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My favorite vehicle in SL got an extensive facelift. The newest Flying Tako is a sailboat powered by Second Life’s own wind, and it is both fun to sail and easy on the eyes.
The Tako 3.1 sails just as nicely as its predecessor, the 2 series. You have the option of propelling the Tako with SL’s native wind, a fixed “practice” wind, or “race” wind provided in official races. But this is all old news to anyone who’s sailed a Tako before.
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I was looking over the map on the Second Life home page, and a distinctive circular structure caught my eye in Georgean. Upon teleporting over to have a closer look, I found myself in the middle of a large event space for the 2ASE.
Searching through the forums, I ran across the 2ASE announcement, which doesn’t do much to describe what’s taking place. I expect to see lots of high geekery on display by this weekend, when the event officially takes place, some of which may or may not have something to do with satellites.
Kex Godel threw together a Second Life Random Release Notes Generator. This fabulous toy creates bogus release notes, some of which are uncanny in their plausibility.
One of my current favorites:
* Disabled building tools to reduce load.
** We may have to undo this in the next update.
Somewhat disturbing is the frequency with which notes have to do with either ponies or Torley Linden. I suppose I should be thankful that I have yet to encounter a note that features both.
