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From: Second Life Blog Super cool new WindLight First Look Viewer! Quote from the site - So. I think you’re really gonna like this one. I mean a lot. You know all that jira reporting we’ve asked you to do? You know all those votes you’ve been giving? Well, our cycles of development, QA, and public tracking have synced up, and you’ll find this latest list of bugs squished extra tasty. Have a look!

From: Laughing Squid Santarchy In Second Life, The First Virtual Santacon Quote from the site - Can’t make it to one of the regional Santacon’s this year? Well come join Santarchy in Second Life, which being hosted by The Cacophony Society at 4pm SLT this Sunday, December 9th at Pier 109/139/23 in Second Life. Here’s a Santa in Second Life: A Crash Course to help you figure out what to do and where to go.

From: Nautilus Climate change talks at Second Life Quote from the site - Nature is holding a series of events on Second Life to coincide with the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Bali, from 3 to 14 December. Second Nature is hosting talks by a range of speakers including Dr Simon Buckle, Director of Climate Change Policy at the Grantham Institute for Climate Change ; Dr Tara LaForce, Imperial College on her research on carbon capture and storage; Professor Euan Nisbet of Royal Holloway College London; and George Monbiot, Guardian columnist and author of the book Heat: How to stop the planet burning.

From: Massively Cinemassively: Making of Richard Hawley’s Second Life Quote from the site - It’s not every day that a musician takes you behind the scenes on how he performed. However, that’s exactly what the team behind Richard Hawley’s appearance in Second Life did. Hawley was there as a cheeky response to a ban on smoking in the UK, dubbing it the “first” virtual gig for “puffers.”

From: Second Life Herald What Scares Me In SL? Quote from the site - I took a long walk around SL late one Friday night. I went alone and I went to the scariest places I could find.

So I’ll tell you what scares me in SL. It’s You.

From: AFP Estonia launches embassy in virtual world Second Life Quote from the site - Tech-savvy Estonia Tuesday launched an embassy in the Internet fantasy world Second Life, with features ranging from highbrow exhibition halls to a canine news anchor, the foreign ministry said.

From: Peace, Earth & Justice News Don’t Iraq Iran Second Life Protest Quote from the site - Recently I was on Second Life which is an online virtual reality. While I was there there was a virtual demonstration going on called Don’t Iraq Iran so I decided to report on the event which I found amazing.

From: Batemans Bay Living life online Quote from the site - A BROULEE artist has become the first Australian to set up an online gallery through the Linden Company’s program Second Life.

From: Massively AOL AWOL from SL Quote from the site - AOL Pointe, AOL’s installation in Second Life that was intended to be an ongoing experiment to define, measure and test methods of avatar engagement is, today, missing. Recently the island was closed to the public, and now it appears to have gone entirely.

From: Second Life Blog Looking For a Few Good Residents Quote from the site - We’re looking for local Residents new, old, and everywhere in between to help us evaluate some possible changes, tweaks, and/or new features to Second Life and the Support portal. The tests we’re thinking of doing are some small exercises that require both a tester and an observer to be physically present, so you must be near San Francisco.

From: The Click Heard Round the World Workshop on “Avatar Paste” on December 8 in Second Life Quote from the site - As part of a program on “Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance” taking place from December 7-8 at the University of London, there will be a workshop on “Avatar Paste and Code Soup in First and Second Life.”

From: Tech Learning Educational Uses of Second Life Quote from the site - I talked about Second Life in my blog in October and I am excited about the potential of using Second Life to provide an online 3-D virtual reality world in education and training. Today, more and more colleges, universities, and corporations are building their virtual campuses and training facilities in Second Life.

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From: Massively NBC covers Second Life with strange results Quote from the site - There’s a video up on NBC’s site about Second Life, but not only isn’t it saying anything new, there are a couple of weird bits about it.

From: News.com Blog Tech and fashion just off the runway Quote from the site - Is a fashion and tech industry partnership the equivalent of mixing plaids with stripes, or is this a case of black and white being the perfect match?

After all, there are not many tech events where you need an Italian translator on hand.

From: newconsumer.com OneClimate.net’s virtual Bali on Second Life Quote from the site - If you feel like you have your tuppence worth to add to the UN’s Climate Change Conference, why not get your virtual self to Bali?

From: eMediaWire Octogenarian Author Speculates on Virtual Worlds, Then Utilizes Second Life for Book Launch Quote from the site - A new book by Dr. Theodore Rockwell, The Virtual Librarian, forecast the rise of virtual worlds when it was drafted as a manuscript over 10 years ago. Now, the author is relying upon Second Life - a popular online virtual world - for the book’s promotion.

From: Second Life Blog The Fourth Annual Second Life Winter Festival Quote from the site - It’s time for the Second Life Winter Holiday Celebration! It kicks off the evening of Friday, December 14, and will close the evening of Friday, January 8. This year, we’re planning some of our traditional events, as well as brewing up a couple of new surprises.

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