- Linden Lab Still Looking For Engineering VP To Help Define Future Of Second Life — Now Open To Remote Hires Based In 10 Oddly Specific US States
- Linden Dollars Helped Fuel Bitcoin's Early Hype — Even Though L$ Are Still More Used Than BTC Should The Federal Reserve Create A Virtual Currency? Former Linden Lab Exec Gene Yoon Has Advice Based On Managing Second Life's $500M+ Virtual Economy
- SL Users In Regions That Ban Skill Games — Are You Being Auto-Banned From Regions Even Though They Don't Host Skill Games?
- Quest Owner Survey: Will Ads In Apps Change Which Ones You Buy & Use
- Visit The Candle-Lit Ebbe Altberg Memorial On Altberg Island In Second Life
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Hypnotic Romance, an SL sim with secluded spaces for couples. Click here to teleport.
The Virtual Worlds Museum. Click here to teleport to their Second Life hub with tribute to sunsetted worlds!
“TV POWWW!” by Tom Boellstorff & Braxton Soderman. Read about the first televised videogame here.
The Fitting Room: Try out new SL fits in a secure, private space. Click here to teleport.
Breedables CoOp, helping the SL pet community grow through shared resources. Go here to get started.
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Click here to visit and pay your respects; there are candles on his memorial, and when you touch them, they light. (And fittingly, they also burn out over time.) A site created by the Linden Moles, I've visited several times, and there are usually a few others gathered there to pay their respects.
And yes yes, I know it's Second Life's official 18th anniversary right now, but if you're an active SLer, you already knew that. So my thought to end this weekend is to take some time sharing some thoughts to the person who did much to insure the virtual world's survival for years to come.
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Click here to visit the 725th Street Bar, a ship-based food and drink establishment perfect for dates and other social get-togethers in SL — and which now serves food and drink compatible with the Really Needy HUD (a sponsoring partner to New World Notes), so that a meal consumed there fills the Hunger and Thirst meters of anyone wearing the Sims-like roleplay system. (More about that here.)
Bar owner Drogo Bartholy, who even employs live waitstaff to serve his customers, added the Really Needy system to further enhance users’ experience:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
Deux Looks is Gillian Waldman’s fashion blog. Like most people, her focus at the moment is on Hair Fair, the venerable fundraising event for Wigs For Kids. In today’s post, “Next Up from Hair Fair,” she is featuring a beautiful floral headband from Bauhaus. I love how she styled this with a lovely floral dress with fluttery sleeves and floral earrings. Bauhaus is in the Noirette region. Tableau Vivant is in the Blonde region.
- Hairbase: Tableau Vivant \ leLutka EvoX Hairbase 15 **@Hair Fair**
- Bun: Tableau Vivant \ Anna Bun **@Hair Fair**
- Earrings: Bauhaus – Emily Earrings **@Hair Fair – Gift**
- Headband: Bauhaus – Eyre Headpiece – Teal **@Hair Fair**
- Dress: Pixicat– Lucy Dress – FlowerSummer **@FLF**
For more of Gillian’s picks from Hair Fair, click here:
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Adeon Writer, a virtual world explorer whose real world home base is Arizona, was recently searching for games to play in Second Life and found himself unable to access a Second Life region because it had been tagged has having Skill Games — i.e. a non-gambling game which has a L$ payout. (See above.)
And the thing is, he wasn't going there to play a Skill Game, just a standard game without cash rewards. "I usually expect to get blocked from ones that say Casino'" in the description, as he puts it, but this particular one only had "Play Games" in the region name.
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
SaNY is taking a look at the world from a different perspective in, “If you surround yourself with people who are Light, you will see everything clearer.” Especially if they have flashlights! I love the quirky humor in this picture. There’s a bit of humor in a lot of her work. She is also a brand-new blogger (started four days ago!) who, if her photostream is any indication, will focus on swimwear, lingerie, and athleisure.
For some calendar fare, click here:
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The United States Federal Reserve is seriously looking into the idea of creating an official US$ virtual currency — a move, as Politico explains, "that could shake up banks, give millions of low-income Americans access to the financial system."
Before doing that, however, the Fed might want to read this white paper memo addressed to Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, written for the Aspen Institute's tech policy hub. It's authored by Gene Yoon, who has some important if remarkably quirky experience with virtual currency, as a lead executive with Linden Lab during Second Life's peak period of economic growth.
"I had my time managing a 'toy' digital currency back at Linden Lab," as he puts it on Twitter. "At its height, the L$ was used in over half a billion real USD worth of transactions per year. I think the US Fed would be making a mistake in moving forward with this — the mistake is only in going Fed-first. The United States has a wonderful advantage in 'the laboratory of the states' – experimental policies can more safely be trialed at the state level."
There is, Gene tells me, a specific example of something that happened with the Second Life economy that feeds into his advice to Secretary Yellen now:
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Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I love Existence’s photostream. His pictures are incredibly natural and realistic. It sets a mood which is augmented by his choice of music, “Small Light” by Message to Bears. This makes me think of Washington’s Long Beach in January, the very best time to visit as nearly everyone is staying inside so you can almost have the beach to yourself. Of course, it’s not ideal for swimming, but for walking.
I asked him if he had any comments and he demurred, “It just is all about feeling, your mind is a lens and telling a story. Photography that keeps me going forward.Everyone has their own perspective, recognition, or emotion about photography pictures, which makes it unique.”
For more a more sun-drenched picture, click here:
