tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16386642456960213542011-12-26T03:36:12.531+01:00Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-90791807750107489452011-12-26T03:33:00.004+01:002011-12-26T03:36:12.537+01:00

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-81091102639080572262010-12-23T14:35:00.002+01:002010-12-23T14:43:30.385+01:00

Oh hai! In case you're wondering, I probably won't finish the extensive review of Viewer 2 anytime soon. It's been several months, and to be honest, I haven't been using SL at all in that time. So I haven't had a chance to get annoyed by the Viewer. Why? Well, I kind of lost interest. There's nothing really that attracts me anymore. I'm not giving up or leaving SL or anything like that, it's just

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Ok, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 3Hey, now I closed the Address bar, I don't see my current location anymore. Let's just look in the menus to see if there's anything that

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Ok, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 2We're off to set our Preferences, so let's just for now get rid of all these buttons in the bottom bar (where I ended part 1), I like the

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Ok, so SL Viewer 2 is now the official viewer. So I suppose they've put a lot of thought and work into it, making sure the most obvious (and easily fixed) bugs are gone and it's more user-friendly than any viewer ever could be. Let's have a look.This is part 1Ok, that looks rather... dark. And big and clunky, really. And there's a lot of unused (read: wasted) space, on the menu bar, on the

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-32444565453118741762009-09-09T17:48:00.003+02:002009-09-09T18:08:29.877+02:00

Today has been declared The Day Without Cats by urlesque.com. Now I ask you! What is this madness! According to several joining the ban, it is to give our beloved cats a break. They're performing their cattesque tricks on the interwebz every single day, they should have a day off once in a while. But is is my humble opinion that ignoring cats on the nets all day is not going to help our fuzry

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As it seems a lot of people totally adore plugins, I thought I'd come up with some ideas if their precious plugins would be used in the same way in the outside world. Then let's reconsider if they're still so cool or if plugins truly suck.Analogy 1I am Dutch. I barely speak German. If I'd meet someone from Germany, chances are they don't speak Dutch. Now how would I tell them something I think

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In response to the blogpost Introducing the LLMedia API I commented that plugins suck. And they do. Suck donkeys. Big time. Let me tell you why:For example I use plugins in webbrowsers, because I think that is what's most commonly known.1. They kill your content.So you spent hours of creating the perfect Flash banner + menu + navigation bar. It looks great, has some minor sounds that people can

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-65659528650430311562009-06-06T16:00:00.002+02:002009-06-06T16:08:59.448+02:00

Have you drawn today? If not, you should :P After all, it's Drawing Day. In case you want to know, it's every first Saturday of June. It started last year, in 2008. So now is the 2nd edition. And may I say, I think this year's entry of mine is better than last year's.I made a nice vid of my drawing:If you want to see my drawing a little better, you can do so on deviantART.OH! And if you have

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It's coming! Remember Drawing Day 08? Well this year, it'll be same, but better! Personally, I hope I can find the time to draw something too, so this year we'll get even closer to the goal of 1 million drawings made for Drawing Day.Oh yeah, did I mention it will be held on 6 June 2009? Yes, that's this Sunday. So get your gear together and draw!Also check out this cool video:

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I'm terribly excited right now. In just a few hours from now (May 15, 10 pm CEST), Wolfram|Alpha will open its doors. The extra cool thing is they'll be doing a live webcast of the behind-the-scenes process. So yes, I'm sure you'll be jumping up and down with excitement as you're reading this too, right?If not, you may not realize the potential Wolfram|Alpha (I'll be calling it Wolpha from now on

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So when I wake up in the morning (or usually, afternoon) and go check my e-mail to see if that cutie finally answered my Valentine's Day card (sent back in 2007, but you have to keep hoping), I usually see something like this:All received SL Group Notices while I was offline. It's been like this ever since I joined SL over 2 years ago. By now it's part of my daily routine to simply click the '

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-61568136556923645702008-11-17T16:24:00.002+01:002008-11-17T16:50:51.299+01:00

I really hadn't expected this. I just made a simple, quick animation and thought it'd be cool already if it'd just be put online somewhere. Of course I put it online myself, but I've done that before, so I knew what to expect, what would happen. And that it should take months to see if it had any effect. But now this all happened in a week.But what happened, you may ask. You see, I was a bit

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-89695134565696302342008-10-29T22:34:00.004+01:002008-10-29T22:56:43.074+01:00

