Looks like CNN is coming to Second Life.  I wonder if Anderson Cooper will be hanging out at any Dark Eden parties….  I’m sure he would have a good time there.  He could do one of those 360 degree specials.  I can only imagine how that would go.

Anyone know where they’re lurking in Second Life yet?

One thing I miss is that all these private islands are not “connected” to the mainland.  Too bad that walking or driving between sims sucks so badly.  You could have like roving parties rampaging through the world.  Pillaging all in their path….

-Veyron

Well, I haven’t seen it work yet, but this might be a critical app for you fashion conscious.  A de-Ruthing tool.  We all pretty much hate being Ruthed.  The Autoderuth Tool by Dougal Jacobs is a free-to-copy-and-distribute gift to the grid.  You can get the HUD at the Linden Lifestyles Headquarters.

-Veyron

Dilbert is coming to Second Life.   Kula sims on October 30th at 6 pm SLT.  Freebies to be given away.

Now I wonder if the Dilbert avatar will be showing up, or the Scott Adams avatar will be showing up.  My next question is, will there be a kissing both for Dilbert or Scott Adams?  And will there be strippers?  Hopefully Wally will not be one of the strippers.

-Veyron

Now this is a cool gun….  LOL!

The Glambo Signature Series “My Little Pony” M4A1 carbine with forward handgrip and AN-PVS4 night vision sight. The perfect way to introduce your little princess to the wonders of nocturnal wet-work!

I wonder if Zoe would like this….

But I do like the Hilton handcuffs.

I wonder if they take Lindens as payment.

-Veyron

Yup, it’s the party everyone always complains about missing.  Here’s your chance to be at one.  It’s a good idea to arrive early as the sim will fill up - it always does.  And the party almost always does turn wild.  I’m also hoping that Aimee Weber will show up.  I promise not to submit any more pictures of Aimee to the Avastar at these parties - once was enough.  But she might look cute modeling some of Etain’s boots.  Etain thinks that Aimee will never show up again for one her parties, that would be too bad, because Aimee is a lot of fun.

-Veyron

Okay bloggers - time for a game.  I haven’t seen a meme game in play for a while, so I’m going to start one that might be “historically useful”.  Lots of you seem to be coming up (or maybe even passed) on your rezz day.

Remember where you first rezzed?  Not n00b island, but the infohub you popped out into the world of Second Life in?  Was it memorable enough for you to remember now?  I entered the world of Second Life at the Bear infohub.  The Bear infohub is pretty cool, with a North woods cabin motif, complete with a bear.  It was almost a cozy place to be.  Certainly a lot better than the mega infohubs they have now.

Rumor has it that Linden Labs is slowly demolishing the older, cooler infohubs and selling off the land.  Some of them are lost forever.  Here’s the game, first, remember where you entered SL.  So, let’s try to save some pictures of these places before they are gone.  Take some photos of your original info hub and post them to your blog.  If you don’t have a blog, post them to flickr, or maybe Google Pages, Google Web Picassa, or some other similar place.

Post a link back to this post, and comment here that you’ve made a set of snapshots.  Then maybe we can put together a booklet or something of some of these now older, cool places before they’re gone.

-Veyron

Okay, I think I’m getting close to Social Network overload - maybe there is such a thing as too much of a good thing.  You know it’s bad when you see a new web application like Fuser come along - which helps aggregate email, IM accounts and social networks, and you’re upset it doesn’t aggregate enough of them.  Anyway, Alja Sul?i? has a cool blog post on some tools to integrate Facebook with Second Life.  I have a Facebook profile now, but it seems to me to be a bit weird and quirky - not sure if it’s really my thing.  It certainly seems like a lot of work to keep it kept up to date.

Maybe these tools might make it more interesting….

-Veyron

ROBOTS!!

Well now, isn’t that special.  36% of the votes are in for robots, tinies came in second with 28%.

Hmmm….  This is going to be interesting.  I now have an excuse to put together this robot avatar I’ve had in my inventory for ages.

