Cold dead hand of Frank Herbert reaches up from grave, stabs Dune Second Life megafans in the back – Boing Boing

Werribee and other members received legal notices from Linden Lab via Trident Media Group, a New York literary agency which maintains the Herbert Estate. “In particular,” the notice reads, “Trident Media Group has complained about your use of characters, concepts and other material associated with ‘Dune’ in the Second Life environment.” Those include roleplay locations [...]

Business, and Startups, in Second Life

Using Second Life to Prototype..

“Virtual worlds, of which Second Life is the most populous, are becoming more than just a place where Web surfers socialize, play games, or sell nonexistent products to imaginary people. Increasingly, tech-savvy businesses are using virtual worlds to design, create, and even test product concepts before they make their debut in [...]

Congress Goes Virtual

Hm.. Not sure what to think of this one. In what appears to be a PR move of some kind, Congress held a subcomittee hearing about online virtual worlds in Second Life. The actual setup was complicated, and I’ll leave it to the article to explain, but I will throw a spoiler and say that [...]

TonHalle, SchlossTurm and other German goodies

Well, I have not posted much for a few days and this is why. This is a wire frame view from Second Life of the TonHalle and SchlossTurm in Düsseldorf Germany. Jack, myself and several others have been commissioned to reproduce a significant amount of the landscape for a joint real-world/Second Life event. The [...]

What is second life?

Well friend.. leme tell ya..

Artist build session 3/4/08

In this session Rez showed everyone the rotating sculpt texture scripts. This one is a little tricky.. When you rez a prim in SL, like a box, its square. Normally you can apply any texture to it and make it look like any square thing you want. A sculpt texture on the other hand, is [...]

On a more serious personal note…

This post is going to be necessarily vague. I’m writing it more for my own edification and to commemorate the day as opposed to providing any real information to outside sources. Astute readers may have pieced together that not everything in my life is the perfect ideal that one would wish for.
Well, last night certain [...]

Second Life VAA Photohunt

Tonight we held our first real Photo Hunt for the VAA. The basic idea is, you show up, get a place or a theme, then you have an hour to take the best snapshot you can and get back to submit it. All the entries are voted on, and the top pics get cash [...]

Artist build session 2/26/08

Last night the Virtual Artist Alliance held another Artists building session. These sessions are designed to show new and experienced users new techniques in scripting and building in Second Life. This week we went over particle paths. The demostration code and objects showed how to rez particles on one object and have them automatically flow [...]

Second Life tutorials from Torly Linden

Holy crap these are useful. Even the basic ones tend to drop a new nugget of information..
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Video_Tutorials