Shortly ago, I blogged about SL anthros "exporting" themselves in the fur. Loriana Fox let me know she keeps a journal including info about how she made her offline avatar. Chatting with her for awhile, she emphasized how she did some of the trademark SL motions like the "waddle walk" and the distinct sequence of gesturing whilst editing an object. Sadly, she has no videos, but the pictures are foxy indeed. There's been more talk about bringing what's in SL to something you can touch beyond a computer screen, known to some as "the real world".

Alexis Enfield aka Thomas Rice has a fun site called Sexy Sprite or Fugly Fright?! (gotta love punctuation like that). Think of it like a MMO HOT or NOT? Featuring avatars from a collection of online games—Second Life is well-represented! He set it up very recently, and it's well on a roll.

I recently attended a Community Roundtable Meeting—my first being on the Community Team! It was very orderly and polite. Tateru Nino sez this is in contrast to previous ones, which I've missed (yeah, me and my wack sleeping hours—this'll make me commit). Highlight capper at the end was checking off another item on my list: seeing an ancient dinosaur bird thing… which I can't spell. But it's all good, 'cuz Psyra Extraordinaire made it, and it's called an "archaeopteryx"!

Jumpoff to a mature site—first of its kind I've seen—Second Life Escort Ratings, which has serious writeups and star-ratings of Resident escorts inworld. If you took away the mention of Second Life and recontextualized the obvious chat snippets and references to mixed realities, maybe you couldn't tell. Maybe. There's the cliche that "there's already too much sex in SL" (like what, too much music? Too many prims?) but I have a very serious angle I'm eyeing here: therapeutic sexual healing for the physically disabled who would be able to find new methods of pleasure in SL that wouldn't be open to them otherwise. Synthetic sexual surrogates. An ideal example of technology that makes us more human.