Just wanted to give a shout out to the team that has made friends-grid totally rock!

Sometimes the techies get overlooked, and they are the people who make this virtual world possible.

friends-grid is not a simple job to run….it is probably a pain in the butt because I have a minor addiction to scripts.

These guys are how I hosted a huge party yesterday with 31 people and 8,000 scripts in that region alone…. with no lag!

Thank you hosting4opensim

Midtsommernatt i Norge
On Friday, June 23rd, from 12 p.m., we will be celebrating midsummer night in the "Lofoten" Norway.
Come and enjoy the longest day of the year and the midnight sun.
Djane Loru provides the musical entertainment and also broadcasts on her web radio http://stream.laut.fm/artdestiny.
Welcome !

Midtsommernatt i Norge
Wir feiern am Freitag, 23. Juni ab 21.00 Uhr die Mitsommernacht auf den „Lofoten“ Norwegen.
Kommt vorbei und geniesst den längsten Tag des Jahres und die Mitternachtssonne.
Für die musikalische Unterhaltung sorgt Djane Loru und sendet auch auf ihrem Webradio http://stream.laut.fm/artdestiny.
Herzlich willkommen !

hg.cc-group.cc:8002:CCI Lofoten

@FerdFrederix suggests "If you were to become a bug, you could do so by wearing an avatar that would allow you to experience the world from a bug's perspective. Imagine visiting a garden where everything is to scale, and you could truly be the bug. You would be able to explore this miniature world, see the intricacies of the plants and flowers, and feel the wind blowing through the grass virtually. You could crawl through tunnels and crevices, and even fly to new heights. Being a bug could give you a whole new appreciation for the world around you and the creatures that inhabit it." this is precisely why I adore Fred. I found a really cute ladybug that he helped to animate and for the last two days, I have been carving out a bug paradise where everything is to scale if you were a bug. I have free avatars that Fred gave us, his Rat, Blue Bird, and I am giving the ladybug so that you can experience the garden too. Please make sure you wear the avatars while visiting the 3x3 Region Goliath Gardens I will be adding new avatars too, I found a great praying mantis!! Thank YOU, Ferd!!! three.hills.grid.outworldz.net:8002:Goliath Gardens

What an awesome memorial day! TJ & I had smoked chicken, boston butt, and pork ribs, with potato salad, slaw, macaroni salad, texas toast, bbq baked beans, sweet tea and pecan pie. Tonight we played the board game clue which i picked up at walmart, along with some uno cards. Then I got busy in the kitchen and made a tiramisu cake, vanilla & chocolate petit fours, and white chocolate chip cookies. I sent TJ to the store for butter pecan icecream and we had a rare sweets supper while playing Clue (tm). Just all in all a fun memorial day!

A newly discovered supernova can be watched as it develops in real-time, online and for free.

This particular galaxy and supernova can be difficult to view in the night sky without the right conditions or telescope, however. Luckily, the Virtual Telescope Project will livestream the cosmic explosion on its website and YouTube channel as it develops via its power robotic telescopes based in Rome, Italy. The online event will kick off at 6:30 p.m. EDT (2230 GMT) on Friday, May 26 2023. Note that this event is weather dependent and could be delayed or cancelled due to poor conditions. https://www.space.com/new-supernova-pinwheel-galaxy-livest...

What is a metaverse? I believe it is a virtual universe, where anything can happen! A place of magic and fun and joy. Just like the real universe the metaverse has many planets (grids) and thanks to the wonderful and amazing work of Sir Fred Beckheusen, the creator of dreamgrid, now anyone can have their own entire planet!
There are currently well over 7,000 planets (grids) in the metaverse! It is more populated than we realize. People from other countries with their own customs, languages, and beliefs have set up their own worlds, for others to explore.
I believe this trend will continue and people will spread out farther than ever before creating their own unique places and leaving an indelible mark of their existence upon the virtual cosmos! A complete decentralization of power and authority. No longer subject to the laws of the lindens and secondLife. No one place having authority over all the others. Everyone is free to explore thousands of worlds and make new friends.
With that said, you may also make a few enemies, but it doesn't matter, even if you get banned from an entire world, there are many thousands more out there... I have been exploring worlds of people I never knew existed, meeting new people, and making new friends.
The metaverse is a new frontier, a decentralized place created for us, and there is room enough in it for everyone, regardless of race, color, sex, sexual preferences, disabilities, and other separatist categories.
Thanks to Fred's brilliant work, setting up a grid in windows is as easy as clicking a button, and filling out a few questions. If you would like to set up your own dreamgrid, or grid on linux and need any help, I will help you. Just find me and send me an IM.

