http://tentacolor.com Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:57:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Meriken Co. has a nicely sculpted and textured freebie octopus to wear on your head! It's even wearing a festive holly cluster. Such a stylish cephalopod! You can get it at Meriken Co. in SL. Thanks to Peter Stindberg for telling me about it! http://tentacolor.com/2009/12/23/xmas-octopus-freebie-from-meriken-co/ It's that time of year again: time to plug my products remind you how easy it is to send your holiday cards and invitations with the Deliverator! Instead of going through the chore of opening your friend's profiles and dragging the item onto them, one by one, until you get RDNDI ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/12/19/deliverator-holiday-greetings/ Linden Lab announced yesterday that they'll be starting Linden Homes a new land program to entice users into upgrading by providing premium users with a free 512 sq.m. mainland plot, including an unfurnished house. There will be some restrictions on the parcel, though: "the house cannot be removed and the ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/12/05/its-not-for-you/ Tomorrow, October 15 from 3-4 PM SLT, we'll be having a discussion at UXIG about new features and improvements to the SL viewer that would improve Second Life (and OpenSim) as a platform for creating machinima. We'd especially love to hear from machinimists who are currently working with Second Life: What are ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/10/15/machinima-discussion/ O HAI THERE! This is my first experiment in animating SVG with JavaScript! The image was created in Inkscape, then I edited the XML to add JavaScript code to adjust the arm's rotation every 35 milliseconds. This is my second JavaScript program ever! It should work correctly on most modern browsers. If ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/10/11/chibi-animation-test/ The SL fashion world has spawned a bizarre and mysterious type of device known as the anti-inspect shield. The primary purpose of these devices is to deter other people from checking the names and creators of attachments you are wearing, so that they can't go and buy the same things ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/09/17/bypass-an-anti-inspect-shield-in-3-easy-steps/ I've been making some positive life changes lately. You know, the usual stuff: eliminating stress, exercising more, focusing on the things in life that are important to me, ... and transforming into a mermaid!? As you can see, I'm shedding my human-ness in SL, and embracing my aquatic side. There's still ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/08/31/a-blenderaculous-transformation/ I've counted Dusan Writer as a friend (or at least a friendly acquaintance) ever since I met him in the course of his UI design contest a year ago. He's an interesting personality, and generally an intelligent fellow and a thoughtful writer. So, it's with some disappointment that I read Dusan's ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/05/21/permissions-and-choices/ Deliverator users, rejoice! I've upgraded the server to be better than ever: Deliverator can now deliver to practically anyone in SL! If you've had trouble delivering to certain people, those troubles are a thing of the past! The only people Deliverator might not be able to deliver to are super-newbies, less ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/05/10/deliverator-update/ Venerable Second Life journalist and blogger Tateru Nino is running an opinion poll to try to find out how the SL populace really feels about Linden Lab's upcoming Adult Content policies. She's trying to get an accurate sampling of opinions, which means lots of people need to vote, so she's asking ... http://tentacolor.com/2009/05/05/tateru-ninos-adult-content-poll/