Support The Myanmar Monks
At this moment, there is an in-world support of the protests in Myanmar/Burma. We are keeping the avatar chain (it is hard to call it a human chain) and occupying at least two sims. One is completely full, I think there is some space on the other. We'll spread to the next one if needed.
Is Playing Opposite Sex Really A Sin?
Chinese MMORPG King of the World implemented an interesting way of gender verification (via SLinsider and Pacific Epoch:
Aurora stipulates that only female gamers can play female characters in the game, and it requires gamers who chose female characters to prove their biological sex with a webcam.
ROFL
Serbia Is Entering Second Life
Last night in Jazz Institute, Belgrade, 8PM (11AM SLT) Serbia opened its island in Second Life.
Whose Legislature Is This?
We all know that gambling is banned from second life because U.S. government doesn't allow its residents to gamble on-line. And because they cannot nobody can. We also know that China doesn't want their residents to read things about Dalai Lama, Falun Gong and many more stuff on the internet. So they use a pretty large amount of processing power to block all the content they don't like. But, more or less, all this is employment of software against own residents. It can be much much worse. Read more…
Why Identity Verification Is Not Going To Work
What to do than to continue about identity verification of second life residents? Not that I can offer much answers. It is up to Lindens to answer our concerns, and it is obvious that they don't want to answer, don't know the answers, that they're buying their time or just play another stupid strategy. There is one thing we can be sure about: it is not going to work. Read more…
What Is The Restricted Content?
As the wave of talking about identity verification (IDV) in second life drove back, it was time to push things up again. Today, Everett Linden had an unpleasant duty to come up before the residents and fire up an another provoking blog post. Everett was there to remind us about upcoming change of the rules and not to clarify what the restricted content is. Read more…
Wild Market
If the whole second life is crazy how to expect that its market behave differently? For example, can you tell what is expected to pay for a house or a set of textures? No, you can not. Prices ranges from a dozen lindens to couple of thousands. Yes, prices are different in the first life too, but those are based on quality and other reasons. In second life, logic is not rezzed yet. Read more…
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