EFF sponsored test to see if you ISP is interfering with your internet:
http://www.eff.org/testyourisp/switzerland

Also from Pavig, neat wave image:
http://vorpal.us/img/waveofthefuture.jpg

Rik tweets about tethering your pc to your iPhone, which seems to mean you can use the phone number for a computer internet connection:
http://gizmodo.com/5032248/how-to-tether-your-iphone-with-netshare

Pavig tweets Lively vs IMVU vs SL:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22lively%22%2C+%22second+life%22%2C+%22imvu%22&ctab=0&geo=all&date=mtd&sort=4

Comcast acquires Plaxo (whatever that was):
http://www.plaxo.com

Katharine says del.icioi.us moved to delicious.com?

Codie (also) is using ZHAO (whatever that is).

Weblog of Sunday 03 August 2008

Dakota's shared Google items:
http://www.google.com/reader/shared/13418282095375417306

Then she said change it to this:
http://www.google.co.uk/reader/shared/16927801312977376159?hl=en

iYan plurks Gartner's denial of vw prediction:
http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/07/vbusiness-expo.html?cid=124575300#comment-124575300

Lekdawg's lost zombies hits 2000 members:
http://www.lostzombies.com/

Dandellion's SL quotes page:
http://metaverse.acidzen.org/memorable-quotes

Plurk CSS instructions:
http://www.plurk.com/stylingHelp

Katharine's fixed collapsible plurk dashboard:
http://katharineberry.co.uk/plurk-dashboard-collapsible.user.js

Madame Maracas uses MediaMonkey to organize her music and stuff:
http://www.mediamonkey.com/

Vint on the SL UI contest:
http://www.vintfalken.com/the-second-life-user-interface-design-contest/

Weblog of Saturday 02 August 2008

Pavig tweets a lesson about fair use using Disney material:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJn_jC4FNDo

Also from Pavig, the virtual museum of computers:
http://www.esi.uclm.es/museo/index_en.html

David Orban: "Best Talk at iSummit '08 was Hiroaki Kitano, Director of Sony Computer Science Labs about 'Opensource Pharma'."

Jeremy Kemp tweets Yahoo design patterns library:
http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns

Crap tweets rolling teardrops in SL:
http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/07/_and_the_whole_grid_cried_with.html

Weblog of Friday 01 August 2008

Another reference to Scratch for SL (S4SL), a graphical programming language for interactive objects in SL:
http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL

Pavig tweets rezzable blog about what enterprises need in SL:
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/what-enterprises-need-sl-maybe

Pavig tweets trailer for Japanese Cyworld:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEup7KYcO5Y

Weblog of Saturday 26 July 2008

SWFupload is a small JavaScript/Flash library featuring upload capabilities of Flash and accessibility and ease of HTML/CSS:
http://swfupload.org/

Communal Writeboard in SL made by Angrybeth Shortbread (2006):
http://www.3pointd.com/20060823/communal-writeboard-in-second-life/

Jacek on the lost mythos of Second Life:
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/07/22/the-lost-mythos-of-second-life/

Weblog of Friday 25 July 2008

Ugo Trade calls for support for OpenSim:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/23/realizing-the-potential-of-virtual-worlds-why-and-how-to-support-opensim/

Greenbush: a kid's OpenSim project:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/7576361@N03/tags/greenbushgrid/show

ArminasX plurks the SpaceNavigator alternative to the mouse:
http://www.3dconnexion.com/3dmouse/spacenavigator.php

Jessyka says:
"It's okay for walking. Depends on my mood. I generally use a SN and mouse combo for moving."

My wordpress blog got spammed by an outfit calling itself Black Hat Boot Camp. Apparent sleazebags, but with fairly interesting articles about buying links and stuff:
http://blackhatbootcamp.com/blog/

Castranova's final paper about price and demand in Arden:
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1173642

Weblog of Thursday 24 July 2008

Lessig compares video casting software:
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/07/one_step_until_brilliant_scree.html

Google social graph API for Google profile:
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/07/your-google-profile-suggests-sites-that.html

A social site for "social entrepreneurs":
http://unltdworld.com/

The virtual policy network is a think-tank:
http://www.virtualpolicy.net/

Weblog of Wednesday 23 July 2008

Codie wants someone to check if she is in the Best of SL in-world:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Venezuela%20Angel%20Falls/219/130/27

Rheta starts a huge plurk thread on ARC in SL:
http://www.plurk.com/p/1ldly

Dora the Explorer Fail, from failblog:
http://failblog.org/2008/07/21/dora-the-explorer-fail/

