I’ve got some little things today, while I’m working on my other writing and a bigger post for next week: Relay for Life Did you know that more than $2 million has been donated to the American Cancer Society over the past decade through its presence in Second Life? Or that as of last summer,…
I’ve been considering this recent post by Penny Patton about Second Life avatar render weight*, in which she explains how she quartered the processing cost to render her avatar with little overall difference to her appearance (h/t to @Wurfi for leading me to the post). Penny has written about this in the past and on SL forums. I’d like…
One Billion Rising is in two weeks, with events around the globe and also in the virtual world Second Life. “One Billion Rising is the biggest mass action to end violence against women in human history. The campaign, launched on Valentine’s Day 2012, began as a call to action based on the staggering statistic that 1 in 3…
[First, a brief update on my SL partner Jakob’s condition, since some of you have kindly asked: He is out of the Intensive Care Unit and has written me two brief emails in the past couple days. He’s writing in German and calling me by my SL alt’s name… but I can read German, and that is…