The "nipplegate" of Linden Labs
Broadly offensive, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
Nadine sent me a link to her blog, after reading it i was just stunned.
Following the link to Burning Life blog of Gavin, i found the following text:
[10:10] Iridium Linden: Hi GavinLeigh. Thanks for your note. I did tell Vicero that bits (ex: nipples) could not be shown in a PG sim. Perhaps we can reassign your plot to a Mature Burning Life sim. I’ll investigate and get back to you. Or perhaps you can make the breast without so much detail. I know that’s a lot to ask, but let’s see if we can find an alternative first.
This is just stupid, maybe stupid is not enough. Shall we hide the nipples of the mothers to their childrens? Should we hide Venus de Milo, or David, or any classic sculpture in a sex shop?
I totally agree with Vint, Laetizia and Dandelion in this:
I demand an official apology on the Second Life blog, containing the words overzealous, overstepped, clear and boundary. I demand that the statue be allowed to stand on the intended spot, in her full nude glory, with a notecard giver next to it to give out the full text of said blog.
Nudity is natural, is beautyful. We are not talking about porn, we are talking about beauty, about art. And anyway, all residents are supossed to be +18, so all this is even more stupid.
Places to visit in Second Life #7: Kowloon
Hey man!, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
I was thinking in how would i start this post, and one sentence came to my mind: “If you like Midian City you will love Kowloon”, at least in the sense of the style, atmosphere, etc.
Kowloon is a RPG sim for japanese people, most of the texts and notecards are in japanese (although the big signs are in Chinese, Kowloon is in Hong Kong) and just a few in english, so if you don’t speak japanese go and enjoy the place.
The architecture, the textures work, the lightning, the sounds… all this is really great. When you arrive there remember to push “Play” in the sound button of your client, there are a lot of ambient sounds that are played through the “music” system of Second Life, this sounds change depending the area, and sometimes are… spooky.
After crossing the entrance of Kowloon you will find a “commercial” area (in the image), avatars and other objects for sale, from here you arrive too to the “Free Market”, interesting objects for sale there too. After that, feel free to explore the maze of alleys, but be careful, is really a maze, and is easy to get lost, walk in circles or arrive to a dead end. There are a lot of places to explore or discover, bars, restaurants, temples, …
In the hotel near the entrance there are some “challeges” to follow, notecards with instructions in japanese and english.
There are some apartments for rent there, but just for japanese spoken people, the “rental system” takes you to a webpage in japanese.
The sim creators have for sale most of the textures, furniture and poseballs of Kowloon for a really good price (from 10 to 40L$).
Thanks to Khamudy Mannonen for showing me this place.
What's in your name? (from M is for Myg)
Remembering, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson
Taking a look at some other SL blogs i saw this post by Timothy Lilliehook about how we choose our Second Life names. All started in a a post by Mygdala March about it and is growing quickly through the SL blogosphere. Looker Lumet also posted about it, as CodeBastard Redgrave or some others. Just wanted to share this with you too.
My RL name is Raul, so that was the easy part, is not special, but i like it. Well, my real name is Raúl, but normally some applications don’t accept “´” because this sign doesn’t exist in english. Raúl is a contraction of the germanic name Rudolf and means “glorious warrior” or “glorious wolf”.
About Crimson, i like this color, i like how it sounds, and i remembered a movie called Crimson Tide directed by Tony Scott.
Faces of me
Faces of me, originally uploaded by Raul Crimson.
I think that Second Life is a place of expression. I try to express myself through photography in Flickr, through building. Other way to express yourself it through your appearance.
Moreover, appearance can be a way to explore inside you, to discover more of you.
We are like diamonds, full of facets that reflect light in different angles. This five avatars are some sides of me, wanted to put them together, wanted to show all we have more than one side.
My uber-masculine side, my femenine side, my naughty side (Mr. Peenie 
) and my sweet side, and me in the middle. We all live together with (almost) no conflicts.
When my uber-masculine side shows his impulsiveness then the femenine side calm the situation, when the naughty side tryes to do a bad joke then the sweet side changes a bit the joke just for not to hurt people. All that doesn’t mean conflict, just balance.
Exploring your femenine side when you are a man is the hardest part. Not for myself, but for some other people. I normally use my female avatar for photography or in private, once i used it for exploring the grid a lot of time ago. When i was just teleported to Cocololo Island (i like that place) there was a girl there, we started to talk, after one or two minutes she asked if i was a man or a woman IRL because my name is a male name. I told her i’m a man and then changed to my “standard” avatar, but in my mind the idea was: “Should it matter if i’m a man or a woman? You want to talk or you want to fuck?”. Maybe she asked that with a good intention, but was a bit unpleasant to fell questioned about my appearance just because my avatar’s gender was not the same as my RL gender.
Almost nobody will question you if you want to be a neko, a gorean, a vampire, etc… (well, maybe if you want to decide to be a furry will be almost the same, i know it from experience, but this will be another story)
My vacation place
Sitges, originally uploaded by GuitarBrother.
Yes, still on vacation 
This is the place where i’m relaxing this days (photo is not mine). Is a nice village called Sitges, about 40km south of Barcelona. I have to work this weeks 
but i’m going every evening after work here and spend every day some time on the beach, having some evening sun and listening the waves.
Just wanted to share this with you, see you all soon inworld.
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