Strange’s Second Life Blog

Later tonight, the new episode of CSI: NY will be shown and will coincide with the release of a new Second Life viewer. The AOLized viewer from Electric Sheep, called OnRez will be available for new users that sign up to SL through the CBS web site and to current residents. Some people are estimating [...]

Coming from the camp that “software wants to be free”,  this is something that just caught my eye. I just wanted to post it here as a reference, for now. With my laptop still in the shop, I need a way to bookmark sites, somehow (other than del.icio.us). I haven’t had any time to look [...]

I just want to preface this post by saying that I did not have any money tied up with Jasper Tizzy, The Bank, or anything else that he was connected to. I met him in a casino, one day and we started talking about web sites and hosting. He approached me as if he wanted [...]

There are many different kinds of discussions that take place, every day, but one of the big discussions that I attended, yesterday was really “strange”. What was supposed to be a discussion about a religious sect opening a couple islands in SL, and the ramifications that it might have in the rest of SL turned [...]

Mainstream media keeps heading right down the same path, it seems. Just as I thought that Second Life bashing was about to end, another “SL Doomsday” writer points out all of the evils that she can find with the platform (which she refers to as a “Web site”). Scripps Howard News Service writer, Bonnie [...]

Even though I will not be verifying my age with Linden Lab, I will be posting a lot of real life information and a short auto-biography on SL Reports. The decision to post the contact information for the Board of Directors was made at our latest meeting, on September 30th. The decision was made as [...]

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 [...]