Here’s something interesting…

…Torley’s got his own island, which is called Here.

YAYZERAMA!

Lindens drop Panther support? That’s unpossible!

Amazingly, some people still use OS X 10.3, and a couple are whining because of last Thursday’s announcement. I don’t know why they expect Panther support when pretty much every piece of software for OS X released in the last couple years or so requires 10.4, if not 10.5. Not to mention the fact that Panther users make up a quarter of a percent of logins.
At least Windows 2000 is still supported

One can only wonder…

how the Herald can spin this grid status post.

Avatar Rendering Costs

With the recent release of the 1.20 release candidate, a new UI look is headed our way, plus support for 3D controllers and scripted glow. But these features pale in comparison to a new and somewhat controversial feature: avatar rendering costs.

If you select Rendering → Info Displays → Avatar Rendering Cost from the Advanced menu in your client (press Ctrl+Alt+D to show the Advanced menu if necessary), numbers will appear over each avatar. These are their rendering costs, which can go from 1 to about 10,000 or 20,000. The lower scores appear green, moderate scores (about 1,000) are yellow, and anything over about 2,000 is red.

I spent a little time experimenting with attachments, and found out some of what makes ARC’s go through the roof (and surprisingly, things that have little or no effect on them).

HTML on a Prim!

They’ve just released the 1.19.1 release candidate, which adds Web pages to the kinds of media that can be displayed on a prim. While you can’t actually interact with the Web pages, they are dynamically rendered, so things like this CSS border clock will work.

lol @ (cr)Apple

Thanks to a Goatse gaping hole in (cr)Apple’s QuickTime, you can get pwned just by visiting any retard’s land. Phoenix’s advice? Turn off media streaming, except in places you trust. My advice? Replace that crap with VLC (last year I said it wouldn’t be possible, but with the open source client, now it is).

(and if anyone gets any ideas, enjoy your b& and v&amp

Aimee Weber™

[Virtually Blind article]

It’s almost official, Aimee Weber’s avatar will soon be a registered trademark.

Vlad Bjornson’s Animated Sculpties

[YouTube link]

Vlad Bjornson has created an even better morphing sculpted prim you can see at the Highland Cliffs. He did this with his own script, which updates the sculpted prim at 8 frames per second. The Insider has blogged about this, and in the comments, Qarl said that morphing sculpted prims that don’t require “janky scripts” may be on the horizon.

And the Red Forman Dumbass Award goes to…

this idiot (courtesy of the Incident Report):

Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
Violation: Terms of Service: Gambling
Region: Sandbox Goguen
Description: Operating a casino … in the sandbox!
Action taken: Warning issued.

(edit: And another one! Shoulda used IRC…)

Date: Thursday, September 6, 2007
Violation: Community Standards: Rules of Conduct
Region: Balance
Description: Engaging in conversation about crashing a sim
Action taken: Warning issued.

Humpty Hump

[YouTube link]

EPIC LULZ.