1. 7th of september: next blogger party (autions included) - Veyron Supercharge will host the next blogger’s party. Get out any ‘kinky’ outfits, to please Misstress Veyron, participate in the auction - bid or be bid on - and just have a blast. Starts at 1pm SLT.
2. Second Life and Ad Farms - Lindens asking input for ‘mainland ad farm’ regulation. What is to big? Who can still get a license (yeah, a license) to do so? Regardless, they promise no more spinning boxes. I do wonder how they are going to enforce this. =)
3. Rezzable.com - Global Music Festival Rockin’ the Grid all September - Take a look at the great line up, get a copy of the free backpack & festival goodies gift (and tell me you like it) and be reminded of the ‘captured proverbs’ SL photography contest.
4. 3D Web - ExitReality is the entire web in 3D | Every web page is a … - ‘ExitReality will be launching in Public Beta very soon with the most technologically advanced 3D platform the internet has ever seen.’ Register for beta out of curiosity? ;)

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1. Madonna top to SL clothing - An example of photo sourcing. Not much to learn from it, but could give you an idea if you have no idea how SL clothes are made. I prefer ‘hand painted’ in combination with textures over photosourced, though.
2. Plurk userscripts for Greasemonkey and GreaseKit at Kathar.in - Plurk userscripts by Kathar.in part I: Collapsible Dashboard and Reply Blocker
3. Two more Plurk userscripts at Kathar.in - Plurk scripts by Katharine part II. ‘Be productive’ and ‘Force Qualifier Language’.
4. OpenClip - Open Source iPhone Copy & Paste - Upcoming: copy paste for the iPhone? (Hat tip to zeroX)
5. RA DIOHEA_D / HOU SE OF_C ARDS - Google Code - Radiohead just released a new video for its song “House of Cards” from the album “In Rainbows” and put part of the (digital, duh) data from the video online to use/experiment with. Not the slightest clue what to do with it though, maybe others do? =)
6. Havok - Titles that use the Havok Engine - Apparently Havok is not very proud of being part of Second Life. We’re not listed.

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1. Dusan Writer’s Metaverse - A possible speech - Dusan Writer’s layout for Mark Linden’s speech at SLCC08. Have a chuckle, cry, rejoice, … whatever it makes you feel like, but there is a high probably M. Linden will use this! ;)
2. Linden Lab staff gagged unable to post to official blog - Silence on the official Linden Lab blog. How come? No more Torley. No more personal stuff. No more important updates about releases? No more info? At all?!
3. Lauren Weyland, Live in RL & SL (great comedy) - Saturday, at 3pm SL time in the sim of IVY FALLS at the theater, Lauren Weyland will be doing a show that will also be broadcast into a theatre within first life in Amsterdam. From what I understand this will also be interactive. If plan to attend, so say ‘hi!’ when you see me. (And do give Lauren a great applause!)
4. Sinewave promo video - Impressive! Who says we should do stupid, dumb not real life like animations? Hat tip to Codie for posting this one on Plurk.
5. Rezzable CEO RightasRain Rimbaud on Tonight Live with Paisley Beebe SLCN - The title probably says it all. Jonathan Himoff on voice (and with avie) answering questions about Rezzable’s past & future plans, greenies & black swan entrance fees, etc. Don’t ask me all the time, go and watch this vid! Extra bonus is NPIRL’s bettina tizzy.

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1. Ping.fm / Login - Hmm. Handy. Updates Facebook, Twitter, Plurk, Rejaw, …. at the same time. Might even get myself a twitter account now, as it’s no extra work. Hoorah!
2. Grid Life - Second Life Viewer Cheatsheet - Ok, old news, but forgot to bookmark/delicious it. New and upcoming blog by ‘Kippie Friedkin’, and instantly going very strong. Oh, and kippie is dutch dialect for a) a little chicken or b) a hot chick.
3. virtualjobcandy.com - Real Live jobs concerning Virtual Worlds. Did not check the supply, might be interesting to some?
4. Rezzable.com - Accusations Running Wild - Yes, we know. Yes, that lady at ’stop content theft’ should check her sources better. Yes, we replied. Yes, in real life one would call this slander. *sighs*

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1. Virtual Worlds Timeline on Dipity - Timeline gathering the ‘milestones’ for virtual worlds. Birth (and end?) date of different virtual worlds, important corporate decisions, open source initiatives, … . Feel free to contribute, it appears.
2. Reuters/Second Life - Linden Lab’s cloak and dagger job ad - I wonder, can you even get ‘The candidate must either have government security clearance or the ability to be cleared for government contracts/engagement ‘ when you confess having a second life? ;)
3. Warcraft Players are Living in a Communist State - This is of the most-prodigious mysteries of the gamer soul; They let us cast off our mundane existence and become a colorful, empowered hero. And what do we do with this second life? We behave like obedient workers in a Soviet collective outside Stalingrad, circa 1971. Comrade, your job is to collect potatoes. For seven years. We pay $20 a month for this privilege. Read up unto the last sentence! Really! :p
4. What makes you ‘you’? - An interesting experiment about what defines an avatar. Is just exchanging shapes enough? And skins? And hair? And when do you become the ‘other’. Kewl!

