voyeurism

Memorize - an iPhone application by Lindman Design

my good friend Ludvaig Lindman has just had his first iPhone app accepted at the iTunes Store :-)

Memorize is a contemporary interpretation of the age-old pastime of finding matching pairs of cards.

what i like about it is that you can customise the picture sets. learn more about Memorize from its website :-)

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celebrate Winterfaire with the Lindens :-)

from December 19 to January 5, Linden Lab will be having its annual winter celebrations, centred around Wengen, Voss, Zermatt and Moritz.

there will be a Snowman Building Contest, and the Snowball Fight between the Lindens and Residents.

Raymaker Land Management is proud and happy to make available a choice of two rental properties at Anton, which is the nearest sim from which to visit and tour the Winterfaire celebrations in the afore-mentioned four regions.

Anton Land Parcel One
Anton Land Parcel Two

Technorati Tags: Raymaker Land Management, rent, Second Life

you know you want to...

go ahead.

you know you want to...

now, just in time for Trek XI, and thanks to the supreme talent of Cathy Foil, Raymaker Land Management proudly presents you with the opportunity to live onboard NCC-1701 the Starship Enterprise.

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the kinetic art of Argos Hawks

in the one hundred and sixty-third episode of ventriloquy, i draw your attention to the talent of Argos Hawks, who has crafted a finely-scripted and -sculpted kinetic artwork based on Rolling Ball Machines.

is it Art, or is it Science?

i invite you to decide for yourself in this 2.7 MB download :-)

(this episode was recorded on my iPhone, using iProRecorder, from Bias Inc)

Technorati Tags: landmarks, podcast, Second Life, Singapore

something i never tire of

something i never tire of is spending time onboard the SS Galaxy.

today was no exception. under the expert pilotage of Cruise Manager Alf Nagy, and in the very pleasant company of fellow guest Ethran Gynoid, we spent half an hour flying around the Sagittaria Estate.

enjoy the pictures :-)

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don't miss a great presentation

it's terribly short notice, i know, but if you have even the most passing interest in geography, environmental education, climatology, hydrology, oceanography and / or sustainable living, you could do far, far worse than to go in-world at 11 pm Singapore time (3 pm Greenwich Mean Time, 7 am Second Life Time) to Florida State University's campus and attend Joe Clark's presentation on Environmental Education and the Production of 'Nature' in SL.

i've seen his slides.

if you trust me at all, you wouldn't want to miss this :-) thoroughly compelling stuff.

:-)

[update: Joe's slides on Depictions of 'Nature' in Second Life' are available on slideshare :-) ]

Technorati Tags: education, geography, learning, Second Life

down Johannesburg way (Miriam Makeba 1932-2008)

God be with you, Mama Africa.

requiescat in pace

Photo credit: wikipedia

Yes We Can

God has blessed me with very many moments in my life which have been memorable, and even so very few of them rank up there with what i experienced today, listening transfixed to the live broadcast of the president-elect's victory speech on the BBC World Service, with a frappuccino in hand but barely taking a sip from it.

:-)

The Grand Hotel at Grouse

just in time for the Christmas holidays, i've made available some accommodation in the classic Linden snowland region of Grouse.

i'd like to invite you to consider staying at The Grand Hotel; designed by Maddison Mokeev, its accessibility is certainly hard to beat, being conveniently located along a main road, and an Alpine river system.

all told, there are eight Standard Rooms and six Deluxe Rooms awaiting your occupancy :-)

welcome to The Grand!

[update: as of 10 May 2009, The Grand is closed. i would like to thank all guests :-) ]

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