THE NEW WORLD NOTES TRAVEL GUIDE (Updated)

radeNote:  most of these entries include a direct teleport SLURL to the location, or keywords to find the location via SL's Find button.  When all else fails, IM the individual creator featured in the story.

Selected "World from My Window" Entries

Cocololo Island
The Caves of Modesta
Bliss Gardens
Octopia
Numbakulla
Nexus Prime
The Church of Elvis in Nampo
Octal Khan's Home iN Shamrock

Consumer Coolness

The anime-themed island of Nakama.
The dystopian paradise of Suffugium.
The interactive retail site of Stylehive.

Game On!

The RTS action of Tech War.
The full-blown swordplay of Samurai Island.

The Wonders of Creation

The Lost Gardens of Apollo.
The Eden of Serenity Falls.

Science, Technology, and Flights of Intellectual Fancy

The Tesseract House of Seifert Surface.
The Aerospace museum of Spaceport Alpha.
The opulent artificial ecosystem of Svarga.
UC Davis' schizophrenic hallucinations simulator.
Artificial evolution under the sea.

Lanna's List for August 14-20: Surfing, Surreal Art at Caerleon, Gilligan's Island Opens, and more...

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Friday, August 15 

2 PM – Exhibit Opening: Ahmad/Don Hosho
This exhibit showcases the digital portrait work of Ahmad Hosho (Don Hosho in RL). Hamlet chronicled his work in a recent New World Tableau. In Little Andalucia (click here to teleport).

10 PM – Fine Tuning Your Avatar
Come and learn some tips and tricks to tweak your avatar from the fine individual you are now into the stunning individual you always wanted to be. The course covers inventory control as well as editing and positioning attachments and accessories. In Tenera (click here to teleport).

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Saturday, August 16

11 AM – Second Life Surfing Association Shortboard Competition at Boneyard
The Second Life Surfing Association's (SLSA's) first competition of the 2008 Season II calendar, the SLSA shortboard competition takes place at Boneyard beach’s  pipeline waves (which break over Boneyard's nicely exposed rocky reef!). Only SLSA surfers may compete. Open for all spectators. In Boneyard (click here to teleport).

11 AM - Walking Tour: History of the Chilbo Community
Fleep Tuque leads a walking tour of the Chilbo community and sim! The tour will poke into the nooks and crannies of the community, visit the places and spaces where Chilbo began, and explore the hidden treasures and artifacts of the community's history. This starts at the Town Hall In Chilbo (click here to teleport).

12 PM – Exhibit Opening: Martha Margulis
Come to the opening of this exhibition of  Martha Margulis' (1928-2003) work at the West of Ireland gallery. Her award winning abstract paintings have been exhibited and collected in the US and internationally. In West of Ireland (click here to teleport).

1 PM – Virtual Ability Island Grand Opening
Come to the grand opening of an exciting sim with a new resident orientation center, advanced tutorials, and training facilities for individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions. The entire island is accessibility-friendly for new and experienced residents and will provide ongoing classes for people who want to search for and evaluate health information. In Virtual Ability (click here to teleport).

6 PM – Second Francisco: Playing at the Flilmore
As part of the Summer of Love in Second Francisco, there will be dancing to videos of bands playing at the legendary Fillmore Auditorium in a SL recreation. This session includes the legendary Grateful Dead, James Cotton Blues Band, Mothers of Invention, and Jefferson Airplane. In Belle Isle (click here to teleport).

8 PM - SL Shakespeare Summer Ball: The Tempest
Come dance with nymphs and goddesses, sorcerers and statesmen, drunken fools, mishap en monsters, airy spirits, and other denizen's of Prospero's isle. Guests are invited to choose a character from the play to RP at the Ball, or simply to come in their magical, classical, or Shakespearean best! In Winterfell Libris (click here to teleport).

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Sunday, August 17

11 AM – Exhibit Opening: The Surrealist Dance Hall Artist Collaboration
Come see this remarkable immersive art experience exploring surrealism at Caerleon Isle Artist Collective. The challenge: No right angles in a surreal environment that would encompass three distinct themes that cyclically morph from one to the other. In Caerleon Isle (click here to teleport).

