Caledon vs Pterodactyls

If someone made a film called Caledon vs. Pterodactyls would you go see it? Darn right you would!
What about Zeppelin vs Pterodactyls? Of course, it is practically the same thing! Well this movie was ALMOST made by the legendary Hammer studio back in the 70s…and the story doesn’t end there.

Another Match

 

Just to prove the point I made about hysterical, only vaguely factual media attacks on SL in my post Flames and Matchboxes, I present the following story from news.com in Australia.
That griefer who caged you last week may not be just another stupid kid, but according to this article could be an Al Qaeda [...]

Flames and Matchboxes

Rumors seems to follow Linden Labs the way liquor stores follow Lindsay Lohan…and like the Freaky Friday star, LL certainly seems to be making no great effort to drive them away.
In the tech blogs, Second Life is always just a few days from death, and if not, they have the stake and mallet all ready. [...]

Ban is the New Black

It seems that Linden Labs is not the only content provider banning that activity they do not approve of. More and more movie studios are attempting to ban such activities as smoking and drinking, in order to keep people from emulating their screen idols.
Part of me dismisses this out of hand as VooDoo Morality, but [...]

A Bowl of Fresh Milk

 
One of the legends of filmmaking and my personal favorite director, Ingmar Bergman, died today at age 89. I can honestly say my favorite film of all time is his masterpiece, The Seventh Seal. Watching it when I was still a teenager was for me a sort of ephiphany. It taught me a great [...]

BardHaven Begins Part 4A

The following is the conclusion of an account of the first meeting between Miss Kirawill Collingwood and the young Zealot Benmergui, Baron of BardHaven.
It is designed to be read in parallel with similar entries by the Baroness, which may be found HERE. Our story picks up after the lady’s reunion with the Baron has been [...]

Sex and Syndication?

William Shakespeare has gone through numerous deaths and rebirths in the literary world. His works have been dissected, mashed up and then reformed into diverse and often bizarre new creations to match each age and taste that followed his Elizabethan splendor.
It seems that now the same fate is beginning to befall Jane Austen. In [...]

Caledon in Motion

I will admit that as voice comes closer to actuality, I have been considering of late other ways to take Caledon to the next phase. Having dismissed Scent technology out of hand I began considering ways to improve the interface to take advantage of the unique nature of Caledon.
Wouldn’t it be convenient if there was [...]

Hip, Smart, Empty

Second Life seems to be everywhere in the media today. In fact, Second Life was featured as a major article in three very different publications this last week…Newsweek, Technology Review and Wired.
What did they have to say? Well for me it boils down to their basic interpretations of what SL is…Hip, Smart or Empty.

…In a Strange Land

The first book I remember reading for myself, from cover to cover, that didn’t have a picture on every other page, was Robert Heinlein’s Have Space Suit, Will Travel. It’s mix of technology with youthful idealism and the sense that anything was possible proved a touchstone for most of my teen years, and still is [...]

Coming Soon…

Coming soon, to a Caledonian blog near you….
One tranquil summer morning, the peaceful sea near Caledon is rent asunder as, exploding upward in a cataclysm of steam and Cavorite shavings, a strange ISLAND crowned by a seething volcano takes it’s place offshore, like a vulture hovering over the shoulder of a man eating Salmon Pate [...]

D’oh, My Lord

I came across an interesting message and graphic in my email box today and felt that I had to share it with my readers, as there has been a passion of late for taking tests and being “classified“.
Daemons, Hogwort’s houses…that is all very well and good. However, when all is said and done, wouldn’t you [...]

End of an Era

A publication to which I owe a great deal of my knowledge of the world around me, and to which this very blog owes a considerable debt for it’s style and general outlook is soon to be no more.
Yes, World Weekly News will no longer be sold as printed copies.

Fashionably Furry

Considering that the next target of Linden morality is rumored to be the Furry community (see an essay I will be posting here soon) I find this tidbit of non-Caledonian Aetheric flotsum to be especially rich.
It seems that a major fashion magazine is running a couture pictorial on fur coats and jackets…with a decidedly Necro-Yiffie [...]

BardHaven Begins Part 3A

The following is the continuation of an account of the first meeting between Miss Kirawill Collingwood and the young Zealot Benmergui, Baron of BardHaven.
It is designed to be read in parallel with similar entries by the Baroness, which may be found HERE. Our story picks up after the Baron has left Miss Collingwood in his [...]