Over the weekend I made good on my decision to close down my business venture within Second Life. After setting all my products for free during the last couple of days, I held an impromptu gathering of people for some quick words and the catastrophic destruction of the sim that I realized was almost a [...]

October will hold the fifth anniversary of when I joined Second Life under the name I came to refer to as my "main" account. I dabbled in it under various other identities prior to that but I never understood what it was really for and would often get bored after a few minutes (or an [...]

Something that's captured my attention recently is the GroBoto 3D modeling program from Braid Arts Labs. I discovered it by chance the other day as I was rummaging through submissions to deviantART, trying to find a new wallpaper image for my computer. I saw a piece that was really striking and the artist explained that [...]

Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, recently held a "Resident Choice Awards" contest to solicit nominations and votes for residents' "favorite" places in-world. When results were announced it was very predictably a popularity contest of who could get the most friends to vote on their behalf; with only 6000 people even bothering to participate [...]