FESTIVAL LATIN STOCK - Musicians' Manor Opening Event

June 14, 2008

Place FESTIVAL LATIN STOCK

11.30am SHAMANES FULL BAND, 10 MUSICIANS LIVE
1pm HEATH ELVEHJEM
2pm TRIO JAZZ LIVE
3pm JANO RUNO BOSSANOVA ARTIST
4pm WINTERS KANTO
5.30pm JOAQUIN GUSTAV GUITAR PLAYER
6.30pm DEXTER IHNEN
7.30pm WINTERS KANTO 30 minutos classical
8pm CACHO NOOTAN SINGER TANGO
9 pm CHELSEAMARIE NOEL
10 pm - open mic - signup : 20 min for 50 L$

please contact Morgue McMillan for the open mic to be listed

New summer collection show

Rocking Pirates

Pirates were the rockers of their times.
With their own laws and code of honour they defied the establishment. Rebels to some, heroes to others, feared or idolized they never left indifferent and their names still make us dream today.

To celebrate these long gone rockers, and following the success of the Kiss tribute, Remember Island is throwing out another tribute, this time to Alice Cooper. It will be this Saturday at 2PM SLT on Remember Island . For a little taste of what you'll see, have a look at a previous concert.

If you prefer the quiet, stroll around and take in the peace of more secluded areas. Two of my favourite spots are on the mountain overlooking the bay where ships lay and above the grotto overlooking the sea.

A Wild Outlook: A furry’s thought’s on furries.

A Wild Outlook: A furry’s thought’s on furries.

By Naomi Finesmith

With any good explanation, the first thing one must do is define the terms, so allow me to define what “furry” is.


In my humble and limited opinion, a Furry is someone who finds the concept of anthropomorphized animals to be attractive. Under this broad spectrum are countless manifestations.


“Furry” means something different to everyone, but I rather doubt that many would disagree the common denominator is a simple attraction to a concept. I suppose a good comparison would be with those who like Star Wars (and indeed there is overlap, taking into account the Ewoks, Wooikies, and Hutts.).


We go to conventions, worship popular figures from afar, dress up in elaborate costumes, buy merchandise, read stories… that sort of thing. But what sets furries apart is the highly visible sexual component.


I personally theorize that since Furs are closer to their bestial nature (supposedly, anyways), thus we are less ashamed of our more base instincts. Or maybe there aren’t enough sites out there to offer a completely clean set of pictures, and since Sex sells, people cater to the demand. Whatever the reason, I will take a moment to debunk several of the myths surrounding Furrydom and the sexuality therein:


1. Not all furs want to have sex with actual animals. This is called “Beastiality”, and exists both in Furries and non-Furries, albeit a very small minority that’s larger and both more acceptable and noticeable amongst Furs.


2. Not all Furries are gay. Furs have a much higher ratio of homosexuals, bisexuals, and omnisexuals as compared to the rest of the population, it’s still less than 50%. The term “Furfag” is not only derogatory, it’s more than likely inaccurate too.


3. Not all furries believe they “Are” their animal. This is a case of yet another over-publicized minority known as the “Therians”. In this case, it’s closer to a religion than it is an interest.


4. There are female furries. I should know. I am one. Yes, there are males who masquerade as female, be it for any number of reasons, some good, some not so good, but again, they are a minority. Once more I must admit that there is likely a higher ratio of disguised males in furry-dom as compared to elsewhere, but if you meet a fur with a female avatar, you are most likely talking to an actual female.
5. No, not all furries are sex-fiends. It may seem that way, and indeed is a higher percentage of open and complex relationships, but the majority of those in relationships are exclusive, and I can speak with certainty that not all are sexually active IRL.
6. Not all furries wear costumes. Again, this is a case of a highly visible minority. Fursuits are expensive and bulky. They’re pretty much the domain of the well-off and the dedicated.


I hope this has answered some of your questions about the Furry fandom, and cleared up a lot of the misconceptions surrounding it. When you look back, it’s Furs that have established many of the older internet chat communities. FurryMUCK, Tapestries, Furcadia,

We’ve been around for a long time, and we’ll be here for a long time to come.


P.S by Anna Avalanche: Dear readers, what do you think about furry? Please leave your comment if you agree or disagree with Naomi Finesmith.

First teleportation out of “world”. Small step for Ruth, a giant step in metaverse!

After months of development, the Opem Simulator community has a lot to celebrate. There was a first teleportation for an open grid. I think this is good news and a step forward in the Web 2.0 and Metaverse

Even with a lot of controversy this is a really important step. The community's open source developers got to accomplish a great progress and plus, with the employees' of Linden Lab behind. This contradicts the first impression that Linden Lab doesn’t support the initiative of maintaining private servers a part from the main SL gird.

This week Zha Ewry and two Linden employees (Layla Linden and Tess Linden) completed a successful cross domain teleport from the official grid (managed by Linden Lab) to an external private grid!

However just the primitive avatar format got transported. Everyone arrived as Ruth (the generic, default avatar). The inventory and the finance system don’t cross the barrier among the worlds. That is due to configurations still in development. But this is a huge step forward. In a sense, someone said; “it’s the virtual world equivalent of the first Moon landing”. Maybe a small step for Ruth, a giant step for metaverse!

This means that in the near future anyone can have a private sim on your own house server computer connected to others. If you don’t know about OpenSim there is a brief on the post below.

What you think about this news? Please leave your comment about OpenSim, if you wish.

About OpenSimulator

The OpenSimulator Project is a BSD Licensed Virtual Worlds Server which can be used for creating and deploying 3D Virtual Environments. It has been developed by several developers. Out of the box, the OpenSimulator can be used to create a Second Life like environment, able to run in a standalone mode or connected to other OpenSimulator instances through built in grid technology. It can also easily be extended to produce more specialized 3D interactive applications.

Read more about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSimulator

OpenSIM video example