Archive for March, 2008

Linden Labs does it again with SecondLife woes

Published at March 25, 2008 in Second Life and First Life. 3 Comments

(and yes, I know that they’re called Linden Lab, and it’s called Second Life, but this is just for protest ;) )

Well, Linden did it again with their ridiculous new trademark policy. True, I signed up for that inSL™ program, but, who says we have to give up our free use of the Second Life name? (Nope, no ™ there.) True, businesses will have to do that, but we should us bloggers and talkers use that weird and out-of-context ™ mark? Why should we stop expressing our thoughts freely, without a stupid law requiring us to add a ™ after every stupid name Linden Lab registered? Why?

Let’s say i’m talking about having my own iPod, and, I just blogged about buying it:

Yay! I finally got my iPod™! Now, I just need to fire up iTunes™ and download my entire library to my iPod™… Ugh, it’s so much better than that Zune™ Microsoft™ have been trying to advertise for so long! It works much better, and it runs homebrew :D Plus, it has a graphics chip (by the world’s worst graphical cards makers, Intel™) so it can render 3D stuff :D . I wonder if it can run Second Life™, There™ or even The Sims Online EA-Land™…

Why should I stick a TM there every few words? Why should I add a small symbol that takes a few more seconds every time I add it, but ends up taking a whole minute in a post (in total) ? Why? I say we don’t use that ™ symbol, and if Linden care so much for their TM symbol, then make an exception for personal blogs! (News companies will still have to use it, they will have a serious legal issue if they don’t)

So… Who’s with me?1

(legal text)2

  1. I don’t have to use the ©, ® and ™ since i’m outside the United States, in Israel. I can also use the Second Life name written in Hebrew letters like it was a free word around the internet, as it is not a trademark this way. [↩]
  2. Linden Lab and Second Life are named how they should not be, only to express the problem us bloggers have now run into. Linden Lab and Second Life are registered trademarks of Linden Research, Inc. and are not affiliated with me, Smiley Barry, in any way. [↩]

The (Habbo) Experience

Published at March 5, 2008 in Cool stuff online and Habbo Hotel. 2 Comments

After looking in the net for a few fun stuff, outside my regular “work-day” hours, I came about this nice old Habbo tutorial, and a music player containing the music from it and other, but, in low-quality. :???: Here they are, and, i’ve contacted the developers of the site who hosts the player, called HabboRing.com, to send me the music files. I kinda like those 8-bit music tracks, and when I get my iPhone, I may use the “Experience” track as my ringtone! :D I couldn’t embed the tutorial due to some code issues, so I placed a link here. (The Habbo Experience)


Habbo Rap/Hip-Hop Music Player, created by Habbo Ring. Listen to more >>

 

YouTube Fun!

Published at March 3, 2008 in Links. 0 Comments

I gathered some links from YouTube, and thought i’d share them with you! (Sorry for using the “More…” tag, just that, it’s filled with YouTube videos embedding, and I don’t want you to freeze on my site due to over-use of Flash… ;-)) Continue reading ‘YouTube Fun!’

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