I hate it when the Ship’s Mind blows off office hours.

June 5, 2008 – 11:28 pm

Taken at Purgatorio, while wearing the Steam Sparrow Robot avatar by mochi Rokocoko.

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The Victorian Culture

May 3, 2008 – 8:32 pm

I found an airship avatar at Grendel’s Children.

It’s great for tooling around Steampunk sims like Babbage Square.
And as you see in the photo below, it’s small. Great for days you want to be a Steampunk version of a drone from Ian M. Banks’ Culture novels.

Hey, wait, I was on a GSV with that guy.

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Saturday Music: Virtual Electropop and Missed Synergies

March 29, 2008 – 5:41 pm

I just bought music off of MySpace from a band that only appears in a virtual world.
But to do that, I had to sign up for yet another vendor, Snocap. Fortunately, they use PayPal, so I didn’t have have to give them a credit card.
However, I wish that MySpace would had struck a deal with [...]

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Book on the history of virtual worlds available for free download

February 28, 2008 – 12:22 pm

Julian Bell released his book Tiny Life, about the text-based LambdaMOO virtual world of the 1990’s, as a free PDF download. LambdaMOO is one of Second Life’s ancestors.
He wanted to release it under a Creative Commons license, but ran into complications.
Thanks to Aleks Linden for the heads up.

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