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One of the old Emerald dev team members has gathered a new dev team and is coding a new TPV called "Phoenix" You can read about it in this blog entry From the Ashes. There are links to the new Phoenix site

Am I the only one who absolutely hates it? It's clunky, it's cluttered, it's busy; if you were used to the old 1/2-something viewer or one of the open source viewers [I use Imprudence or Emerald] there's no intuitive function to it at all. It's like Linden Labs is trying to give everyone everything all in one package and on one screen.

I've tried it for over a week now and unless there are some *major* designs changes I'm never going to use it.

MEH!

These two online radio stations have been added to my old tried-and-True 'Live 365' radio station, creating more on-line live streaming loves.

First up will be 'SOMA FM Commercial Free Radio' based out of the San Fran area. They stream a wide variety of genes.



SomaFM has several ecletic channels:

Our playlists are updated live via the recently played tracks link, which shows the last 15 songs played. Forther song histories are available via the Twitter link at the end of the listing.

Our charts show the top artists, tracks and newest adds for our channels. Charts are listed by spin (the number of times we played the song that week) and by listeners, which is the sum of the number of people listening to a channel each time we played that song or artist.

Groove Salad: A nicely chilled plate of ambient beats and grooves.	[charts] [recently played]
Secret Agent: The soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous life. For Spies and Pis too!	[charts] [recently played]
Drone Zone: Served best chilled, safe with most medications. Atmospheric textures with minimal beats.	[charts] [recently played]
Indie Pop Rocks!: New and your favorite classic indie pop tracks.	[charts] [recently played]
cliqhop idm: Blips'n'beeps backed mostly w/beats. Intelligent Dance Music.	[charts] [recently played]
Beat Blender: A late night blend of deep-house and downtempo chill.	[charts] [recently played]
Tag's Trip: Progressive house / trance. Tip top tunes.	[charts] [recently played]
Illinois Street Lounge: Classic bachelor pad, playful exotica and vintage music of tomorrow.	[charts] [recently played]
Space Station Soma: Tune in, turn on, space out. Spaced-out ambient and mid-tempo electronica.	[charts] [recently played]
Doomed: Dark music for tortured souls	[charts] [recently played]
Boot Liquor: Americana Roots music for Cowhands, Cowpokes and Cowtippers	[charts] [recently played]
Lush: Sensuous and mellow vocals, mostly female, with an electronic influence.	[charts] [recently played]
Digitalis: Digitally affected analog rock with a DIY mentality.	[charts] [recently played]
Suburbs of Goa: Desi-influenced Asian world beats.	[charts] [recently played]
Sonic Universe: NuJazz + avant-garde EuroJazz. Transcending the world of jazz with experimental takes on tradition.	[charts] [recently played]
Xmas in Frisko: SomaFM's wacky and eclectic holiday mix. Not for the easily offended.	[charts] [recently played]
Christmas Lounge: Chilled holiday grooves and classic winter lounge tracks. (Kid and Parent safe!)	[charts] [recently played]
Mission Control: Celebrating NASA and Space Explorers everywhere.	[recently played]
PopTron: Electropop and indie dance rock with sparkle and pop.	[recently played]
Covers: All covers. All the time. Nothing by the original artists!	[charts] [recently played]

And than there's 'Radio Rivendell' for those times you want to feel like just sitting down sharing a cool pull of draught just before leaving to discover how many weeks it will take you to hike from Longbottom to Rivendell.

For those who are online and can stream music into your gaming or virtual life environments, I've found these two group to be pretty easy. I know there are a lot of shoutcast streams out there, but Rivendell is currently the one I have playing in my little snow dusted corner of Second Life - the place I call 'The Barrowdowns' on the North-East corner of the Eternal Calm sim. Normally I have my security system in place because having a ;ot of unknowns dropping in on me make me a bit nuts, but for the holidays I have it off. So if you're a SL gridder, Come visit the Barrowdowns and say 'hi' to Tmayla Rotaru, the land owner there: sometimes in human guise and sometimes wear feline fur. It just depends.

From another SL LJ user's experience earlier today. Says it all as of late.




Have fun storming the grid.

For those of you who have followed the TV Show “Lost” and/or those who have had anything to do with Second Life, you might find this as amazing as I did.

For the record, I have never watched “Lost’, but I do play in SL. And one of the things I’m always fascinated with is the ability to build and create things from the single basic building block in SL known as ‘the primitive’ or just ‘ prim’. Each thing in SL is made up of a combination of prims – from the smallest piece of jewelry to the biggest building or tree. If you’re really lucky, something can be one prim, but on an average they start at 3 or 4 and go up into 50’s or 60’s or even the 100’s. And then each and every prim has to be colored or textured or both before it’s combined into the larger project. And then those textures have to be created off-line in something like Photoshop or Paintshop and uploaded into SL, and so on and so on and ditto. You don’t even *what* to know how many prims and separate scripts my Australian Sheppard ‘Conner’ is.

For example, here are shots of the front and back of my current house. The house itself is 55 prims [and that’s not much for something this big and complex] and about 5 different, separate scripts that control the doors and the transparency of the ‘window/walls. And that's just the house. not the steps or porch, the prayer flags on the front, the cat in the basket, etc. Just the walls, the floor and the roof.

View from the front yard.






View from the back yard.





Each area can only support so many prims – there are limits. The SL Servers can only handle so much in one given area. So when you buy/rent land, you have limits to deal with. This house is approx ¼ of the total allotment for the corner lot [I lave two lots side by side and can lump the total together].

Anyway, back to “Lost”.

As the article at the end of the URL I’m giving you states, a bunch of “Lost” fans decided they want to reproduce the island and create a place where fans could come and discuss things in SL. As sometimes happens, good ideas go in the crapper and the person who physical owned the land [well, he was renting server space from SL, but in-world that’s the same thing] disappeared. Since the owner could not be found, Linden Labs reclaimed the island. They did, however, open things up for one day so folks could come back and reclaim their works.

I’m sharing this because I am constantly amazed what folks can create with vision, a will and a few colored block stuck together.

Go. Watch the Vid. And enjoy.

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Oh, and if you happen to be on SL some time, just look for Tmayla Rotaru – a 4 ft. something ginger cat who’s currently living in a Japanese style house, building a new Koi pond and shopping way too much.