Time Fail:
http://failblog.org/2008/07/21/time-fail/

The SL transaction history program used by Lunette was made by Thickbrick Sleaford.

iYan Writer mentions on his blog the concept of Eternal September, and links to the Wikipedia article (which in turn links to Meatball Wiki!):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

New Citizens Incorporated (NCI) help for SL noobies:
http://world.secondlife.com/place/1a6165d4-aa3b-55fb-2a14-afaa6bd31100

SLURL for Steller's original beanstalk:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Welsh/28/87/21/

Highscalability dot com:
http://highscalability.com/

David Orban organizes iSummit 08 in SL:
http://icommonssummit.org/summit_blog/2008/07/icommons-is-proud-to-announce.html

@rikomatic tweets:
"Darfur Genocide event went well. Lots of moving parts, but all went as planned. Thanks @amoration, @faeriedevilish @rhiannonsl for coming!"

My recent comments

On Dale Innis' post about a party at Indolence:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/still-not-a-party-at-indolence/#comment-87

On Hamlet's re-post about Microsoft in OpenSim:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/when-will-micro.html#comment-123295598

Weblog of Tuesday 22 July 2008

Meekatje plurks Uthango Social Investments:
http://uthango.org/

Codie plurks the SL Tourist Board on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/sl_touristboard/

Katharine uses Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) an online storage service offered by Amazon Web Services:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_S3

Weblog of Sunday 10 July 2008

Pavig tweets the new Metaverse Journal forum:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/forum/

The Metaverse Journal is Australian:
http://www.metaversejournal.com/
http://www.metaversejournal.com/about/

Lotta people watching Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog:
http://www.drhorrible.com/

David Orban tweets a book on decluttering:
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/07/18/merlin-mann-reviews.html

Microsoft oggling OpenSim:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/07/18/microsoft-eyes-integration-between-opensim-and-windows-live-id/

Weblog of Saturday 19 July 2008

Dusan Writer does a long post criticising the multitude of new Virtual Worlds:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=733

NWN post on RL politics in the metaverse:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/can-you-talk-re.html

ArminasX analyses Codie's Rouge opening:
http://www.secondeffects.com/2008/07/rouge-analysis.html

Your dog missed you:
http://ihasahotdog.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/funny-dog-pictures-your-dog-missed-you.jpg

Create PDF documents free (you can also use OpenOffice):
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator
http://www.primopdf.com/

Maybe I should join the SL Bloggers ning:
http://secondlifebloggers.ning.com/

WordPress Theme Park:
http://wpthemepark.com/themes/blossom

Passpack, to pack up your passwords:
http://www.sciencetext.com/packing-up-passwords.html

See also:
http://www.roboform.com/

Sendables by JibJab:
http://sendables.jibjab.com/sendables/1191/time_for_some_campaignin#/teaser/376

Weblog of Friday 18 July 2008

Some thoughts on virtual world experiences and open source software

Electric Sheep launches Webflock, an application for private-label virtual experiences, for Online Marketing and Web Publishers:
http://www.electricsheepcompany.com/webflock

Next question: where is the open-source browser-based virtual world application? Prokofy would ask, why do entitlement-happy opensourceniks want everything to be free? Answer: because we feel that no one should be prevented from making and using an open-source tool if they want to.

The open-source tools are admittedly often difficult to use, with inadequate user support systems, or incompletely developped. Maybe that's the price to pay for their being free. Thus there is a time and place for both free open-source software and purchased propriety software.

Back to the daily weblog:

laughingsquid tweets a hosted help desk service:
http://www.zendesk.com/
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/zendesk_saas_help_desk.php

Ugo Trade tweets the next Metaverse Meetup (in meatspace, NY) about SL-OS interoperability:
http://gamedev.meetup.com/153/calendar/8359764/

Ebon Fisher comments: "and I thought the universal portal between all worlds was love." See Ebon's Nervepool:
http://nervepool.net/

and especially these pages:
http://nervepool.net/hyperhive/HIVE_home.html
http://nervepool.net/go.html

Summize has become "search.twitter":
http://search.twitter.com/

Poinky tweets an IEEE article about Machinima:
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jul08/6383

where I learn it is formed of "machine" + "cinema" - thus it should be "Machinema".

