Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
This video is loaded with meaty good information. A lot of how things are working is explained. Well worth the time to listen if you are trying to work with Bento or non-Bento animations.
0:00 – Troy Linden talks about fixing mesh uploader’s LoD generator.
3:30 – Vir Starts meeting. Notices new avatar models.
A basic idea in the free market and civilization in general is theft and misrepresentation are bad things. I suppose that is why we love politicians. 
So, when we find a place where theft and lying are harming people many of us will step up and say something. So, Strawberry Singh has spoken in Full Perm Marketplace Scams. Yay, girl!
Check her article to get the full story.
I think we need better tools to help us in our battles against the ethically and morally challenged of Second Life™. There is also the problem of how much time can we ask the Lab to spend on devising those tools when we have much more fun stuff that they need to be working on?
I missed this when Aki released it three months ago.
The location for Project Bento meetings has changed from what is said in the video. They now meet in Hippotropolis, Agni (the main grid) on Thursdays at 1 PM SLT/PT. I think they moved to the main grid to make it easier for more people to get to the meetings.
Mesh Body Addicts is a fun and informative site. The recent article AC and Jellydolls: Tutorial and Popular Bodies list took some effort. The list gives the ACI for each of the mesh bodies being marketed in Second Life™. There are some brands I was unaware of. So, that is a plus too.
The list at Mesh Body Addict’s site is alphabetical. Handy for finding your body. I wanted the list arranged in order of ACI so I could see the best, lowest ACI, and worst, highest ACI, for lag. So, I resorted the list:
by Status Linden on 08-23-2016 11:06 AM [Posted 11:03 AM PDT, 23 August 2016] We are aware that some users are currently being logged out, and all users are currently unable to log in to Second Life. Additionally, please refrain from transacting on the LindeX on in-world as purchases are likely to fail. Some regions … Read more
This week there are no roll outs to either the main or RC channels. That says there will be none of the normally planned region restarts this week.
The main viewer is version 4.0.7.318301. No change since last week. This seems to be the least crashy of the viewers I’m using.