Weblog of Wednesday 25 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets: "Can anyone send me direct links to SL client viewer downloads? ie to the AWS S3 links, not the secondlife.com - I'm dodging firewalls!"

iYan replies with this:
http://snurl.com/2nxsg

and this (??):
http://download-secondlife-com.s3.amazonaws.com/SecondLife_1_19_1_4.dmg

"Secret" weblog of Dale Innis:
http://daleinnis.wordpress.com/

Gwyneth Llewelyn thinks LL is dropping Gecko as the in-world browser and using Safari:
http://meta.nuanti.com/

Virtual Greats is marketing celebrity likeness in virtual worlds:
http://www.virtualgreats.com/

Google has launched MapMaker:
http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=307

Rubaiyat becomes member of (mostly-WOW) Science Guild:
http://scienceguild.org/wiki/index.php?title=Scienceguild:Community_Portal

Plurk karma trends for Rheta:
http://plurk.ryanlim.com/?n=rheta

and the unofficial Plurk guide:
http://plurk.ryanlim.com/help

New SL download page is not valid XHTML (this Jira post due to Jacek?):
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-674

Digado replurking George Carlin's unlimited bandwidth:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=jCljFYn3zTY

Tenebrous plurks Orange Island "Our World is Changing" Discussion:
http://www.orange-island.com/?page_id=503

Freestyle is a software for Non-Photorealistic Line Drawing rendering from 3D scenes:
http://freestyle.sourceforge.net

Jacek shares SL User Experience mailing list:
https://lists.secondlife.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sl-ux

Weblog of Tuesday 24 June 2008

SLBuzz shows the users who spent the most time in-world:
http://stats.slbuzz.com/

Snapzilla holds more pics that a freebie flickr account.

Windows Tweak Guides:
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html

At SL5BD I stumbled on the OpenSim display and this tutorial:
http://opensimuser.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/opensim-install-and-configuration-tutorial

Weblog of Monday 23 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets DIY Yahoo resignation letter:
http://yahoorezinr.com/

Sin Trenton tweets another point of view on the AP versus blogger controversy:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/ap_correct_in_c.html?cid=RSSfeed_IWK_ALL

Personal time tracking with klok:
http://klok.mcgraphix.com/klok/index.htm

Doing business as an avatar:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=318544&intsrc=hm_list

SL Defense Coop:
http://arsvirtua.com/more.php?p=106

Yahoo's MyBlogLog shows who is visiting your sites:
http://www.mybloglog.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyBlogLog

UgoTrade tweets 30 years of hip hop:
http://annieok.com/tangent/?p=738

People tweeting about using lipsync:
http://www.lipsync-mx.com

Weblog of Monday 23 June 2008

Al Kronos tweets DIY Yahoo resignation letter:
http://yahoorezinr.com

Weblog of Sunday 22 June 2008

Power up the game (save the planet):
http://www.powerupthegame.org/

Blender, a free open source 3D content creation suite:
http://www.blender.org/

Hexagon is subdivision modelling software:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexagon_(software)

Ordinal's SL Twitterbadge:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/engine/2007/04/19/the-twitterbadge

Mitch Wagner blogs about AP and copyright law:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/ap_tries_to_sav.html;jsessionid=QTTRQUIDECL3WQSNDLOSKH0CJUNN2JVN

Gwyneth tweets "Mono on the Main Grid":
http://status.secondlifegrid.net/2008/06/20/post130
(But where does she see Mono in this?) And a reminder about what Mono is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono_(software)
In other words, a set of software tools (including C# compiler) that provides .NET compatibililty across different operating systems (Windows, Mac, Linux, UNIX, BSD, Solaris).

Crap blows up NPIRL build:
http://firstlife.isfullofcrap.com/2008/06/kaboom_1.html

Jacek runs two instances of Firefox (RL and SL), by making shortcuts with eg: Firefox.exe -no-remote -P "My Profile" - she has different bookmarks in each profile to be able to tell them apart.

Crap tweets "rezzed and confused" podcasts:
http://rezzedandconfused.com/

Rheta tweets Eloh Eliot on the permissions on "Eloh mods":
http://eloheliot.blogspot.com/2008/06/share-alike.html
Eloh's reference to "psd" seems to mean Photoshop files used in her skins:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#Features

Running SL from a flash card:
http://nwn.blogs.com/nwn/2008/06/how-to-run-seco.html

Weblog of Friday 20 June 2008

Ordinal's freebie giver script:
http://ordinalmalaprop.com/wiki/index.php?title=Script:Freebie_giver_with_illustrations

Sin Trenton uses Twittermail:
http://twittermail.com/tweets/twit/MTk5ODg5

Gwyn links to Microsoft plugin for Firefox:
http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/06/sweet-plugin-microsoft-cake-20-for-firefox-3

Lunette links to SL things to do:
http://www.slthingstodo.com/

Lunette's list of freebie blogs:
http://evoav.blogspot.com/2008/05/freebie-madness.html