Mitch Wagner writes about the Free Software Foundation criticism of the iPhone:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/opensource_advo.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Dusan's SL interface contest finalists:
http://dusanwriter.com/?p=662

Poinky posts about chat-room type virtual worlds:
http://really.blogs.xerox.com/2008/07/18/im-in-ur-browser-chatting-in-3d/

Weblog of Wednesday 16 July 2008

Daden launches a SL browser:
http://www.daden.co.uk/

Pavig's review of Daden browser:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/07/finally-full-web-browser-for-second.html

Dale Innis on owning things in virtual worlds:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/owning-stuff-wow-sl-owners-and-holders/

Exporting SL objects as paper models (by way of ogle and blender):
http://exporttoworld.plugimi.com/index.php

How to take back your time:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/trends/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205901242

Pavig tweets LL to offer OpenSim value-added services:
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/07/11/interview-linden-prepares-for-an-opensim-future/

Reuters article about CentralGrid (from last January):
http://secondlife.reuters.com/stories/2008/01/25/opensim-worlds-lure-second-lifes-outcasts/

Rubaiyat tweets a project about collaboration between defense lawyers and SL architects (!?):
http://defense-coop.org/

Interesting ZdNet post about Plurk:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/feeds/?p=149

Plurkshops:
http://plurkshops.com/
http://www.plurkaholics.com/category/plurkshops/

Tenebrous starts a word-association thread on plurk:
http://www.plurk.com/p/1f0yi

Muppets doing Mahna Mahna (third version):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YevYBsShxNs

Mah Na Mah Na - Links added after 16 July 2008:

The first Sesame Street version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJuKX2j-Cw&NR=1

The second version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp3f5xzmbGc&feature=related

Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mah_N%C3%A0_Mah_N%C3%A0

Muppet Wiki:
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_%28song%29http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Mahna_Mahna_(character)
http://muppet.wikia.com/wiki/Bip_Bippadotta

Weblog of Tuesday 15 July 2008

Scratch for SL (S4SL) allows you to create LSL scripts by assembling simple colorful shapes:
http://www.massively.com/2008/07/14/tools-of-the-trade-scratch-for-sl/

Beejive for IM on upper-end mobile phones:
http://www.beejive.com/

Rikomatic blogs IslamOnline Island in SL:
http://www.rikomatic.com/blog/2008/07/going-on-a-virt.html

Virtual Greats creates web celebrities and virtual goods:
http://virtualgreats.com/

Hamlet on Lively as a SL foyer:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/07/will-googles-li.html

Get Satisfaction from LL (the pages take forever to open, hardly very satisfying...):
http://getsatisfaction.com/secondlife

Get Satisfaction, people-powered customer service:
http://getsatisfaction.com/

Twitter acquires Summize:
http://blog.twitter.com/2008/07/finding-perfect-match.html

Weblog of Monday 14 July 2008

I should look at SLNN more often:
http://www.slnn.com/index.php

Pick up your email from any computer:
http://mail2web.com/

Karma trends, a plurk bot to graph karma over time:
http://www.plurk.com/user/karma_trends

Jacek talking about Duck Typing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_typing

Weblog of Sunday 13 July 2008

Al Kronos using still another virtual world:
http://www.justleapin.com/

Pavig's photo on Evernote of sl/lively cross world panel:
http://www.evernote.com/pub/paviglok/sldev#48b1adee-5754-4d77-937e-d995d1a57870

Pavig tweets "ANGEL Learning Announces Second Life Integration Project with San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science":
http://www.angellearning.com/media/news/2008-07-10.html

Tigerlily's very long post about a SL business drama, with lots of comments:
http://callatropia.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/some-things-i-need-to-say/

Newsweek article about Twitter, Tumblr and Posterous:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/145216

Slashdot thread about Lively (is there an article also?):
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/09/1210218&from=rss

Deja Vu, SL speech recognition tool:
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/en/?q=node/12

Deja Vu provided by SL Professionals (a Czech group, apparently:
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/
http://www.secondlifeprofessionals.com/en/

Weblog of Saturday 12 July 2008

Rooms on Lively:
Ugo Trade:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=144946701023175904
Linden Lab:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=1024337222374851925
Tree Tops:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=-5475660557878759417

Standard Lively address format:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=x

Note: I've listed these room addresses here because it seems to work better to link to them like this, rather than using the Lively room list pages.

Weblog of Friday 11 July 2008

Pavig tweets Expo3D virtual world targetting corporate users:
http://expo3d.com/

Vivaty, another virtual world embedded in the browser:
http://www.vivaty.com/

Ugo Trade's Lively address:
http://embed.lively.com/iframe?rid=144946701023175904

Wufoo hosted form service:
http://wufoo.com/

Blog post about animation overides such as ZHAO, HUDDLES or Wet Ikon:
http://slfashionnotices.wordpress.com/2007/07/26/making-a-custom-ao-using-zhao-or-huddles/

Katharine tried to set up on OpenSim server at sim.ajaxlife.net. She suspects the machine running it is far too slow.

