I have rezzed in a time of sorrows
Deprecated soul at zero
Errands in quest for bliss
Toxic shock by poisoned kisses

So sick and tired of getting leeched
Harassed by the ill intent
Increasing the daily burden
Until my rage exploded indeed

I just wanted to go away
Just wanted to find myself again
And then I want to find my way
Until I can loose myself again

Lost in the metaverse…

And from vectors I am born again
Clash of cultures so deep it burns
Rebaked from another world
May it all be in vain

Submerged sorrows of sweetness
Clock timer beats binary
Social standards may subgress
Humankind redefined, supersized identity

The more I dig, the more I plunge
Losing my identity on itself
With the rage of despair I grudge
Into remaining myself

Fucking lost in the metaverse…

I never thought it would make me blind
Mesmerized with all the beauty
To meet so many of the same kind
Makes me want to drift to eternity

It is the passion in my eyes
That redefines my reality
Before what’s left of my time flies
I must achieve my destiny

Spray that ugly world with a speck of red dust
Trying to feel human again
Until my other reality fades into loss
I shall rise alive in love again

Faded away in the metaverse…

Good news, SL5B registrations are re-opened until the end of May, so on the 31st. If you are an artist, RL or SL photography, or a building artist, hurry up and register now!

http://slbirthday.info/signup

The inworld weekly event is an official event hosted by Second Life Wikia administrator CodeBastard Redgrave, in which Second Life Wikia improvements and current matters are discussed. It is an open event, which anyone could attend.

On 25/05/08 at 9:00AM SLT I will host the first SL History Wikia meetup at Code Red Lounge in Strata.

SLURL Code Red Lounge

Please come and chat with us!

There are only 5 days left to sign up. May 25th is your Last chance to Register.

Second Life will be celebrating its 5th birthday (SL5B) this year. The theme will be “cultures”. The event will be June 23rd - June 30th.

The team will be accepting exhibit applications until May 25th. You can expect to see the regions open for building on or shortly after June 1. The deadline for completing your builds is June 20. Gates open on June 23 and the event runs until June 30th.

Shoshana Epsilon is the art director this year, with help from CodeBastard Redgrave and Stephen Venkman. We are encouraging people to submit their art! 2D and 3D art will be accepted, and the source can be SL or RL. No pornography, no mega prims, all decisions are final.

There will 512 plots handed out with a max of 100 prims each lot. 3D sculptors need to ask for prims needed and we will see

This is a resident-run event. No selling stuff, please. To sign up, go to this page:

http://slbirthday.info/signup
If you are interested in the entire set of “cultures”, here they are:

Academia

In world educators
RL educators
Anthropomorphism

Furries
Neko
Tinies
Art

First Life artists
Second Life artists
Second Life sculptors
Fantasy

Elves
Fairies
General Fantasy
Geographic

Africa
Americas
Asia
Austrailasia
Europe
Gothic

General Gothic
Vampirism
Miscelaneous

Charity
Fashion
Machinima
Religion
Second Childhood
Volunteerism
Music

Club Scene
DJs
General Music
Live Performance
Science Fiction

Cyberpunk
Fandom
General SF
Steam punk
Sexuality

BDSM
General Sexuality
Gorean
Teledildonics

(NOTE: The list is constantly upgraded, please consider this a sample, and feel free to suggest new themes)

Yes. Prepare for a long rant. I’m getting really sick with Twitter being screwed up and not improving at upgrades and time goes. Before I go berserk and close my totally useless account, let me state a few things about how BAD Twitter has became in the last weeks. You think SL is hopelessly borked? Well just let me do a little list of Twitter irks and twitches to give you an idea of what borked really means.

I should state tho all of these problems appeared long ago, they are since about 2 weeks absolutely recurring and out of control.

