As I stated earlier, I'll be giving away 10 copies of "The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life" to giveaway to my readers. I'm still thinking of a good idea, but it will probably be something really easy.
Based on my experience with people trying to write about Second Life, I should post my expectations here, briefly:
- Due to the speed of SL's evolution, a few things already outdated
- The same names we always hear being thrown around
- Starax and DanCoyote portrayed as the only real artists in SL
- Lots of noob avatars
- At least one mis-attribution of a major project in SL to the wrong person / company
- Zero instructions on how to deal with lag, and tweak your system and application's settings to best view SL
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I just wanted to follow up with you personally about an announcement you may have received about IFAW's upcoming public briefing in "Second Life" today at 2 PM and 9 PM EST. You may attend either briefing, depending on which one best fits your schedule. The briefing will be held on Progressive Island at the IFAW facility.
We will be presenting the findings of our new report on this year’s baby harp seal hunt in Canada as well as unveiling a new video.
I hope you will be able to attend despite the short notice. If you'd like to mention the event to your readers, that would be wonderful.
Awesome, thanks!
I'm all for discussing clubbing baby seals, especially in the context of how we should stop being such lazy people and only care about cute animals, and start being concerned with conservation of all animal species, fuzzy and cute or insectoid and hideous.
And I love how your comment is completely out of context with my post. That sort of takes away from your legitimacy, huh? If you folks spent as much time stopping global warming as you do your stupid baby harp seal hunt crud, maybe you'd help more than just the abundantly plentiful and probably tasty seals. (Hey, killer whales prefer the taste!)
Oh, and I forgot - I personally am not a fan of baby harp seal snuff films. It's kinda like - you know, that's why I have a butcher to cut up my hamburgers for me, yannow?
Please go save an animal that's actually endangered!
OMG, if I feared that this might be a total amateur hack job, I'm not reassured by the sound of this. Guess I'll stick to doing it rather than reading what a cash-in merchant makes of it!
Margherita, these are just my predictions, not my impressions from the book yet. :)
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