On Second Life Hacks, Sonnets, Fashion Shows
Though fellow GSW blogger TonyW is a bit more of a Second Life expert than I, there's a few SL 'virtual world'-related items that are worth compiling and mentioning in one post. So I will.
Firstly, according to the Second Life Future Salon, a recent virtual appearance by O'Reilly's Phillip Torrone confirmed the existence of a forthcoming 'Second Life Hacks' book. The exuberantly named Hank Hoodoo comments of the attached cover mock-up: "I really hope O'Reilly actually uses that spork on the cover of the real book."
Secondly, Linden Labs' company-funded 'embedded journalist' Hamlet Linden, actually exuberant OldManMurray-mauled bard Wagner James Au, has posted his personal selection of 2005's best 'New World Notes' from Second Life - therein you will find a delicate selection of mind-boggling prose dealing with SL's seamy overbelly this year.
Thirdly, and lastly, the Future Salon has announced an MTV Overdrive-sponsored SL fashion show, and the organizer, MTV's Glitchy Gumshoe, comments breathlessly of the show-to-be on MTV's online video network: "It's gonna be all about exploring and showcasing the doors of imagination that SL provides. This newfound 3d freedom that I sometimes take for granted, and is oft times brushed aside, by the media, and by myself for being too "trekkie."" Wait, are Trekkies 'out' again? Dammit, those Spock ears were expensive to attach.
Comments
The first "hack" I'd like to see is a chapter on "How to make the client run under WINE". I think I'll send a note to O'Reilly.
Posted by: Bob Robertson | December 29, 2005 10:49 AM
We'll have a native Linux version coming soon - it is working internally. Won't need to use WINE
Posted by: Philip Rosedale | December 29, 2005 12:52 PM
The spork should be on there. I think Bub Linden did that graphic design? That should be the actual cover, in any case.
I hope greats like Strife Onizuka are asked for their fave hacks... maaan Strife knows so much. He said recently he's working on an app to tweak settings.ini in a friendlier way. I laughed SOOO hard when I got to change the font to Dominion, see:
http://forums.secondlife.com/showthread.php?t=76041
Also influential to me is Oz Spade. He showed me how you can recolor the interface in case you don't like the defaults. I don't have it as watermelony as I'd like yet, but it'll come along someday.
And I gotta thank Kathmandu Gilman and Cid Jacobs for digging into the client setting files and showing me how to HIDE FOOT SHADOWS (arghhh those abominable plagues!).
A favorite mini-"hack" of mine to quickly load textures in Classifieds listings and the like, is to quickly tap the down arrow so that each one will load and be cached, and then when I get down towards the bottom of the list, I click back at the top again and the images have loaded.
WOWZA all this talk gets me excited!
Looking forward to the book.
Posted by: Torley Torgeson/Torley Wong | December 29, 2005 5:25 PM
I couldn't disagree more, and frankly, am sick of seeing this half-assed, half-supported, barely functional piece of shit touted as some amazing thing. It isn't and it has a hell of a long way to go to be otherwise.
One of the best reviews of this game I ever saw can be found at:
tokendissent.blogspot.com
Let's just say I say 'amen' to that blog entry and leave it at that.
Posted by: Sosha | January 3, 2006 1:13 PM
It's real funny actually. A lot on that blog is lies without evidence to even make it convincing. SL is as good as the players that play them, and I have seen nothing but the best of support from Linden Lab 24/7. They did an amazing thing and it is amazing technology they have created. Anyone to say otherwise is awfully ignorant and clueless.
Like that blog posted above.. Trust me readers, dont take these haters' words for it. They probably got banned for harassment and now they are crying cause they cant play anymore.
Posted by: Disgusted SL User | January 21, 2006 12:54 PM
Oh, and yes, I ahve made thousands of dollars already from SL, tyvm *gives the dumb people the finger*
Posted by: Disgusted SL user | January 21, 2006 12:56 PM
http://secondlife.com/showcase/media.php
Go to this link above, watch the movie trailers, see what SL is all about, *NUKE THE HATERS*
Posted by: Disgruntled SL user | January 21, 2006 1:00 PM
Do you people actually like it? It's crap from what I know, but as they say - many people, many minds, as long as it makes you happy....
Posted by: Olga Moore | March 17, 2007 3:57 AM
SL is a piece of shit. It crashes all teh time .. Its not functional.
Posted by: tim | April 17, 2007 10:59 PM
queria saber si me pueden pasar algun hack para second life, de cualquier tipo... lo unico que quiero es hacer trampa...hahaha please mi mail es pas_sjn@hotmail.com
Posted by: pablo | December 27, 2007 12:54 PM