Prim Perfect’s Guide to Third Party Viewers: The Basic: Second Life 1.23.5

To begin our series on the various viewers available to Second Life users, let’s start with the basics – the latest incarnation of the original viewer put out by Linden Lab – now in iteration 1.23.5 It’s still the standard that most others build on or deviate from and is, I suspect, still used by [...]

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Are you decorating your Linden Home for Halloween?

Are you decorating your Linden Home for Halloween?  Are you spending some of your 117 prims of Jack-o-Lanterns, witches’ broomsticks or ghosts to greet your visitors? Prim Perfect wants to know! Send us a description of how you are decorating your Linden Home (250-300 words) + a photo of the decorations. We’ll feature  our favourites [...]

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Designing Worlds travels Beaneath the Waves in New Babbage

Elrik and Saffia explore a whole new world beneath the waves of New Babbage … and find themselves embroiled in another adventure – one that might break Prim Perfect’s Prime Directive! Beneath the Waves in New babbage, posted with vodpod This was one of our New Babbage Mysteries, featuring the really stunning builds beneath the [...]

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What could possibly go wrong for Designing Worlds in New Babbage?

Join us today (Tuesday 5th October) as Designing Worlds makes a return visit to the amazing steampunk (and heavily industrialised) city of New Babbage. We’re asking you to join us at 2pm SLT, not in our usual studio location but at Piermont Landing in Wheatstone Waterways, where Miss Breezy Carver will be hosting a very [...]

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New SL Viewer Proposal: The Hermit

My plurkfriends got to hear me babble on this yesterday, but I thought I would lay out in excruciating detail what I would very much like to see in a Second Life viewer. As background: I run a few coffee shops in Second Life (the CocoaJava Cafe in New Babbage and the Java Jive in [...]

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Celebrating three years of Piermont Landing!

Tomorrow’s Designing Worlds show is rather special – and the viewing party will be held in a rather special place! It’s going to be one of our New Babbage shows (and long term viewers will realise that Elrik and Saffia have a history of getting in to trouble when they visit that amazing steampunk city!). [...]

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Making Strides Against Breast Cancer with the American Cancer Society in Second Life

As you may well be aware, October is  Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  Many of us have been affected by this terrible disease, having either lost friends to it, or know someone fighting against it. Many people here in Second Life are themselves breast cancer survivors. We’ve already reported on the planned events of the Boobiethon [...]

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Designing Worlds celebrates 100 shows!

Well, we didn’t have time to celebrate all one hundred of them on the actual 100th show, I’m afraid!Instead we looked at some of the moments that have stood out in our minds as being memorable as firsts – the first show, the first time Elrik appeared, the first time we had a Babbage drama [...]

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The Boobiethon in SL fights Breast Cancer

Second Life boobs will have a little more gravity this week! Led by Eva Bellambi and Sera Anansi, the community of Winterfell is again this year organizing a series of fundraising events to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise breast cancer awareness. The events are in coordination with the 9th annual Blogger Boobiethon, [...]

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Build-off Winners Have Prairie Style!

Last weekend’s Prairie Style Build-off was a smashing success!  There were so many fantastic builds, this judge had a difficult time choosing.  But I’m pleased to share with you the winners! The Pro Division saw a tie for first place between Camryn Darkstone and Kendra Ling.  Both builders really understood the Prairie Style principals of [...]

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