I recently did on-set sound recording for two short horror films, both produced by Media Republic. I got them both on dvd, but I never knew they were online, until now. I thought it'd be cool to show them on here too, hopefully you enjoy them. As they're scary movies, they should be just right for Halloween.I'd like to add today's my 29th birthday. That's completely off-topic though.Oh, and the

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-28503074756881568252008-09-29T18:35:00.007+02:002008-09-30T06:33:00.032+02:00

You may have heard of GraphJam. Especially if you regularly visit sites like ICHC. Then you know what it is. If not, let me try to explain.GraphJam is a site with, as the name implies, graphs. Afaik initially started out as graphs about songs, for example lyrics breakdowns. But the song chart meme became a bit lame, after the 8th Doo Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Doo graph.So people also started

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Big Bang - a universe is born.We travel through space and time, to a planet called Earth, where in Switzerland at CERN a particle accelerator known as the LHC shoots two protons into eachother. And deep within that LHC...Big Bang - a universe is born.We travel through space and time...What if -we- are living on a yet undiscovered particle deep within an enormous LHC?(If you don't get it: this is

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I once found a link in the Revver forums to the ugcDb. I was told I should register there. I followed the link, but couldn't easily figure out what it was and how it worked, so I left it, thinking I'd check it out sometime later.As it turned out, 'later' was now. I registered yesterday and that already made it clearer to me what it's for.First, the name. User Generated Content Database. Is that a

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-23965847204286860172008-08-24T01:54:00.007+02:002008-08-24T02:30:07.094+02:00

I was playing and experimenting with iMovie's built-in time-lapse function and decided it'd be cool to make a 24 hour recording with it.I did some testing (among which a 5 hour cloud movement recording compressed to 5 minutes) and paid attention to the weather forecast as the camera would be partially outside and I didn't want rain on it. 16 August seemed to be the perfect day, so I set it all up

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Yes, you can! For all the broken hearted people out there (and those feeling sorry for them), I designed this cool t-shirt. Can be printed on white or several colours dark shirts. Do check out my Cafepress shop to see all options.[Update 23 Jul] Now also available in more Euro-friendly Spreadshirt shop.Heart and text designed by me, drawn by hand, then modelled in Blender, blood splatter and

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-15054723448631153182008-06-07T18:00:00.002+02:002008-06-07T18:09:31.397+02:00

Yes, I participated too in Drawing Day 08. The problem though is that I can't draw. But I thought, compare something bad to something that's even worse and it won't look so terrible, so I drew "The artist who couldn't draw but still participated in Drawing Day 08". It is available for everybody's joy and excitement under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 license on deviantART. And

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Today, first Saturday of June, we celebrate Drawing Day. A day on which we remember the joy we had when we first picked up a pencil and created a piece of art. Well I don't remember my first pencil, nor do I know how joyful that experience was, but I do like this idea.There's no real goal to achieve, although Mick Gow (who I think is head of the project) and his team are hoping for 1 million

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-81013026136544658762008-06-01T01:36:00.004+02:002008-06-01T02:21:53.936+02:00

Yeah, I know, it's a good while ago by now, but I really needed to give my opinion on this matter. You see, the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was won by the wrong country.I don't have anything against Russia in general, it's just that their song sucked. Sucked bad. As a musician, I know what I'm talking about and I know what's good and what's terribly bad. Or at least I think I know. And therefor,

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-4994319827062161272008-06-01T01:14:00.003+02:002008-06-01T01:21:38.620+02:00

Ayumi Cassini made this cool video ad for SLang Life magazine. Check it out and if you haven't subscribed yet, then what are you waiting for? It's a completely free subscription, it won't cost you even a penny. So there's really no reason for you not to subscribe. Now. Well, after watching this video.Now you can go ahead and subscribe.

