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Tools, Avatars, and the Self

Tateru Nino poses an intriguing question about why disabled users often become quite attached and identify with their avatars, more so than able-bodied people do: To many such physically impaired...

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The Plug with a Hole in It

Gwyneth Llewelyn recently offered a proposal to try to plug “the analogue hole” that makes content theft inevitable. Her proposal drew a lot of criticism, particularly from open source developers, and...

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Serving simple HTML by LSL script

I’ve written an LSL script which “serves” custom-generated HTML via a neat trick I discovered. But don’t bust out the champagne just yet — this method is extremely limited, so I don’t expect this to...

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Abstract Figure Sculpture

An abstract sculpture I created on a whim. It’s 8 prims, created it in Blender in about 1 hour. You can view it at my friend Skitty’s flower shop in Second Life. The sculpture is not for sale (but the...

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Permissions and Choices

I’ve counted Dusan Writer as a friend (or at least a friendly acquaintance) ever since I met him in the course of his UI design contest a year ago. He’s an interesting personality, and generally an...

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A Blenderaculous Transformation

I’ve been making some positive life changes lately. You know, the usual stuff: eliminating stress, exercising more, focusing on the things in life that are important to me, … and transforming into a...

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A Bittersweet Fourth Rezday

Yesterday, April 22, was my fourth rezday. It was four years ago yesterday that I logged in to Second Life for the first time, and the persona of Jacek Antonelli was born. Yesterday was also the last...

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Creativity, Minecraft, and SL/OS

Lately, I’ve been thinking about Minecraft, a 3D exploring/digging/building game that has been receiving a lot of attention lately. I first started playing Minecraft about a month ago, and it was clear...

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Regarding Client Detection Systems

Every once in a while, some Second Life drama will erupt about a “client detection system” (CDS), a scripted product that supposedly protects your store from content rippers (aka “content thieves”) by...

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Doubleplus Ungood

Last month, Google rolled out its new “Google+” social networking platform, and it enjoyed an enthusiastic reception among metaverse residents, tech bloggers, and others. Google+’s “Circles” feature,...

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