-Veyron

Okay, I’m going to close the poll for the next blogger party at 9pm SL time. That is in the next few hours. So, if you haven’t voted yet, now is your chance…. Looks like we’re going to have prizes and maybe more at the party. Should be a good time….

Well, here’s an interesting and amusing little thing to play with….  I wonder who Vint, Zoe, Tiessa and maybe even Wrath look alike?  I also wonder who I’m related to in Second Life? And can you be related to someone in Second Life? Is that someone with the Supercharge surname? hmmm….

-Veyron

It’s a good thing I’m an avatar.  I like being more or less (as far as I know) indestructible.  Barring an act of Linden Labs or inventory loss, I’m tougher than Wile E. Coyote.  I’ve taken more damage, mangling, folding, and spindling than should possibly be even contemplated.  I can fall from stratospheric heights, and land with just a little boink.  I can hold my breath indefinitely.  I’ve gone weeks without eating food.  I can even go on really long trips without needing to go potty.

With the new-ish movie Vint saw, Sicko, I thought more seriously about the ills of real life people.  While it’s an interesting movie, it’s of course from an interesting person.  Whatever the case, I certainly am glad I am not going to get ill.  After I read this shocking report on how the world death rate for real life people is holding steady at 100%.  This terrifying fact holds that billions upon billions of dollars spent each year have had not an iota of effect on the death rate.

From the article:

“I was really hoping, what with all those new radiology treatments, rescue helicopters, aerobics TV shows and what have you, that we might at least make a dent in it this year,” WHO Director General Dr. Gernst Bladt said. “Unfortunately, it would appear that the death rate remains constant and total, as it has inviolably since the dawn of time.”

Many are suggesting that the high mortality rate represents a massive failure on the part of the planet’s health care workers.

I personally am glad to see the politicians getting involved in solving this really serious issue.  You know that when things get tough and serious, you can depend on a politician to make a speech.

“Everybody talks about death,” Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) said, “but nobody seems to actually be doing anything about it. I propose we stop molly-coddling death, not to mention the multi-billion-dollar hospital, mortuary, funeral and burial industries that reap huge profits from it.”

Under Domenici’s new bill, all federal funds will be withheld from the medical industry until it “gets serious and starts cracking down on death.”

I certainly am glad the only thing I have to fear is derezzing.  Maybe we need to hold a fund raising campaign and a focus group to raise awareness of this issue….

-Veyron

So, I was dancing away at the Dark Eden party last a little while back and low and behold, a famous celebrity shows up…  Aimee Weber.  Slightly amused and then suddenly I think - “hmm, this might be time to snap a few pictures….”  Then after taking a few shots and seeing she was still around, maybe it was kind of amusing…  the Dark Eden party is a rather wild party and here’s Aimee partying away.  But then the chatting seemed to move on to more mundane Second Life things and less risque activities than this party usually has.  Anyway, the party ended and then I though, maybe this would be some good public relations for Dark Eden and Devil Made Me Do It and the rest of the Dark Eden mall owners to get into the … Avastar … and Aimee is for sure of interest to them.

Being rash, and more than willing to of course get into trouble, I fired off some pictures to the Avastar.   Well, about two and half minutes later, I was have a mild case of regret, but of course it was too late now….  Cover and page 14, as you can see.  Rather amusing text, which *I* didn’t write (but certainly looks like I could have….)  And she did keep her wings on the whole time. 

So Aimee, if you’re mad at me, I’m sorry.  But I think they say, there’s no such thing as bad PR…. 

-Veyron

Those WoW players are more perverted than us Second Life players. This machinima video for sure confirms it.

-Veyron

Darth Pope, originally uploaded by Fun Fapp.

Use the rosary Luke…. LMAO

-Veyron

This is a great post by lashxevious, How not to Charm a girl in SL. Covering some obvious points like moving too fast, cheesy lame Casanovary, IM whoring, Muscley-Caveman-Fabio drool, and of course Desecrating Dante. I haven’t seen too many of the big ugly out of proportion guys. You know with the giant arms and shoulders and tiny little heads? ::sigh:: Maybe that should be a contest?

-Veyron