Archive for May, 2007

Girls Aloud touring again

girls aloud 1
spandex?

Girls Aloud are out on their 3rd tour at the moment, looking like total sexpots judging by these photos coming in. There was gossip of them simulating sex and being unacceptible for kids in the tabloids last week.

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Google and Gold sellers

Black temple

I’ve been trying to block gold seller ads on this site since it went online and its becoming a real pain, every day I add new sites to google’s “competitve ad” feature but this list is limited in size so it can never cope with the amount of sites selling gold.

I managed to find a nice list of sites on a wow wiki site and I’ve added my list to it. This text document is here:

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Todays lunch

Sandwich

Finding myself a little bit hungry today I decided to pig-out at lunch time with this beauty.

Its a White knot roll covered with poppy seeds and stuffed with Roma ham, cheese, leaves and garlic & red pepper chutney. Those half moons are cheese and chive profiteroles.

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WindLight rendering comes to SL

WindLight atmospheric rendering
Linden nerds are currently peeing their pants over this new toy that will be implemented into SL. In their own words;

What is WindLight? How did this happen?

WindLight “simulates the ways that sunlight is scattered by the atmosphere under different climatic conditions, such as fog or haze”. Long story short: killer skies and kickass environments.

sky

Linden Lab has teamed up with and acquired Windward Mark, who’s responsible for developing this visual excellency. We warmly welcome our new brethren!

Initial thoughts at this technology; it seems to add a layer of fakeness to SL.
While this may sound like an odd thing to say it should be noted that the skys are photorealistic, and because of this they appear to look a little out of place in the “cartoony” universe.

Lets wait to see it in action.

Anshe Chung to Link Virtual Economies

ACS logo This could be huge. Anshe Chung studios has made a press release detailing their plans to unite the virtual economies of SL/EU/IMVU. Anshe Chung Studios is preparing to launch a virtual financial market, financial products and a set of services that are going to, for the first time, allow direct capital flow and investment across virtual world boundaries. This step will be the first of many in the creation of an open, cross platform Metaverse economy that transcends individual virtual worlds.

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