5 PM – Silas Scarborough at Grand Opening of Gilligans Island
Come see Silas Scarborough perform at the opening of this sim reminiscent of Gilligan’s Island. Silas rocks his originals on keyboards, bass, vocals, and guitar. In Gilligan’s Island (click here to teleport).

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Monday, August 18

2 PM – Real Biz: Askpatty.com
As part of Real Biz on SLCN, Cybergrrl Oh interviews a company or organization representative and takes a tour of their build or sim. The guest this week will be Askpatty.com, a site for automotive advice for women. In Athena Isle (click here to teleport).

6 PM – Law010: Legal Discussion Forum
Rockcliffe Legal Forums are presented by experts in the field of law on a variety of topics including intellectual property, Copyright, Basic Contract (tort) law, and other subjects relevant to both Second Life and the business world. In Rockcliffe X (click here to teleport).

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Tuesday, August 19

4 PM - Livestrong Surf Classes
Livestrong, one of the surf spots owned by the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF), has weekly surfing classes every Tuesday at 4pm SLT, with surfing instructor Mick Lunasea. Ranked in the top 20 of the SLSA competition rankings, Mick teaches beginners and advanced classes. Lessons are free, but donations to the Foundation are very welcome.  In Livestrong  (click here to teleport).

6 PM - Virtual Artists Alliance workshop at the Chilbo Community Fair
Virtual Artists Alliance sessions are an opportunity for SL workshops in a casual atmosphere. The premise is simple: the host introduces a technique or concept used in SL building and the balance of the hour is dedicated to applying that idea. In Chilbo (click here to teleport).

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Wednesday, August 20

11 AM - The Palestinian Librarian: A View on Library Services in an Arab Place
Palestinian Librarian Heyam Enzo will discuss librarianship in the Gaza Strip, her experiences with opening a library in Second Life, and give a tour of her library on Cybrary City 1. Presentation will be a combination of voice and text. In Cybrary City (click here to teleport). 

3PM - Virtual Worlds Day Panel
This panel will feature a discussion about the current state of virtual worlds and how they may evolve in the future. What do we hope to see?  What would be a "bad" outcome? Panelists: Malburns Writer, Tara Yeats, Olando7 DeCosta. In Chilbo (click here to teleport).

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The Wild Card!
Looking for fun and adventure?  The Wild Card! highlights just the day, time and a SLurl for an event.  The Wild Card! may be anything, but I’ll try to pick something that promises to fun, lively, or fun engaging.

Sunday, August 17 at 11 AM (click here to teleport)

 Steampunk Space Party, WoW Machinima, Tiny Empires, and more...

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Friday, August 22

2 PM – The Wall V-2 – Final Performances!
This weekend marks your last chances to see the Wall V- 2! After 28 performances to more than 2000 avatars, come see the final presentations of this immensely popular SL by Cybernetic Art Research Project. In addition to the Friday show, there will also be a performance on Sunday, August 24 at 2 PM. This is likely to be a popular event; the shows start promptly at 2, so be sure to arrive early! In NMC Campus West (click here to teleport).

9 PM – Bitstream Boogie in Dominion
Come see this wonderful virtual blues trio playing in real time from different parts of the globe. Komuso Tokugawa (Tokyo, Japan), Noma Falta (Atlanta, USA) and HatHead Rickenbacker (Toronto, Canada) come together to perform a wide range of blues and boogie. In Dominion (click here to teleport).

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Saturday, August 23

8 AM – SL Business Association Meeting
This is the August meeting of the SL Business Association, a group for the business people of SL to come collaborate, network, and learn from each other.  The event will last about 2 hours and is a great time for people to making connections and contacts. In Alviso (click here to teleport).

