Strange’s Second Life Blog

Today Linden Lab announced that they will be using a company called Aristotle’s Integrity for the “first stage” of Identity Verification. The company, based in Washington D.C. is run by John Aristotle Phillips, who once designed an atomic bomb to get himself out of bother at Princeton University. He wrote a book called “Mushroom: The […]

Following up on a previous post (sort of), I found a story from a real life news company that also happens to have a web site, today. Fairfax New Zealand Limited’s site, “Stuff.co.nz” has a story called, Make working fun, says expert. I’m not sure about the 10 to 80 figures that the story has, […]

I haven’t been in-game too often, over the past week. There’s a lot of RL things that I’ve been taking care of. One of them is the purchase of a sailboat, brought about by the effects of the Hollywood sim. My “Home position” in SL is at the Starboards Yacht Club, and more than 50% […]

Something that I’ve been noticing a lot of, lately is blogs that try to call themselves “news” sites. I’m not saying that some blogs don’t deliver some news, but a lot of these blogs really give the writer’s opinion on particular topics. It’s usually not unbiased news, but rather editorial pieces that, if written in […]

Another interesting development in the financial and stock sections of SL, today. Early this morning, the owner of the International Stock Exchange (ISE), Cocky Dagger, decided to put the whole thing up for auction. At this point, it looks like there might not be anybody who buys it. A person who had showed some interest, […]

I really just wanted a place where I can post things about Second Life. My main site seems to be the wrong place to do that, and I don’t want to subject any of my regular readers to “all SL/all the time” type posts. The subdomain was just created about a week ago, and I […]