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-14666664202147429472008-05-25T00:34:00.004+02:002008-06-01T02:46:23.320+02:00

You're probably wondering if I was gone then. Yes, I was actually, for a while, for the reasons listed below...First of all, I went on vacation at the end of April, first week of May. Destination Istria, Croatia. As usual, I have photographic evidence. :P So I was gone for a week, but that still was a fun absense (for me anyway).Second, and this is the no-fun part, I had some severe hard disk

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-69068272487690999262008-04-11T00:43:00.006+02:002008-04-11T01:41:36.543+02:00

Imagine you've been away for a weekend or a week and haven't been on SL. Whenever you log in again, surely you have some IMs waiting, some Inventory offers, some Group Notices. No big problem, you read it, check it all out and do what you came inworld for. Now imagine you have lots of IMs and Inventory offers every single day!A while ago I saw a site made by a Linden with a small storyline about

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-9567276225377634422008-03-30T21:50:00.006+02:002008-03-30T22:23:23.526+02:00

A short while back, Linden Lab announced a new project, the Linden Department of Public Works (LDPW). Of course it also got a page on the SL wiki, on which they asked Residents to come up with region names for the first large LDPW project, Bay City.The LDPW was launched to build Linden objects and stuff with help of the Resident community. Residents can apply for a job in the LDPW as 'mole

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-19619614898951041702008-02-21T02:23:00.003+01:002008-02-22T00:07:14.493+01:00

It all went so fast. One day I happily paid my L$600 rent for the next month. The next day I found it was refunded. Must've been an error, I figured, however, there was an accompanying Group Notice. Oyster Bay Sculpture Garden and Aquarium was closing.Oh surely I never had the illusion it would exist for thousands of years, but surely no-one would've thought it'd be there for just over one year.

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-24371119039093098312008-01-26T22:29:00.000+01:002008-01-26T23:21:24.718+01:00

I was pleased this week to find an envelope in the RL snail-mail labelled with the SLang Life logo. About a month ago it was brought to my attention by Ayumi Cassini. She told me it would be a RL magazine about SL. Subscription and delivery would be completely free! So I subscribed myself and the rest, as they say, is history.I didn't yet read the entire magazine, as it's 40 pages, including ads

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-30290776161209867162007-12-25T00:35:00.000+01:002007-12-25T00:39:57.770+01:00

To all my readers (and fans), have a very merry, happy Christmas! And if you don't celebrate Christmas, then just enjoy the following few days. Here's a photo I made during my weekend in Berlin, at the Christmas market in the Sony Center. Santa made out of Lego! :D

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-4396999951920641962007-12-25T00:21:00.000+01:002007-12-25T00:34:50.456+01:00

Been really busy again these weeks, I've been away a weekend to Berlin and all the stuff to do before Christmas. So I'll have to combine 3 weeks into one post again.First, I noticed a cool new Sculpty sculpture at Oyster Bay. Check it out for yourself!Second, I was checking out the region of the RL magazine SLang Life. The cool thing is you can sign up to receive a real magazine by mail,

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-90906814566912985482007-12-12T03:12:00.001+01:002007-12-12T03:57:15.325+01:00

Simone Stern tagged Stella Costello...Stella Costello tagged Cheen Pitney...Cheen Pitney tagged Morris Vig...and Morris tagged me.8 random facts about me and then I'll have to find 8 more people to tag. So let's do this!I often have Comedy Central on at night, only to see two re-runs of South Park episodes which I've seen too much alreadyMy internal clock is broken I think, I can easily be up

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-8012809465010897232007-12-07T15:17:00.000+01:002008-01-04T00:32:00.217+01:00

Age Verification has gone Beta. As excited we were to hear about WindLight Beta, as outraged you may say we are to hear about Age Verification. Do we really, really need it? What's to lose when you have nothing to hide? Why is it really here?From Knowledge Base's Age Verification FAQ:"Why do we need it?While not foolproof, age verification can provide an additional layer of trust for inworld

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-70444168219283308482007-12-03T01:56:00.000+01:002007-12-03T02:31:53.441+01:00

I visited the SL History Fayre in Spini and had a quite entartaining converstaion with a chatbot. Unfortunately the region was highly lagged, but I must say the chat went smoothly. It really was an interesting approach towards camping, but I don't think robots are quite ready to replace real people to chat with though...[16:07] Bryndie Mortlock: Hi Daedalus Young, welcome to the Time Warp

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RL's been crazy last week, I hardly have time for SL anymore :P But it's not that bad, I'm thinking about launching an alt account soon, but you shouldn't notice anything about that. But because I missed the Snap of the Week last week, you get two now! :DFirst, I was invited by Lauk's Nest owner Lukas Mensing for a viewing of the Swedish short film Punkspark. Afterwards there was a Q&A with the

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-30449810406578757042007-11-19T16:13:00.000+01:002007-11-19T16:46:50.378+01:00