11 AM – It’s Foxtrot Time
Love dancing? Come for the party to release Maar Auer’s newest creation: It’s Foxtrot time. To get into the spirit of the dance, there will be a performance by talented jazz musician Aira Jun as well as foxy oldies on Radio Riel. In Cherish (click here toe teleport).

11 AM - Second Life Community-Building: The Island Experience
This is one of a pair of panels that will take a look at lessons learned that can make - or break - communities in Second Life. What's the "glue" that holds virtual world communities together? What helps people engage? What are the challenges? What Second Life tools and features help - or hinder the process? Saturday’s panel will focus on island communities and Sunday's panel will focus on mainland communities. Saturday Panelists: Sophrosyne Stenvaag, Director, Extropia Core; Fleet Goldenberg, Community Manager, EduIslands II, 5 & 6. Moderator:  Tara Yeats.  In Chilbo’s Shrubbery Amphitheatre (click here to teleport).

11:30 AM -  TCH Surfers Open 2: Surfing Competition
TCH Estates' second full Surfers Open surfing competition is a monthly contest that has introduced a unique judging format that includes the votes of spectators.  Competition open to all entries on a first-come-first-served basis; registration starts at 11:30 and competition at 12:15. Spectators welcome on the viewing deck at TCH Enterprises. In TCH Estates (click here to teleport).

1:30 PM – Gigi, Bijou and Mirai Fashion Show
Come see designs by these wonderful fashion shops. In Innocence (click here to teleport) .

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Sunday, August 24

12 PM - Second Life Community-Building: The Mainland Experience
This is one of a pair of panels that will take a look at lessons learned that can make - or break - communities in Second Life. What's the "glue" that holds virtual world communities together? What helps people engage? What are the challenges? What Second Life tools and features help - or hinder the process?  Panelists: Fleep Tuque, Land Steward, Chilbo Community Building Project; Prokofy Neva, Owner, Ravenglass. Moderator: Tara Yeats. In Chilbo’s Shrubbery Amphitheatre (click here to teleport).

12 PM – Machinima: The Demise
Machiniplex will be screening The Demise, a World of Warcraft machinima created by Surgee.  Surgee has fallen unto some difficult financial times so this screening will also serve as a benefit to help get this talented director a new computer so can keep making his excellent films.  In HatHead (click here to teleport).

2 PM – Discuss Coming of Age in Second Life with Author Tom Boelltorff
The Steelhead Public Library is sponsoring a conversation with Tom Bukowski (Tom Boellstorff in RL).  Tom is the author of Coming of Age in Second Life. Tom is Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of California, Irvine and Editor in Chief of American Anthropologist. He hosted the recent atomic-world conference "Cultures of Virtual Worlds," and has been an embedded anthropologist in Second Life since 2004.  His new book is an anthropological study of Second Life's cultures and subcultures. In Anteater Island (click here to teleport).

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Monday, August 25

9 AM – Everything You Wanted to Know About Tiny Empires But Were Afraid To Ask
Are you curious about how to play the Tiny Empires HUD game?  Come on down and have all your burning questions answered. In Wollaston (click here to teleport).

1 PM – Coda Cazalet in Bosamba
Come hear Coda Cazalet’s talented singing and saxophone performance.  In Chartreux (click here to teleport).

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Tuesday, August 26

12 PM – Lessons in Second Life
This is an open table forum centers on what can be learned in SL in both formal and informal settings. The forum is open to faculty, students, and interested parties of all kinds. In Hyperborea (click here to teleport).

2 PM – Help I Have a Fire in My Kitchen!
This workshop on cooking is a humorous look into the adventures of a single parent who learned the hard way and with a great deal of trepidation how to cook, feed his children, friends and the rare date with a measure of dignity and (hopefully) good food - recipes are included!  In Akamu Cove (click here to teleport).

4 PM – SL Photography Talks: Prad Prathivi
Prad Prathivi will be talking about his approach to photography. This lecture is part of a series presented on Tuesday and Thursday in August by The Photo Institute, a completely in world school for virtual photography.  The winners of Koinup’s Quintessence contest will be announced. In Vehicle (click here to teleport).

