just ignore and let this one die

Brenda I just bumped into Wallace and he asked me to pass a message along to Boomer http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/21/news/companies/mattel_puppy_tweets/

They totally don't care about their Scrabble game!!

It's probably fake... I'm pretty sure neither of them can read.

They totally don't care about their Scrabble game!!

(hi there all.. just wanted to be sure i got at least one more post in this thread before it hits 100,000 )

Here, perhaps this will help get the thread back on track.

I want to know who the 3rd player is. *grins*

I want to know who the 3rd player is. *grins*

*waves to Cybin*

aww, and here I was thinking it was Hef's 3rd girlfriend.

Maybe . . . maybe not.

The British National Party (BNP) is active in SL, has a group, and (at least last time I checked) a headquarters in world. It is an offshoot of the old fascist National Front: until last year, when the courts ruled it discriminatory, membership was restricted to Caucasians. They propose the repatriation of all non Caucasians from Britain. LL is, at some level, aware of their existence, because they keep getting ARed for the overtly racist signs that they put up.

I'm afraid that I don't have a problem with a company -- LL, or whomever -- showing some ethical backbone. Would you critique an investment company that offered only "ethical" investments? Would you, before the end of Apartheid, have done business with a company that did business with South Africa? I make these kinds of decisions every day: I don't buy from companies that employ third-world sweatshops, or that don't engage in fair trade practices. And I do, in what ways I can, register my protest against those who do. That's all I am doing here.

It's easy to forget that Second Life is not a democracy: it's a privately-owned fiefdom. I am anticensorship, for the greatest part, but "free speech" is only half of the equation: you also need responsive mechanisms for governance that counterbalance the lunatic fringe, the unethical, the racist, and so forth that "free speech" allows voice to. We don't have those in SL: we have a sort of benevolent dictatorship that allows anyone to say pretty much whatever they want so long as the corporation doesn't find it offensive, without providing the democratic tools to respond.

If SL were an actual democratic state, I would trust that the mechanisms of democracy would keep the ethical ship on an even keel. Instead, we have a private corporation -- no different in that respect from Dow Chemical itself -- which makes top-down decisions about what IT views as ethically permissible. Given that I don't have a "vote" here to record my opposition, I take the same approach to LL that I take to any otherwise unresponsive corporation: I protest.

(Sorry, I hope that doesn't sound grumpy. I don't want it to sound grumpy. . . .)

aww, and here I was thinking it was Hef's 3rd girlfriend.

Oh God , what an awful show that was. Between Hef's senility and their vapidity it made Bridezillas seem like a Francois Truffaut film.

Mo wins!

Mo wins!

I just had a bit of a "DUH" moment.

I've been using a freeware program called MWSnap, for quite a while. I use it a lot for capturing quick images of the screen here at work. For some reason it never occurred to me to use it with SL.

It has options for capturing the full desktop, a window, or any user defined rectangle.

Traditional SL Snapshot


MWSnap Image


As you can see in the two images the quality is about the same. It allows you to save as BMP, JPG, TIF, PNG, or GIF. One downside is that you have to work around GUI items like on screen chat or HUD's.

The user define rectangle option is great for cropping or close ups.

MWSnap Closeup


If anyone is interested in giving it a try a google search for "MWSnap" will give you several options for downloading it.

I don't know, Tom Hanks didn't seem to mind.



BTW, if you look closely at her hand, you can see exactly what Madison thinks of your anti-mermaid bigotry.

Um, Josh . . . do you mind if I do more or less this? Except, without the trickery: I'll make sure it is noted where the Bhopal slurl goes.

Union Carbide was truly reprehensible, and Dow, as the new owner, has to take some responsibility for the ongoing environmental cleanup, if not for the compensation for the deaths of as many as 35,000 people.

They totally don't care about their Scrabble game!!

(hi there all.. just wanted to be sure i got at least one more post in this thread before it hits 100,000 )

Hey, I'm up for it!!

I don't know that I am going to be Amanda Linden's favourite person . . . I may have to forgo collecting her Linden Bear . . .

https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/workinginworld/blog/2010/01/21/prototyping-environment-in-sl-for-dow-chemical-three-questions-with-robert-emory-from-scott-miller-group

Oh, and you'll love my smooooooth segue . . .

I've not seen "Bridezillas", but sometimes I just had to watch "The Girls Next Door"...sort of like watching a horror movie...you know it's going to be bad...but you just.can't.look.away.

I decided to play around with making animated gifs again and went back for a stroll in the forest. I took multiple images in a not so static pose while changing the time of day slightly using the environment editor. I wanted to show the interesting transitions in light that you see there. There are 18 frames in this gif and I'm sure there are ways to make the transitions smoother but I haven't figured that out yet nor am I that great with PS. It's still fun to play with, although I'd really like to improve my PS skills as it seems to take me forever to do even the simplest of things.