Ok, again a day late, but this time I had some minor kernel panic on startup problems after a OS X 10.4.11 update, which took me half a night and half a day to recover from. But I'm back!To quote Torley Linden: "Unless you’ve been hiding under a sculptie rock, you know WindLight is here…"But what pic to make Snap of the Week? I could do my WindLight view of Shivar, but that already got its

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-8850045501389007482007-11-12T20:24:00.000+01:002007-11-12T20:58:50.922+01:00

Ok, a day late, but I was busy playing Simutrans, so :PThis week's Snapshot is of the place where all Logo Contest entries are found. Logos of the Art & Artist Network Group. And yes, I entered too! But I'm not saying which one's mine (unless you really, really, really want to know, then just ask me). Go to the webpage here, follow the SLurl and vote for your fav!

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-53153139309465269482007-11-05T03:20:00.000+01:002007-11-05T03:51:32.721+01:00

Lots of things happening this week. I made a Snap of the Dazzle UI, but as that pic got over 70 views within a week already, I decided to not have it as Snap of the Week.Instead I have a cool pic of Toxic Garden Rezzable. As the name suggests, it's another Rezzable region, also known for their Greenies and Halucinogen regions. High quality!This Snap also goes well with The Photography Studio's

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-15005895729784487792007-10-30T22:17:00.000+01:002007-10-30T22:23:29.809+01:00

A friend of mine showed me a nice video of Second Life in First Life. I don't really know what it's from, but it sure is funny. Even though some sounds are wrong and some people have things selected with their right arm (where in SL, you always select things using your left arm). Anyway, without any further ado, I'll let you enjoy the video titled "second life"!

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-56418045941107404792007-10-29T22:48:00.000+01:002007-10-29T22:52:19.738+01:00

Today, October 29th, is my 28th birthday. Time really flies :P I feel like I'm missing so many years! Anyway, here's to another year.

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It's Sunday already! Time flies...Anyway, this week I was having a good time exploring the latest mainland additions. The newest Corsica Continent is growing. I already Snapped other regions there, like Troll Sweat (pic), but this time, I went to an already inhabited region, rezzed my balloon and flew over to Circus (a promising name!). There I cranked up draw distance to 1500m, turned off cloud

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-237093378552305812007-10-21T15:55:00.000+02:002007-10-21T16:11:40.187+02:00

I didn't do much exploring this week. But of course there was Cylindrian Rutabaga's show this week at Oyster Bay. And I still needed to take Snaps for The Photography Studio's Contest and I attended a performance of The Show Must Go On (which is really recommended!).But instead of those things, I chose to take a Snap of this week's released Release Candidate's Lag Meter and Mini-Map "above" and "

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I am going to try something new here, for this blog anyway. The Snapshot of the Week, it needs no explaining really, a Snap I made during the past week which I really like or think deserves more attention.This week: Origin Rang played at Oyster Bay!

Daedalus Younghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01653497512354489224noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638664245696021354.post-14704180431601333222007-10-01T00:03:00.000+02:002007-10-01T00:18:13.515+02:00

Your guess is as good as mine: what is this icon? Or better, what does it stand for? It's obviously a plus-minus character, but with the circle around it, it could just as well be a -somewhat odd- smiley.I'll tell you a little secret. This design is used on some t-shirts in a certain 1980s Hollywood movie. I didn't even notice it myself until I read about it on a website. It is worn by both good

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I had heard of it. I had seen photos of it. I knew it was coming, but I did not know what I could expect.Burning Life, the SL equivalent of the RL Burning Man Festival. Something with a wooden frame on fire in the desert. The idea I used to have of it was that of men coming their in pickup trucks, drinking beer, talking about women, cars and fire. I now learned it has something to do with art

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It's an often asked question, it even was in the SL knowledge base: How high can you fly?Anybody older than one week will probably know you can get up to a few hundred meters, and even sink back a bit when releasing the PgUp key. Using special objects, such as a Flight Feather, you can get much higher and you'll discover the world you know on the SL ground is only the tip of the iceberg, there

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A few years ago, I wrote a journal entry on my deviantART page, titled Brainfood. Along with it, I created the drawing as seen below. I called it The Philosophical Computer. A computer with a low form of conscience, thinking about why he exists.I enjoyed thinking about modern technology in a philosophical way. I think it makes it easier to understand the questions we may have about ourselves and

