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The Titanic Comes Home to Belfast
One hundred years after it carried 1,517 people to their deaths in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic, the Titanic has come home to Belfast. I’m not talking the rusting physical remains of the original, but her digital ghost, a virtual replica resting in the waters in the harbor at Virtual Belfast. I’ve seen the movies, read the books, listened to the history lessons, but nothing brought home the full tragedy and loss of that night like my first sight of the hull’s ghostly silhouette in the murky gloom. You feel the cold in this place. You strain to identify objects looming in the dark. The silent circling of…
Catch-Up Week
Jolie and Waster in the Swamp Hey it’s Jolie again. This is catch-up week in the contest. Thanks to all of those already here and working hard to find Nara. This week’s feature world is the Quarterz Swamp. It may sound and look intimidating, but it’s really quite beautiful. To encourage you all to give it a try, we’re going to give anyone who logs into the world a thousand points. Yup, just log in and you’ll be in the drawing for the Nook Color. Spend five or more minutes inworld and you’ll be in this week’s gift card drawing. If you’ve already made the points you need to get…
Extreme Makover Tutorial
Here’s the shopping video I promised. It’s a little hard to read these menus so, I’ll talk you through what happens. We start with Lilly in the hall outside the gift shop. Most of the items you all would be interested in are on the wall directly opposite the entrance. There are plenty of things you aren’t ready to learn about yet. We’ll stick to avatars and clothes. Avatars, for our purposes consist of a shape, hair, eyes, and skin. Lilly wants you to see a noticeable makeover, so she left-clicks the picture of a male avatar. The card comes up asking if she wants to keep that object and…