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1. Yolto.com: Metaforum ‘Play-Per-Post’ program announcement - Yolto is introducing a ‘play (pay?) per post’ program. It’s still kinda confusing to me, lot’s of steps to go through, amongst others registering with their service. Curious what comes from it. Did any of the SL bloggers try this already?
2. Free LSL Particles System script generator. - A webpage that lets you choose tons of options for LSL particle scripts and then gets you the code to copy paste & compile inworld. For the scripting newbs amongst us. (or the lazy? ;))
3. Dusan Writer’s Metaverse - Electric Sheep’s Virtual World: One of the Flock - Webflock, the Electronic Sheep’s mini-virtual world / 3d chatroom. I suppose this means they permanently gave up on Second Life? Or just exploring alternatives?
4. Dusan Writer’s Metaverse - Google’s Lively: Content Creation Tools Beta - As all things Google, in beta. ;) (but closed beta this time) Interesting overview, I’m curious what the end results will be.
5. Not Possible IRL: White Noise travels from Second Life to Google’s Lively and gets gray - First Second Life artist migrated to Lively? ;)

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1. Greenies Doormat Contest - Voting at Rezzable - Can’t choose which giant doormat to use at Greenies Lawn. Do you want to help us choose? ;)
2. Go on on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - Moving Sculpture by Glyph Graves. Glyph Graves is currently showing an exhibition of sculpture at Russian Archipelago. Machinima by Ravenelle.
3. Supercharged by Veyron - Veyron’s Piccie Present for Vint - Very fun photo-present from Miss Veyron. =D
4. CodeBastardRedgrave.Com » Rouge sim opening 05/07/2008: You are invited - Miss Codie opens the Rouge sim. Definitely worth visit! ;)
5. Orange Island - Blog Archive - Orange Island - Koinup Photo Contest: the winners - Congratulations to the winners: Miss Bella March, Raul Crimson, Tur and Monroe Snook. All darned deserved wins! ;)

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1. Second Effects: How Cool Is Your Avatar’s Name? - ArminasX thinks my avie name is kewl. Yeey! I must admit, I’m rather happy with it. =d
2. ShareCG - kimber89’s portfolio - Texture heaven! That I did not discover this earlier! Check out Kimber89’s cute vector insects! =)
3. Flickr: Linden Lab’s Photostream - Linden Lab now has a stream with ‘official’ stock photographs. ‘Email licensing@lindenlab.com for information about obtaining a commerical use copyright license.’

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1. Beware the virtual roaches! They can be real. - Rezzable - Really flabbergasted me. How virtual roaches can trigger a real life phobia. Guess we should redefine ‘real’ and ‘virtual’. Maybe make that ‘real life real’ and ‘virtual life real’? ;)
2. Picnik - edit photos the easy way, online in your browser - Fun & fast online photo editing tool. Works on snapshots too! ;)
3. Emvee Cuba Storyboard Contest - Koinup - ‘The contest is restricted to Second Life residents, the focal medium being still-frame storyboards; artistic media other than storyboard will not be accepted.’ I want a 3D Navigator Mouse! My wacom one is near death by exhaustion.

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1. Virtual Jungle: Touring the Open Source Grids - Tour of the Open Sims. Interesting read & summary. (found thanks to Gwyneth)
2. An Engine Fit For My Proceeding - An Illustration of the Cosmology of the Grid - ‘I am always of a bent to properly Explain the Technical Nature of how these things operate, and for that purpose I have prepared a small diagram of the Cosmology of the Grid and Second Life, which I hope will prove useful.’ GOTTA SEE THIS! =d
3. Announcing: Shoot Veyron - Supercharged by Veyron - Veyron Supercharge organises a virtual photography contest about her favourite subject: Veyron Supercharge. The prizes are: 1st prize, L$8k and you can take a picture of Veyron kissing you. ;) 2nd prize, L$3k and you can take a picture of V. kissing yo

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