Lots of people playing with Will Wright's trial version of Spore Creature Creator:
http://www.spore.com/trial

David Orban's son made a video of his Spore Creature:
http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=02d0PrfCkCI

Lamasoft archive:
http://www.llamasoftarchive.org

Zoomii on-line bookstore (interface to Amazon):
http://zoomii.com/#home

Computer Help

Debugging Windows

Debug Windows Services:
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/02/debuggingsvcs.html

Problems with Trojans

Disable "restore":
http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-me/slow-internet-explorer-execution/44572.html

Computer Help

When I Google "computer help," the first site that pops up is this one:
http://www.computerhope.com/

Weblog of Thursday 19 June 2008

ArminasXsays got relief from SL freezing up by tossing out the entire SL config/prefs folder and starting over.

iAlja yet another person using Ping:
http://ping.fm/

New default avatars:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Default_Avatar_Designers

Botgirl's series on the impact of immersion on emotional processes:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/part-three-of-series-formerly-known-as.html

Green phones using openspime:
http://www.openspime.com/2008/06/18/green-phones-are-coming

Reddit goes open source:
http://laughingsquid.com/reddit-goes-open-source-releases-code-to-public

Wikipedia article about Reddit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Mobile sensors:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mobile_sensors.php

Codeswarm organic software visualization:
http://vis.cs.ucdavis.edu/~ogawa/codeswarm

Le blog des managers 2.0:
http://b-r-ent.com/news/les-prix-intraverse-et-intrablog-2008-avec-philip-rosedale-fondateur-de-second-life-et-linden-lab

Mitch reviews FF3:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=0YFMHX4RR5NEWQSNDLPSKH0CJUNN2JVN?articleID=208700365

Missions set by Passively Multiple Online Games:
http://pmog.com/missions

CSS Zen Garden:
http://csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0

Weblog of Wednesday 18 June 2008

BlossomsK needs friends at stumbleupon:
http://blossomsk.stumbleupon.com/

SecondLife inworld search thingies:
http://secondlife.com/app/search/search.php?hl=en&q=codebastard&s=All
http://islab.org/slsearch

Codie's new sim is called Rouge.

Jacek on early adopters and SL patriots (with comment by Gwyn):
http://jacek.meratalk.com/2008/06/18/early-adopters-pessimists-and-patriots

Louis Gray on 5 stages of early adopter behaviour:
http://www.louisgray.com/live/2008/06/five-stages-of-early-adopter-behavior.html

Virgle (Virgin plus Google) and the open-source planet Mars:
http://www.google.com/virgle

Prokofy on the permission system and Saijanai's JIRA:
http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/06/how-they-sign-y.html

Field Guide to Firefox 3:
http://www.dria.org/wordpress/archives/2008/06/12/655

Set Firefox 3 to launch gmail:
http://lifehacker.com/392287/set-firefox-3-to-launch-gmail-for-mailto-links

Speed testing the web browsers:
http://lifehacker.com/396048/speed-testing-the-latest-web-browsers

Weblog of Tuesday 17 June 2008

Faerie plurks about her post-gender article:
http://www.plurk.com/p/fa4e

Faerie's article on SL as a Post-Gender Society:
http://cala-sl.blogspot.com/2008/06/second-life-is-post-gender-environment.html

OpenSpime launches developer network:
http://www.byetman.com/2008/06/16/openspime-launches-developer-network

OpenSpime Google group:
http://groups.google.com/group/openspime

Final Firefox 3:
http://lifehacker.com/396042/final-firefox-3-state-of-the-add+ons-report

Al Kronos talking about CSD and Wok, the latter turns out to be Web of Knowledge:
http://www.fkf.mpg.de/ivs/Databases_for_MPG.html

In this context: "Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) is a numerical crystallographic database for small organic molecules and proteins."

Launch the ISI Web of Knowledge
http://newface.newisiknowledge.com/

Reuters seems to own ISI Wok (and nowhere is it shown what "ISI" stands for):
http://www.isiwebofknowledge.com/

Schedule an event with Doodle:
http://www.doodle.ch/main.html;jsessionid=08F9479B6307918EFF034D50FC7014F2.prim1

Al Kronos points to "Search read items in Google reader":
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/06/search-read-items-in-google-reader.html

Weblog of Monday 16 June 2008

Ordinal pays to use MindMeister:
http://www.mindmeister.com

Ordinal reports that Linden are deleting content involved in DMCA disputes:
http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/MISC-1278

Al Kronos using a Mediawiki addon for FF to use with FF2. FriendFeed?

OpenSpime developer network:
http://developer.openspime.com

More of my comments

On Al Kronos post about Message in a Bottle:
https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7151616810519208803&postID=561896884173709715

On Botgirl post about Open Source Grids:
http://botgirl.blogspot.com/2008/06/botgirl-on-road-protect-your-virtual.html?showComment=1213264740000#c974956295640586583