I'm using Bloglines again—while Sage's a simple and pleasant newsreader, it also feels slow to me. Bloglines lets me view multiple feeds on a single page, and it feels snappier than it ever did in 2004. I pretty much got wound up in too many SL-related feeds like tumbleweed, so nowadays I simplify on World of SL.

Too many social software sites, there's a lot of "nice-sounding" stuff I'll never regularly use. StyleFeeder is starting to look pretty limited, I wish it had more room for descriptions: I haven't really used it in awhile past the initial spurt. Always a good test of a tool, to see if you're going to be ongoing. I signed up at Kaboodle, which has been compared to a more pretty (and feature-rich) del.icio.us.

All these funny names, even the word "blog" sound pretty freakish if you're new. Keep repeating them and they become a part of your mindspace. If you look closely enough at any word, it starts to look strange. *gazes*

I'm still waiting for Second Life to be namedropped in a chart-topping rap hit. No, my dream of Wu-Tang Clan joining us inworld hasn't faded either. I pay my respects to the Shaolin!

Something I haven't seen in SL yet, show it to me if you know where it's been done: you know how you can use texture repeat and offset values to do "texture zoning"? I.e. one uploaded texture actually has a number of sections. Well, I'd like to see this done with QuickTime movies streaming inworld. Slice it into quarters to keep it simple, and display each quarter on a different video screen. Likely usage is a club's visuals, so the movie would be soundless—you'd have a music URL streaming instead. Voila, a cheap-and-fun hack for showing different movies on a single parcel. Caveats: they'd have to be the same length. I know we have far more original texture crafters today than we did a year ago, so it's time VJs follow suit.