Cassie: Winter Cuteness from Inga Wind

Perfect for a day at the ski slopes or just wandering around in the snow! Cassie comes in gray, black, brown & red (shown). Price is $450L (10% group discount) and includes a full range of mesh sizes plus resizable boots!

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Colbert tackles NSA spying in Second Life

Pretty funny stuff. Read the original post on Joystiq.com and watch the video cut via the linky below.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/17/colbert-tackles-nsa-spying-in-second-life

As Massively commented, we can excuse the ancient and lame joke about Second Life participants not having a first life only because the rest of the bit is pretty funny. I only wish that voice actually sounded that good.

Spies infiltrate online games including Second Life

From the New York Times....

Not limiting their activities to the earthly realm, American and British spies have infiltrated the fantasy worlds of World of Warcraft and Second Life, conducting surveillance and scooping up data in the online games played by millions of people across the globe, according to newly disclosed classified documents.

So all those avatars with the last name "SecretSpy" may really be -- secret spies. But seriously, how much money can you really move through WoW or Second Life? Most people have a hard enough time getting their money out of SL into Paypal legitimately let alone doing it on the sly. :P

Full story here: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/10/world/spies-dragnet-reaches-a-playing-field-of-elves-and-trolls.html

Alpha Mask bug triaged by Linden Lab

The bug I reported via the JIRA (see link below) is apparently serious enough that it has been "triaged" by Alexa Linden. I believe that means it's a "must fix ASAP" sort of thing.

http://snickitty.blogspot.com/2013/11/weird-transparency-alpha-in-second-life.html