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 Wednesday, August 27

8 PM – Movie Night at Second Cinema Theater: The Wall
The life of the fictional rock star 'Pink' is the subject of the visually evocative cult film based upon the music and visions of the group Pink Floyd as portrayed in the album of the same title. Relationships, drug abuse, sex, childhood, WWII and fascism combine in a disturbing mix of episodic live action and lyrical animation drawn by British caricaturist Gerald Scarfe. In Amity Island (click here to teleport).

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The Wild Card!
Looking for fun and adventure?  The Wild Card! highlights just the day, time and a SLurl for an event.  The Wild Card! may be anything, but I’ll try to pick something that promises to fun, lively, or intersting.

Friday, August 22 at 7 PM (click here to teleport)

11 AM - Nokia's Connected Worlds
This month’s Nokia Connected Worlds event focuses on the value of social networking. The event consists of three interesting parts. The first hour will be a hands-on, Get Connected event that highlights the many of the social networking platforms currently available. (Please sign for an account on OVI if you do not have one already -http://www.ovi.com, as this will be used as a major component of the event. ) The second hour will be the Nokia Virtual Business Panel discussion, where panelists drawn from various business disciplines within virtual worlds will take questions from the audience and discuss them.  The third hour will be both a continuation of the Get Connected event, and an after party hosted by Nokia's live Mediterranean DJ, Ren Diqui. In Nokia (click here to teleport).

3 PM – PrimProv Building Game
Constructive Education presents PrimProv, a building and guessing game for all SL residents.  One person is given a secret word and tries to construct something that exemplifies the word while other participants try to guess what the word. People have the opportunity to select a word based on their building skill level. In Ever After (click here to teleport).

5 PM - Book Discussion: What Would You Recommend?
A meetup for book lovers  to talk about good books and make recommendations to one another. In Atlas (click here to teleport).

7 PM – MichelleD Ecksol and Scott at Sunset Jazz Club
Michelle and Scott are a tremendous duo that plays what mostly could be described as acoustic rock, roots, or folk. Married to each other in RL, they bring together fresh and soulful vocals, meaningful songwriting, and instrumental finesse to make for a memorable performance.   In Laurel Arts Isle (click here to teleport).

Also this week: Storytelling, bulilding Facebook applications, and PR for your company on the cheap. All that and more after the jump...

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Friday, August 29

12 PM – Intermediate Scripting: Notecard Reader
If you have good working knowledge of scripting, this class will cover the ins and outs of a notecard reader. It will include an intro to lists, user defined functions, states and flow, and  will use the dataserver event to read notecard lines. The instructor doesn't use voice, and won't notice if anyone else does. In Spirit City (click here to teleport).

1 PM - House of RFyre Treasure Hunt
Treasure Hunt on Isle of RFyre; piece together of a full editions of Mastrius for Men or Twisted Swiss for Women while finding one-up treasures and others from Artisan's Market vendors. Also enjoy music from DJ Vengerax Vantongerloo at 3PM Saturday with dancing in the Market.  In Isle RFyre (click here to teleport).

5 PM – Club Host Training
New to SL and looking for work as a club host? This training will teach you how to be effective as a club host. The training covers topics such as: How to make a VIP, How to post a event, How to do a contest and how to operate most event equipment.  There is a 500L fee for this class. In Bear (click here to teleport).

6 PM – New Shoots III: A Fashion Showcase
Metro Models presents New Shoots III, a fashion show presenting the best in up-and-coming talent and will featuring fashions from Naive and Sweetest Goodbye. Seating is limited, please arrive early to secure a seat. This event will repeat on  Saturday August 30  at 12 PM.  In Luxury (click here to teleport).

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Saturday, August 30

9 AM – The Health of Our Oceans
This presentation and discussion will be centered on what we should know, why we should care, and what we can do about the oceans and of course the life that depends on our oceans' health.  In Better World (click here to teleport) (at the telehub, look for the fish bowl with the label "Center for Water Studies", click on it to teleport to the actual meeting place).

