In continuing my new segment on highlighting the best weekly articles on the Second Life Update I have made a few new entries:
1. Linden Labs dropped a bomb announcing they will be collecting VAT from Europe Second Life players. When will Europe create their own version of Second Life like Japan has?
2. The Japanese [...]

In my previous article about Linden Labs is now charging VAT to Second Life players in Europe I expressed my personal outrage and it now looks like there is a huge negative response and Linden Labs is receiving many complaints about this policy change. Residents of Europe are going to file a complaint with [...]

I am heading over to the Dirt Magazine Second Life launch party. The Dirt magazine is created by Osayo Munro, Chester Howley, and Esmiel Posthorn. The Dirt Magazine Second Life launch party will be held on Sunday, September 30, 2007 at 9 pm Second Life time. The location of the Dirt Magazine [...]

The Japanese Second Life killer Meet Me has rolled out and will be open to the public in December. The Japanese game has some several differences than Second Life. For one, the graphics seem to look better. Another major difference is that the Japanese Meet Me is much more orderly and is [...]

Linden Labs is now charging VAT to Second Life players in Europe. The charging of VAT to Second Life players in Eurpoe meets Europe tax regulations. Linden Labs is again taking the stance of having no choice but to comply with laws. Individuals effected by the tax should be contacted by Linden [...]

Shocker of Shockers. Shortly after the Internet Explorer vulnerability was discovered Linden Labs now announces that the very method of web based logins will be used and replace the viewer login. Basically Linden Labs is requiring that you visit their web site every day. Kind of a pain in the butt if [...]

The Second Life physics engine Havok2 is being upgraded to Havok4. The upgrade to the Second Life physics engine should provide better and more realistic body dynamics and collisions. The upgrade to Havok 4 physics engine in Second Life will supposidly increase sim stability and reduce some lag frequently found in the virtual [...]

Tomorrow I will be headed over to the Transylvania (99, 23, 26) sim to check out the Linus Radford concert in Second Life. Linus Radford will be playing songs from different selections among the four different Linus Radford music albums. Linus Radford will also be playing some of his favorite covers. The [...]

Linden Labs delayed the rolling restart (must be running on windows servers) until Monday October 1, 2007 due to the huge amount of outages and problems including web site outages, friends online status, login pages, other section of the website, 503 errors, slow performance, phone support outages, and the viewer update download was also down. [...]

It seems like car garages these days are getting smaller and small. There is so little space for tool storage and for keeping equipment in the garage that a smart and compact cabinet or bin storage system is an absolute requirement to achieve and organized and functional garage or work environment. Please check [...]