Don Linden just sounded the call for all of the Residents to "get out of the pool", so to speak, so I've been watching the front page of the Second Life website and seeing the population inworld drop. Appears to be some latency, as of this writing 6:17 AM), says 192 inworld. I have a big day planned. First Town Hall in awhile…
Snapzilla seemed to go brokers again, which sucked but reminded me of the last time I let Ano know about such a thing, and he's so great with the site. I hope lots and lots more Residents come and share their pictures. Oh, wait, site just flooded with an ingorge of photos, including this last one I took before I logged off. It's an abandoned hat store, I say this because the creator doesn't show up in Find anymore, and those creepy eyes are just bleeding with anarchic exhuberance or something. Bought a few, they're unfortunately not moddable as my caption indicates, but will see what can be done.
Now 6:25 AM and SL's front page (wish stuff I namedropped constantly got automagically hyperlinked to) shows 163 inworld. Wonder what's up with that. Maybe next time I shouldn't log out. 
Munchflower Zaius has her own sim, I forgot what the name was, think it's Nomine. Isn't it great what she's done with the place? I'd like to see more ground textures in SL, I really would. For all the variance in the gridverse when it comes to builds, the ground?and extensibly, trees and shrubbery?are pretty banal after a point. This is a great example of a fantastic ground texture, contrasted with a plywood base and some sort of scientific device in the foreground. I can think of few exceptional Resident-customized groundlings in SL: Taco's cartoony green comes to mind, and so do the rich beaches of Naughty. Any more you've seen??Inform!
Can there be too much of a good thing? I'm all for excessive indulgence and some things in SL are a rarity when it comes to quality in quantity. Here's a few, which I could see having broad use:
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aquariums (lotsa homes, shops, and restaurants could do with 'em)
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bridges over roads (scarce because of builds crossing Linden land, but possibility on more islands)
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multi-octave musical instruments that can?be "chorded" with the keyboard
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hat?megaplaza?
Like tater gems!
I hope one day?that damage-enabled will more accurately mean that, and when you get shot, you'll bleed progressively. I'm hoping for avatar decapitations, or even cartoonish flattenings. This tank, by Aleksandr Martov, would look totally badass if you could ride it into the Welcome Area and stand up and throw confetti. It'd be even cooler if someone aimed a rocket launcher at it and blew away a side with treads. I liked Carmageddon precisely because of being able to bash things up like crumpled paper. Reminds me in a way too, of the old Hot Wheels cars I had with parts you could slam and they'd quickly spin over, showing "damage". HUD? Doomface?