(Don't worry, I'm not drunk blogging.)
At work today, Jeska Linden pointed me to watermelon snow, which prolly must ring through as my fave natural phenomenon. Perhaps rolling around in it will be the culmination of a life's work: as a youth, I remember heading up to the ski slopes with a pink inkpad and using the rubber stamp on snowmen. It… colored them quite a bit.
Sometimes when I can't get inworld at work, I watch Second Life through the eyes of Destroy Television. Not only can you walk her around, you can chat remotely as a "voice from beyond" — proving that interaction has gotta go both ways. Fab work from TESC's elegant Sheep Labs. What Jeff Linden mentioned in an earlier email makes me think this is like the bona fide successor the Video Linden experiment, done better by Resis. Of course, not just any Resis… HUR!
What's also amazing about Destroy TV is, snapshots are regularly sent to Flickr, making for thousands of thousands of photographs of Little Miss DTV's life. It almost makes you think this has a Truman Showesque lilt to it *cue Philip Glass string ostinato*, or perhaps if you suck all those screengrabs down and play them at blazin' speed, you've have one heck of a timelapse machinima, which I'd enjoy. I wonder if the bandwidth usage or otherwise unique activity is causing the Flickr folks to take notice — maybe this, in its own way, will be the lynchpin that busts NIPSA's tired balls.
The "secondlife" tag is rising on YouTube, with 424 videos at latest. I'll be uploading more, which is why I have a widget in my right sidebar.
One reason why I don't have a "reading list" widget is because of all the books I do want to read, but prolly won't for a very, very long time. One of those is Malcolm Gladwell's Blink. He also wrote The Tipping Point, which I also didn't read; I like his hair a lot. I'm intrigued by Blink for the reason that it deals with "the ability to think without thinking", which ties into my own experiences with *drum roll please* rippleshock: the times in my life I feel the air is like liquid and emotion overcomes me, aiding me in making decisions. Before this, I likened it to a sort of intuition, but my rippleshock is actually founded upon a bedrock of previous, empirical events.
In the "keeping a secret is stupid" category, we have the Second Life Download Directory, which only has four apps at present, all created by inhabitants of Second Life, but I do hope it'll grow. Note that Backhoe by Zarf Vantongerloo in there is Mac-only, but allows for much easier sculping of RAW terrain files; I've come across a few frustrated with doing it the complicated way in Photoshop. What should also be in there is Johan Durant's SL Clothes Previewer, rough edges abound but it may save you some time lining up the seams! If you've made a kewl app which makes Second Life better, submit it here. It doesn't have to be free, but open source is all the calm rage these days. 
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hey, i resemble that remark…..actually backhoe is pretty cool, had no idea it was even there