Smiley’s Blog

As previously mention on Vint Falken’s blog, a jerk named “Richard Minsky” has trademarked the term “SLart” as his own. He has sent “cease-and-desist” letters to all currently who keep a website stating the term “SLart”, including but not limited to, the SLart Wiki, Rezzable’s SLart website, etc.

And so, give me the honor to do the following. *Clears throat* Me me me me MEE… (Tests vocals) This goes to you, Richard:

SLART!

Before I begin, I want to say a quick opening fact: PCs SUCK!.

Why did I just say that? Well, let’s look at the facts, shall we?

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After seeing Linden have just set out a new policy against inworld banks without a license, I began to wonder: Will our grid comply? I wonder this because, lately, some parts have failed to comply with Second Life standards. (E.g.: Spam on Mainlands, breaking the peace multiple times, weapons on Sandbox Islands, etc.) Even temporary mature skyboxes appear once in a while. This should light up one or more warning lights to Linden: What the f*** are you doing? Pay attention to our grid’s status! .

There has been a new bank lately, which I know is trusted — the owner’s a friend of mine. Now, this locks out options for us teens — if we ever “go over the laws of our conscious and reason”, our parents can punish us — since we cannot get a “permit”. We are minors, obviously. Plus, ~90,000 residents don’t make a hell of a difference in Second Life, since we’re a tiny part of the 11,000,000+ database, or at least the 1,200,000+ (says to be 1,227,xxx , I remember it being 1,500,xxx a while ago — what happened?) active residents.

Now, after setting a link to the post I bet i’ll appear on the sites that have started a blog post regarding that page. (I forgot the official word — what was it?) Go ahead Lindens and read this, i’m just stating the facts.

So, in conclusion, Linden Lab should pay attention to what’s happening on our grid, or soon it’s going to bite ‘em back when the teens move to the main grid, or even worse, if the media gets to them first.

(Have you noticed I used no emoticons at all in this post? Weird )

I have recently tagged a few of Torley’s photos from Second Life, and seeing as he just places a link to the location, it reminded me of asking you guys this: why is no one using the “secondlife:region”, “secondlife:x”, “secondlife:y”, and “secondlife:z” tags for photos? First, the “secondlife:region” tag would do great if someone wants to look up photos from a particular region. Second, there is a very popular Greasemonkey script which uses these machine tags to put a little note on the side with region coordinates and a teleportation link:

  Taken and made by Jessica Shannon

The script adds a little teleportation link, as you see, to either a SLURL map location or inworld — haven’t used it in a while — and simplifies the process of looking for the teleportation link and teleporting. (If I knew the Greasemonkey API, i’d make a big shiny “Teleport” button next to it.) In addition, this is also useful for computer bots. For example, an inworld bot that scans Flickr photos and shows them inworld, could supply a teleportation link, if the photo has appropriate machine tags. Because currently, some using SLURL, some SLBuzz, and a few more use an unknown source, so the computer application searching for the teleportation link, may not find it.

And so, I ask you: use the Second Life machine tags! There is information about each tag below:

• secondlife:region=[REGION NAME HERE]
• secondlife:x=[X COORDINATES HERE] 
• secondlife:y=[Y COORDINATES HERE] 
• secondlife:z=[Z COORDINATES HERE] 

A cool song I found lately, and is very smooth and nice to listen to. Music and lyrics below, courtesy of the I-don’t-believe-no-one-sued-them-already-for-illegal-music-uploading eSnips.

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I don’t have statistics, but judging by the low number of, *clears throat*, 0 comments per post ((Except Vint’s once in a while… THANKS! .)) , I need you readers to start commenting, even if it’s a discussion about it, and bring in more people to this teen-resident’s blog.

Please? Pretty please?

P.S.: Second Lounge News is now being set up, i’ll soon make a post!

[UPDATE @ 02/01/08 5:05pm UTC+2: Seems the WP-Polls plugin isn't working - says no polls are available. Stupid plugin! :???: .] 

Hello, and welcome to 2008! To your right is the new year celebrations and to your left, real life We suggest going right, and party ’till 2009 before going left . I have no idea for a gift, sorry but still, its the thought that counts, right? right? . What do YOU think was the most awesome feature of Second Life this year?

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Answer the poll! Really, I need PEOPLE voting for it, so link to it please .