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Yes, it is true. I have given in and started a blog. The person that leaves his devART journal untouched for months (just because there's nothing interesting to say) has a blog. Why?(crossposted to my deviantART page)Well, it goes back a long way really. As you may know, I became a Second Life Resident on December 12, 2006. I liked the building and scripting there, so I made my first careful

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A few weeks ago, I quite terribly hurt one of my toes while clipping its nail. It took some time to heal, but due to the nature of its current state, it will take some more time to fully recover. But now it doesn't hurt anymore at least, and I can do anything I want.However a few days ago, when it still hurt a bit, I was going to spend the day with a friend. I had to walk for 20 minutes to the

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This is a list of my favorite places in Second Life, including some extra info on it (like Linden Office Hours). The list will be edited over time, when I find more places to add, delete places that aren't there anymore or add more info. I'll add a link to this post in the sidebar, to keep it accessible at all times.Please excuse the mess the page currently is, it's a work in progress. More

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So for some reason you stumbled upon this blog and you'd like to know what it's about. There are some posts with a chatlog of some sort you see and a rant at Google for not being able to make a user-friendly blog/photo service. What else can you expect?The short answer is this blog will be about everything. Everything I have an opinion about (or not); everything I just want to say (this entry is

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This is really a test post to see if Blogger now finally can be used on the best browser ever made: Opera.Back when I posted the Avatars Against The War posts, I had to do so using Safari on my Mac and the awfully slow Internet Exploder on an awfully slow Windoze machine. And even then, I couldn't upload images, that's why I used deviantART embedded images.Now I recently tried logging in again,

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Last part of the chatlog with Spider Mycron:[16:30] Delia Lake: true, charles. many of the places we name as countries today were put together by outsiders, not by people who live there[16:31] Man Michinaga: Escalation rarely soles matters[16:31] Effulgent Brown: these political lines are what is killing us[16:31] Man Michinaga: What I'm interested in is the state of iraq, the situation so

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And more:[16:16] Man Michinaga: How is life in Amman currently?[16:16] Spider Mycron: it's cold, expensive ... ... and critical situation[16:16] Spider Mycron: pay money always to stay extra month[16:17] Man Michinaga: Paying to stay in Amman?[16:17] Spider Mycron: yes MAn[16:17] Spider Mycron: they don't offer a resident vesa[16:17] Spider Mycron: so we pay tasks[16:17] Man Michinaga: I

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And more:[16:00] Hayduke Ebisu: spider... what will happen when the US pulls its army out[16:00] Effulgent Brown: yeah, i dont think people know what its like there for the americans or iraqis[16:00] Hayduke Ebisu: we are all protesting to get that to happen[16:00] Spider Mycron: well..[16:00] Spider Mycron: if the army work correct that will help[16:00] Spider Mycron: but it work for big

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Here are the 2nd 15 minutes of the chat with Spider Mycron:[15:46] Hayduke Ebisu: many us want to help, we are not sure how... any ideas?[15:46] Kurukulla2 Ivory: all of us![15:46] Effulgent Brown: you are speaking for them[15:46] Charles Gemini: We can finish this by stoping the funding for this war!!! Get your Congressman to sponsor HR 543, get our troops out![15:46] Effulgent Brown: i

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As promised, an edited chatlog of the conversation we had with Spider Mycron in Second Life, during the protests against the war (edited to just get out the stuff that distracts :P ).Here are the first fifteen minutes:[15:31] Spider Mycron: i'm from Iraq - Baghdad[15:31] Effulgent Brown: Welcome :) *huggies*[15:31] Rik Riel: wow, sorry for all the shit we're doing over there[15:31] Spider

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On Monday, January 29, at 2 pm PST, dozens of people gathered on virtual Capitol Hill in Second Life to protest against the war in Iraq.(These images are released under a Creative Commons license)(That's me with the Vietnam sign at the left )At 3.30 pm PST, Spider Mycron joined the protestors. Spider is from Iraq himself, but fled the country and now lives in Jordan, with no visa though. He

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Protests against the war in Iraq not only took place in the real world, but also in the virtual world of Second Life. I did not visit all events, but I have been to the march on Capitol Hill on Monday. I will post a chat transcript with an Iraqi man later.But first there was a party at Oyster Bay on Sunday. I couldn't be there during the whole event, but I did manage to take a good photo of the

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