11 AM - VSA Surf Jam 6: Surfing Competition
The VSA Surf Jam is a monthly surfing contest organized by the Vibrations Surf Alliance on Bishara Resorts bustling Majini Island beach club. The monthly Surf Jam's are members only events, the VSA is free to join and always on the lookout for new surfing members. 20 surfers are expected to face off in four preliminary heats, narrowing down to 10 surfers in the semis and 5 for the finals' heats. Spectators welcome on the stands above neighbouring Bishara Island. Saturday evening sees the launch of Bishara Resorts new surf style club 'Boardies', which has its official opening following the VSA Surf Jam. In Bishara Island (click here to teleport).

11 AM – Sunday Morning Storyteller: Derry McMahon
Join Derry at the West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center for fun stories at the end of Summer. In West of Ireland (click here to teleport).

1 PM – Exhibit Openining: Arthole Season 2
Arahan Claveau and Nebulosus Severine will relaunch Arthole with exhibits of their new work in the Level 2 of the Gallery. In Kress (click here to teleport).

6 PM – Winston Ackland at Nantucket Theater
Winston Ackland brings his eclectic blend of covers and originals influenced by blues, punk, new wave, rock and more. Elvis Costello said recently that his rendition of Elvis's Pump It Up was his all time favorite of any cover of any of his songs. In Nantucket (click here to teleport).

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Monday, September 1

9 AM – Building Facebook Applications at Mystic Classroom
.Kitviel Silberberg is currently partial owner and CTO @ Never Travel Alone. Kitviel has written Facebook applications, Angels & Demons, UniWorld, and Words Are All I Have, besides having coded Never Travel Alone. The Workshop will start with explaining FaceBook, Social Networking, Viral Networking, and continue to actual development of a FaceBook Application, using PHP, AJAX, JavaScript, MySQL and Flash. In Nantucket (click here to teleport).

3:30 PM – Codependence Support Group
Are you codependent? A new group is forming for a safe and open sharing environment for codependents to share their experience, strength & hope for recovery as codependents. In Caldbeck (click here to teleport).

7 PM – Little Yoshiwara at Asagao Treasures
The lovely Geisha and Maiko of Little Yoshiwara Okiya present stories, dance, clothing and music from the past of Japan and China.  Come see, hear and learn more about parts of Asian culture. In Asagao (click here to teleport).

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Tuesday, September 2

12 PM – PR for Your Company on the Cheap
Athena Isle Women presents Dani Gibbs speaking about PR for your company on the cheap. The event is held as a roundtable discussion text chat.  In Athena Isle (click here to teleport).

3:30 PM – Thinkers: Real Digital People
According to Ian Bell, the ultimate goal of lifelogging is "a machine that can act like a personal assistant, anticipating its user's needs". If such AI systems are able to draw upon tremendous stores of data in personal archives, might we see the rise of digital people who can convincingly act like humans, or even specific people? All are welcome to this discussion. Please note that by attending you agree to be quoted in a future essay. In Support for Healing (click here to teleport).

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Wednesday, September 3

1 PM – Geo Cache Hunt on Etopia
If you love geo caching in RL - hunting for clues and finding items in hard to find places, here’s your chance to enjoy it in SL. At the landing spot click the geo cache sign for info and the first clue...then find them all and get a great package of free gifts at the end.  The hunt includes some great rides, some wonderful scenery and a true challenge.  In Etopia (click here to teleport).

6 PM – Hot Topics: Activism and Protest in Virtual Worlds
As part of its Hot Topics discussion series, Info Island hosts discussions on topics of interest and relevance to your Second Life or real life. This month’s topic is Activism and Protest: What's its place in a virtual world? In Info Island (click here to teleport).

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The Wild Card!
Looking for fun and adventure?  The Wild Card! highlights just the day, time and a SLurl for an event.  The Wild Card! may be anything, but I’ll try to pick something that promises to fun, lively, or intersting.

Friday, August 29 at 8 PM (click here to teleport)

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