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The BBC is in production on an hour-long television documentary on massively multiplayer online games, and they’re looking for subjects to interview. If your avatar is “more like you than you are” — or even if you’re a more typical sort — get in touch with them and maybe you too can appear on British television. Email and more details after the jump. (more…)

A single prim hacked to enormous proportion in Second Life

The fundamental building blocks of the virtual world of Second Life are known as “prims” (short for “primitives”), and for various reasons come in sizes no larger than a 10 meter cube. But with the efforts to reverse-engineer the Second Life client going on over at libsecondlife (efforts recently given the stamp of approval by Linden Lab), it now seems something more is possible. Someone, reportedly someone at libSL, has been able to hack up a single 60×60 meter prim that not only doesn’t seem to require a script (which has been used in the past to make a small prim appear larger) but is copyable, transferable and partially modifiable to boot. That’s me up above, standing on the lower right corner of one I was given the other day. (Click the shot for a larger image.) While it could be very cool for builders, Linden Lab is reportedly concerned about the development for a number of reasons, and is trying to make the megaprims go away. (more…)