“Stupid should hurt.” ~ Unattributable

/me facepalms and takes a deep breath. Okay, kids…

Attention: Those of you covering yourself in invisiprims to “prevent” people from inspecting you — not only are you ineffective, but you are painfully stupid. Any monkey with a basic knowledge of SL can thwart your make-believe security system.

If you’re that insecure about someone finding out where you bought your hair, get over it. If you’re trying to hide the fact that you’re smothered in copybot items – you’re not fooling anyone, either.

What you are doing is making anyone with half a brain feel embarrassed about being in the same location that someone as dense as you would hang out.

Please stop.

Thank you.

Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual. ~ Edward Tufte

I participated in another episode of Designing Worlds / Meta Makeover this past Tuesday where I made over a rental pod located in the Extropia SIM. It occurs to me that letting people know when these types of things are happening ahead of time (or at the time) might be the primary purpose of having a blog and twitter account, but c’est la vie.

If you want to watch the episode, hear me babble incoherently about make-believe decor amid charming Brit accents and mutter “umm” enough times to make my high school debate teacher facepalm, CLICK HERE.

I mention most of the things I purchased for the design in the episode, but for those keeping track at home:

Cel Edman – Pixel Lab – Full perm sculpties / Soji Walls
Logan Bauer – Arctic Garden – Full-Perm Flowers
Snowy Hoobinoo - epiSTEMS – Whale Tail, Flower/Plant Sculptures)
soror Nishi – Nishi Gallery – Plant Sculptures
Doris Pfeffer – * Fairy Dreams * – Full Perm Books
Dendre Benelli – Dendre’s Sculpties – Full Perm Open Book

Kermit: This guy’s lost.
Waiter: Maybe he sould try Hare Krishna.
Kermit: Good grief, it’s a running gag.
~ The Muppet Movie (via Jack Burns & Jerry Juhl)

You know, I really think I preferred when marketing was flat-out shameless. It was funnier. It also had muppet murder:

Small words from a small being, trying to attack what it doesn’t understand. ~ Alice Krige as the Borg Queen in ST:FC (via Braga and Moore)

I love my friends. Why they love me, remains a mystery…

Friend: You *have* to joinn Plurk!
Salome: Pretty sure the Constitution says I don’t.
Friend: You HAVE TO
Salome: I’ve joined Twitter.
Friend: But you need plurk, too.
Salome: Isn’t plurk just horizontal twitter?
Friend: nowell kinda, but they’re different.
Salome: Other than the number of syllables in the domain names, how are they different?
Friend: Just join already!
Salome: My trendy cap is recharging. If it’s still here in sxix months, I’ll think about it. course by then, you’ll have all moved on to Throwp or something.
Friend: You’ll reach twice as many readers if you tweet your plurks…or plurk your tweets
Salome: First of all, I’m pretty sure you’ve just discovered internet herpes by just typing that. Second of all, Plurking Tweet is now officially my replacement for C U Next Tuesday.
Friend: Come on, resistance is futile – You know you want to – all the cool kids are doing it -
Salome: Get off my back, you herpes-infested Plurking Tweet.
Friend: This is why you can’t have nice people.
Salome: Nice people are the aspartame sherbet standing in the way of my quest for the double fudge brownie sundae called life.
Friend: You’re such a plurking tweet.
Salome: Resistance is futile.

“If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1000 MPG.” ~ Bill Gates

15 MB Ouchies

You know the sad thing? I actually remember when this seemed like a perfectly reasonable price. I can buy a flash drive for $10 that has more RAM than my first 10 computers put together.

Yet my pizzas take longer to deliver. What happened there?