Lunette thinks splurk from PlurkHud did not work.

Browsershots to test your web page in different browsers:
https://browsershots.org/

Googlefight presents Second Life vs Lively:
http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=second+life&word2=lively
Gwyneth's tinyurl for this: http://ping.fm/pvcRs

Codie plurkovates a list of favorite sims:
http://www.plurk.com/p/18bau

Metabolt an advanced version of SLeek:
http://www.metabolt.net/

For future reference, tinyurls to my blog posts:
Tour of OS grids: http://tinyurl.com/3wclkx
Alternate SL viewers: http://tinyurl.com/3lb8k5
Danton goes OS: http://tinyurl.com/5ckofw
Micro-Ode to Proko-Fly: http://tinyurl.com/4bffkr
CDS election update: http://tinyurl.com/6y9ntu

Weblog of Thursday 10 July 2008

epredator on the legal implications of using browsers embedded in virtual worlds:
http://eightbar.co.uk/2008/07/06/explaining-why-some-old-approaches-wont-work/

Linden Lab page on their Open Grid Public Beta:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Open_Grid_Public_Beta

Weblog of Wednesday 09 July 2008

Lively is Google's new virtual world:
http://www.lively.com/html/landing.html
iYan says Lively is browser-based, and Lordfly says there is no content creation, just catalog stuff.

Controversial TechCrunch post about Lively:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/08/google-launches-virtual-world-called-lively/

laughingsquid using Foxmarks to sync Firefox bookmarks between multiple computers.

bit.ly an alternative to tinyurl:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/bitly_alternative_to_tinyurl.php

Ugo Trade on the IBM - Linden Lab teleport and interoperability protocols:
http://www.ugotrade.com/2008/07/08/ibm-linden-lab-launch-protocols-for-virtual-world-interoperability/

Weblog of Tuesday 08 July 2008

iYan visiting Locos Pocos sim:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Loco%20Pocos%20Island/183/149/140

Freebie marketing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razor_and_blades_business_model

Vint Falken asks what software to put on a new Acer:
http://www.vintfalken.com/confirming-rumours-its-a-boy-errr-acer/

Euler Quaternion Pro:
http://www.geocities.com/mak2000sw/eulerquatpro.html

Prok criticizes Nexeus for launching an open source project called Avaverse:
http://www.nexeusfatale.com/journal/announcing-the-avaverse/#comment-10481

Bettina Tizzie's proposal for a Creative Commons attribution function in the SL viewer:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/dear-m-linden-please-help-content.html

Ugo Trade adds OpenSim to Virtual Worlds timeline on Dipity:
http://www.dipity.com/user/xantherus/timeline/Virtual_Worlds

NPR blog about developing features for the NPR website:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/inside/

laughingsquid: "Hellotxt.com & Ping.fm will allow me to simultaneously post to both Twitter & Identi.ca"

360desktop:
http://www.360desktop.com/

Pachube to share real-time data, including from a Second Life installation:
http://www.pachube.com/

GrandCentral, a new way to use the phone:
http://www.grandcentral.com/

SL metrics on Google Docs:
http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pxbDc4B2FH974Gfq2Uj6PPQ&gid=2

The human mirror (using twins):
http://improveverywhere.com/2008/07/06/human-mirror/

IBM - Linden Lab operability announcement:
http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/07/08/ibm-linden-lab-interoperability-announcement/
Why do they this is the first time an avatar has teleported from one virtual world to another? Zha Ewry announced having done this a month ago.

With respect to the above, Tao Takashi links to the pyogp project "which soon might have a basic agent domain implementation and has a login script already" (ogp = open grid protocols):
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Pyogp

Hamster kiss:
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/funny-pictures-hamster-kiss-glass.jpg

Weblog of Sunday 06 July 2008

Pavig tweets the Second Life Pros blog:
http://www.secondlifepros.com/

which has a post about the Yoowalk no-download virtual world for browsing the web:
http://www.secondlifepros.com/yoowalk-a-virtual-world-to-surf-the-web-in-3d/

The Profilactic aggregetor supports 186 social sites:
http://www.profilactic.com/

Gwyneth tweets the locos pocos website:
http://locopocos.com/

Another video by the makers of ROFLMAO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5q3TG5yCG0&feature=PlayList&p=D25046A07D0637B6&index=0

