Do you have any books, DVDs, and CDs that you no longer need? Books for Soldiers is a non-profit group based in North Carolina that coordinates sending them to our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan. Books For Soldiers’ Second Life site, BFS Airfield, is a classic World War II hangar and airfield. You can learn…
Month: September 2009
Gamer
I don’t usually write about films, but the just-released film Gamer, in which much of the action takes place in online games, will be of interest to many Second Life residents. Gamer was released last week. Directed and written by Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, it is a fast-paced action film with the tag line,…
Trademarking Your Avatar
Can you trademark your Second Life avatar? Yes, you can. The legal website law.com reports that entrepreneurs in Second Life have been applying for trademark protection for their avatars and that the US Trademark Office has now issued trademark #3531683 to Alyssa LaRoche for her Second Life avatar, Aimee Weber, for "computer programming services, namely,…
Internal Revenue Service in Second Life
You probably already know that some visionary employers are conducting business and even recruiting in Second Life, but you might be surprised to learn that some government agencies are doing it too, including the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS). The agency saves millions of dollars by recruiting in Second Life, Steven Rothberg writes in…
Burning Life 2009 Volunteer Jobs
Burning Life is built from nothing in a barren desert Just like Nevada‘s famous Burning Man festival, Second Life‘s Burning Life festival is a completely non-commercial, non-paid endeavor, an organized magical city springing to life from a barren desert and then a week later vanishing without a trace. One of the ways you can become…
Lose weight by slimming your avatar?
Does your avatar‘s appearance influence your real life appearance? The August 2009 issue of Journal of Virtual Worlds Research contains an article titled, Does this Avatar Make Me Look Fat? that suggests it might. Using a technique called "In-Avatar Interviewing," the interviewers’ avatars interviewed other avatars in-world. This allows interviewers to completely control not only…
Burning Life 2009 teaser
Back in 2003, a group of software developers in San Francisco were too busy creating a new virtual world called Second Life to attend something else they loved, the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert, so they did something audacious. After getting permission from Burning Man organizers, they created their own Burning Man in…
Michael Jackson’s Memorial Service in Second Life
While Michael Jackson’s friends and family gathered in California for his burial service, his Second Life fans gathered in Second Life to eulogize the performer and to celebrate his life. The Second Life service may have lacked the well known names of mourners such as Reverend Al Sharpton and Elizabeth Taylor, but made up for…
Metrotopia – City of Superheroes
Second Life‘s Metrotopia, City of Superheroes, is not like other cities. How could it be? It’s a city of Superheroes! A city of superheroes should have a Museum of Superheroes, and sure enough, Metrotopia has one, a stately white-columned building. At the Museum of Superheroes, you can view pages from most classic superhero comix. The…