Tenth Life

Jay Lake (author of Mainspring) has proposed creating a steampunk abecedary:
Let’s play a bloggy game. Per the above, put your suggestions for a steampunk abecedary in comments — next week I’ll distill them out, and we’ll have a poll for the coolest/funniest, with hardback copies of Escapement [ Powell's | Amazon ] as prizes.
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Virtual worlds have the potential to create real and deep connections across many boundaries. Please consider voting to add Arabic language to SL.

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Torley Linden rides to the defense of potential shadows in Linden Research, Inc.’s virtual world: Debunking mindjunk about the cost of [Linden Research's virtual world]’s visual quality
Mindjunk is exactly what it sounds like: mental clutter that sits in your head and makes you more anxious and fearful, taking up space without doing anything effective for [...]

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Second Life Grid Status Reports » Blog Archive » [Resolved] Logins closed - In-World service disruptions
Our central database is sad, which leads to disruptions in several inworld services, such as teleports, search and profiles not working, logins and transactions failing.
Please do not attempt any transactions with non-copy items at this time.
Excuse me? “Our central database [...]

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I don’t have any interest in being a virtual child, and I sometimes find child roleplay in virtual worlds even more annoying than how real children can act. I similarly don’t have any personal interest in BDSM (in either the virtual or the real worlds). And I actively disapprove of Gorean roleplay of slavery. But [...]

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