Lots of people referring to identi.ca:
http://identi.ca/

Tateru posts about Katharine knocking Lindens' handling of the teen grid:
http://www.massively.com/2008/07/04/ghetto-grid-katharine-berry-slams-labs-negligence/

Vint Falken posts about nominees for Linden Lab Innovation Awards:
http://www.vintfalken.com/linden-lab-innovation-awards-looking-for-nominees/

NPIRL posts about Codie's Rouge sim:
http://npirl.blogspot.com/2008/07/rouge-codered-bastard-becomes-even.html

News about Mitch's announcement in a comment on the Rezzable blog:
http://rezzable.com/poll/some-big-announcement-july-7-sl-the-big-news-end-sl5b-announced-mitch-kapur-will-be#comment-583
From the official SL blog: "Mitch’s announcement will be about a new program that recognizes the achievements of Residents in making Second Life a disruptive technology platform."

Mal Burns' new website:
http://malburnsannex.blogspot.com/

Weblog of Saturday 05 July 2008

Pavig tweets Journal of Virtual World Research website with meaty pdf's:
http://jvwresearch.org/

Rezzable charging to use their sims:
http://slambling.blogspot.com/2008/07/rezzable-introduces-pay-to-use-service.html

What's impression about the Fail Blog is the number of comments, and the way they nestle with "comment on this comment":
http://failblog.org/2008/07/02/microsoft-fail/
The site seems to have something to do with icanhascheeseburger, which explains why there are so many visitors.

Tweetdeck assembles a twitter database on the local hard drive:
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Weblog of Thursday 03 July 2008

Rezzable guesses about LL profits:
http://rezzable.com/blog/rightasrain-rimbaud/random-guesses-about-ll-profits

Vint Cerf says the internet is "broken":
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/vint_cerf_the_i.html
Specifically, he thinks there is not enough competition among broadband service providers. Most users have a choice between their local telephone company or their local cable company, and two competitors is not enough to forestall monopolistic practices.

AlKronos tweets: "Having a look at the SL RegAPI wiki, since I'm getting a lot whinges from people struggling to hack thru to worksafe registration sites "

How to send notecards to friends using a notecard giver:
http://www.plurk.com/p/xktf

ROFLMAO:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEWgs6YQR9A

The truth about Jonathan Coulton:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBfR6wYnGZI

Weblog of Wednesday 02 July 2008

Mozilla to release Weave 2.0:
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/06/weave-scheduled-downtime

The future of the kill switch:
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/commentary/securitymatters/2008/06/securitymatters_0626
Dale Innis on a law that would ban the general purpose computer:
http://www.davidchess.com/words/log.20020503.html#20020504

Platform studies:
http://www.platformstudies.com/

Weblog of Tuesday 01 July 2008

Plurk tutorial:
http://reviewshowtos.com/how-to/social/plurk/plurking-help-the-complete-plurk-how-to-guide-for-plurkers-old-and-plurks-noobs-to/2008/06/04/

Weblog of Sunday 29 June 2008

Doppler is an online tool for frequent business travellers:
http://www.dopplr.com/

Pixar's online library of 3D graphics:
http://graphics.pixar.com/

Philip Rosedale and The Tech Museum's President Peter Friess speak at The Tech Virtual's Summit:
http://thetechvirtual.org/june-4-summit/keynotes-summit-on-digital-democracy-in-exhibit-design

Hosted Gig and Subversion project management:
http://unfuddle.com/

Video about micro-organisms living on us:
http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=dBU6-XK2v54&feature=related

laughingsquid: ok so after using Disqus for a day, I can say that it's not only improved commenting, but increased the amount of comments, plus zero spam

Capital markets don't care about what gets the Valley excited (thanks to Prok):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/28/business/28venture.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1214733110-lIQhrCc8fUs+tLjr7BC3wg

BlossomsK building a coffee shop inworld:
http://slurl.com/secondlife/tealeaf/124/116/42/?title=MochaDolce%20

I had forgotten all about cakephp:
http://www.cakephp.org/

What is the new Locus Pocus avatar (a rabbit, apparently)?

MPAA Says No Proof Needed in P2P Copyright Infringement Lawsuits:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/mpaa-says-no-pr.html

400 SL Bloggers on Ning:
http://secondlifebloggers.ning.com/

PlurkHUD in SL

Solve protein folding puzzles for science:
http://fold.it/portal/adobe_main

Katharine's Greasemonkey script to modify Plurk page footer:
http://www.plurk.com/p/ta65

Triangles in Javascript:
http://www.uselesspickles.com/triangles/demo.html

Weblog of Thursday 26 June 2008

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