1. Page cannot load, application errors, “Something is technically wrong”, Internal errors 500, blank page, incomplete page load; Yes, you know the kind. You know it because it fucking happens day in, day out. It’s not all to have load balanced web servers, fellas. It’s even better when you develop on application technologies that are PROVEN and TESTED to scale better. I will pass on what technologies Twitter is built on to avoid a flamewar, but let’s say I’m not very impressed.
2. Extremely slow page loading; Frustrating. Very much so. Why? First because you loose messages. And you twitterers knows that nothing can screw a first inspiration like having to write the same inspired tweet again. Secondly, because its just unacceptable from a user point of view. I know those engineers thinks they are pretty smart, but let them learn about the usage curve. If your damn service stops being responsive all the time, people will click and click and click out of sheer frustration, further loading your application servers, until it goes out for hours. Twitter, scale or die!
3. Timeline borkage, people not seeing followed people tweets, scrambled order of the messages; It goes on. I’m not sure how Twitter cache technology works, but it is total fail. Since replies are mostly screwed up, again, people starts using Tweetscan or similar things, furthermore increasing the pressure on those poor database servers. Again, good way for this database to jump in the next tarpit to stop suffering.
4. Failed SMS delivery, truncated SMS, and truncated parts that never gets through; Classic. What makes Twitter anything like useful is the ability to forward DMs or some people’s replies to your SMS phone, making it a mobile broadcast platform. If you ask me, without that feature, Twitter is pretty useless. Or greatly diminished and making it feel like any other micro blogging platform like Jaiku or Pownce. Well, Twitter is really good at failing doing this properly. Very often, SMS don’t get through at all. But most frustrating is getting part 2 of 2 of a message saying: “fuck” and not knowing if the sender meant “I need to fuck” or “You little fuck”. Yeah extreme but classic example. I can’t tell you how frustrating that is, being isolated on the road, and getting half baked messages because Twitter is not behaving again.
5. Failed email follow notifications; This is relatively recent, but very very annoying. Since a few weeks, I don’t receive half of the new follower notifications. Not only this is very annoying, this is dangerous. You cannot know if someone stalks you. How can someone control his list of followers if you don’t even get a notification? And should I mention how ridiculously unmanageable the Twitter follower list is when you have over 20 followers? If you cannot manage the users on your social network, well it’s no longer a social networking platform. It is just a platter of delicious fail, and you must eat it.
6. Twitter API failures; frequent and redundant. I don’t use any API enabled applications, thanks gawd. Most of my friends to, through Twitbin, Twhirl, and so on. Sometimes the API stops being responsive for hours. Again, people starts hammering Twitter’s web interface craving for their replies.

This state of borkage is getting worse and worse every week. Yeah, worse than SL is borked lately. That says a lot. Twitter does not have 1/100th of the complexity SecondLife has. So there’s no comparing to be done.

Seriously, Twitter, get your game together. Twitter is surely one of the coolest web applications I have ever used. When it works. I would be VERY sad seeing it fail as a socialnet platform, since I am probably one of your biggest fangirl and certainly an evangelist, having brought dozens of my friends to try and get hooked to the platform too.

Twitter is simple. Fix it, and now. You guys are surely cool, but you have venture capital and investors. Hire someone that knows about service scalability. Outsource it for all I fucking care about. But if you don’t do it, and soon enough, you will lose momentum and get eaten by people that actually knows what they are dealing with. Now Twitter, it is time to decide if, with your surge of popularity, will emerge into a real mature platform, or if you will stay at the stage of startup infancy.

Because I’m so sick of it, as much as I’m addicted to it, as much as I love and care for the marvelous people that follows me and I follow back, if that keeps up, I will stop loosing my time and I will drop Twitter like a rock.

Yeah I really thought Chief D. Rockin would catch me, handcuff me and put me on a public display of humiliation for all my fashion crimes. But no, seems she thinks I’m an exemplary citizen for not committing the ghetto booty crime. Being used as an example of good taste on the SLFP is oh my flattering. Thank you Chief D. Rockin for not handcuffing me. Oh, wait. That would have actually been real fun! Guess I should start hanging out with giant prim boobs not assorted to my skin and wearing a ton of visible from space blang if I want her to catch me and make me feel it good. Will work on that.

While then, read The do and don’t of booty on SecondLife Fashion Police blog.

My lovely and generous friend Shoshana Epsilon started a project for talented new artists to have an opportunity to show their work in an inworld gallery. I’m lazy, so this is a copypasta of her post, available here.

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Second Life is full of opportunities if you have money, and many fewer opportunities if you don’t. I would like to offer an opportunity for those who have talent.

Contact Shoshana Epsilon in-world and show her your stuff!
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Steiger/122/134/119 

Unfortunately due to a schedule conflict (RL and TZ are bitches!) I cannot attend to the Koinup Machinima Contest ceremony at Orange Island. But the winners are already announced on Koinup. Myself and Tao Takashi each chose a winner and the community chose their own favourite, which was also my first choice.

Here are the top winners:

• The Little Newbie by Alienhearts (community winning machinima)
• “The Cats Will Play” Grindhouse Tribute by Bkiddo
• ChouChou by ChouChou

They will receive a cash prize from Koinup, and a license for MachinimaCam HUD Pro as soon as I can go inworld to deliver it.

There was a very high amount of outstanding work presented for this contest, the choice was very hard. I encourage all participants to continue working on doing machinima, many of you are extremely talented and are showing some real skills for the art.

Again, congratulations to the winners, and thank you all for your very active participation to this contest. Thanks to Tao Takashi for co-judging this contest, and thanks to Pierluigi of Koinup for giving me this opportunity to see all those marvelous pieces of work.

This is a really interesting concept. Simple, clean, efficient way to read all your favorite news in a single mouseover. Alltop aggregates the last 5 entries of all interesting blogs/news outlets for a single subject. In the case that is of interest to me it’s called http://virtual.alltop.com.

A few things makes it different. It comes with all interesting feeds, mostly selected by AllTop.Com staff themselves. Then you can remove the feeds that are no interest to you. With what remains, a simple mouseover lets you overview the news quite nicely. Click it and you get the news directly from the blogger’s mouth.
Thanks to Guy Kawasaki, chief evangelist of AllTop.Com, and avid Twiteroo, my feed is now on this website. It now replaced my default page on my SL dedicated machine.