Entries from November 2007 ↓

Finally after a few weeks Commerical development has started in Milehouse. The Dancing Beach Club has been opened and has a small mall attached , 3 out of the 12 or so spots in the Mall have been filled with vendors

The club itself is currently empty except for 3 campers

As it’s a Sunday, today’s National LolCatz Image takes a break from world politics and explores the world of entertainment.
Here is a movie still from the great silent comedy “The Kitten” .

For a few months I’ve been a regular contributor to the forums on the wonderful SL community site SLUniverse. I’d recommned it to anyone looking for a good active 3rd party SL forum.
My own contributions have tended to be of little substance and more humour related . In particular I’ve found I have a passion for Photoshopping famous photographs with LolCatz heads , A strange talent but it keeps me off the streets, I’ve recently set up the National LolCatz Archives, a photographic archive of LolCatz History. The full archive is now hosted here . Today’s addition to the archive was Munich 1938.

Both SLUniverse and the Archive have been added to the sidebar here

All original unsold land has changed ownership from Kirby McMahon to Dusty Outlander. The land is all back on sale at the same inland price of L$22000 per 2048sqm (14 plots in total) so it sounds more like an administrative move rather than a totally new ownership. – The change occurred at about 00:20 , today November 8th.

Researchers at University College London in the UK have designed a SL Bot which they use to research peoples virtual personal space. Indications are that avatars show similar behaviour to RL research, moving away from the bot when pressed to closely , with women being less sensitive. It doesn’t mention known cultural differences in personal space but I’d assume those would apply as well .

Details are published by New Scientist and you can read more here