New! New! New!
C&C Worldwide Mall proudly brings you this weeks New release today 21.05.2023
The Sunroom
This beautiful selection is comprised of :
Lounger , Hanging benches all adult scripted and dining table and chairs with food giver & pg dining poses. Included also Lamp & Artwork.
Today we are doing a special music event with the release .
Hurry and collect these Items and hear DJ Crazy mix his Special Mashup and Dance sounds for you !
If you in a good mood join the Outdoor Party at the Mall Center Plaza - you are most welcome !
Don't forget to wear your Group Tag to shop .

Taxi:hg.osgrid.org:80:C&C Worldwide Mall

Neu! Neu! Neu!
C&C Worldwide Mall präsentiert euch heute,
am 21.05.2023, stolz die Neuveröffentlichung dieser Woche
Der Wintergarten
Diese schöne Auswahl besteht aus:
Liege, Hängebänke, alles für Erwachsene gescriptet, Esstisch und Stühle mit Essensgeber- und PG-Essposen.
Im Lieferumfang sind auch Lampe
und Kunstwerke enthalten.
Heute machen wir mit der Veröffentlichung ein besonderes Musikevent.
Kommt vorbei in unserer Mall und holt euch das Release ab und hört dabei, wie DJ Crazy seine speziellen Mashup- und Dance-Sounds für euch mixt! Vielleicht habt ihr Lust auch das Tanzbein zu schwingen dann kommt zum Mall Zentrum zur Outdoor Party.
Vergesst nicht, beim Einkaufen eueren Gruppentitel zu tragen.

Taxi:hg.osgrid.org:80:C&C Worldwide Mall

** FUNSIZE DINKIES WORLD RESORT **
Dinkies Friday happens every Friday from 8:00am - 10:00am on the Alternate Metaverse Grid
DINKIES ONLY REGION & HG Friendly at Location: alternatemetaverse.com:8002:Funsize Dinkie
Come on Over (DINKIES) and Hangout with us all on the Resort ..

Wedded Bliss Wedding Set-Floral Band with Three Stone Ring-This Floral Band is a silhouette of my Solid Floral Wedding Band-They are similar in design but the bands are different. This you will find in the Wedding Rings dept of the store.virtual-hg.com:8002:Monentes Jewelry

Peace & Love, Brothers, and Sisters. It is the dawning of the Age of Pangea!
It will be time to Keep on Trucking at this Groovy event with Zowie Maui and Wavey Gravey as we Boogie to the jams of the '60s. Psychedelics provided by Nyx Breen that Cool Head is righteous and bodacious. Don't be Bummed Out Man and miss this Shindig.
Coming Soon!

Les couleurs d'opensim changent ! Encore en beta-test, le nouveau viewer de Linden change son modèle colorimétrique. Nous ne savons pas si et quand ces modifications seront portées sur Firestorm. Opensimulator a d'ores-et-déjà intégré les fonctions llLinear2sRGB et llsRGB2Linear. Les testeurs intrépides d'Atlasgrid se sont jetés dessus et les ont décortiquées. Sur le nuancier de gauche, les anciennes couleurs. Sur celui de droite, les nouvelles.

The colors of opensim are changing ! Still in beta-test, the new Linden viewer will incorporate a new color model. We don't know when and if it will be ported to Firestorm. But Opensimulator has yet implemented the LSL functions llLinear2sRGB and llsRGB2Linear. Fearless Atlasgrid's testers has dived in. Left colorchecker : old colors. Right : new colors.

Mind Odyssey art exhibit is a spectacle of vibrant colors and animation. If you are free this weekend, please consider taking the time to visit this exhibit. Art is presented by these artists:

Cherry Manga
Amaranthim Talon
Shirl Tainted Angel
Nyx Breen

Bibiana has beautiful pieces about too!
virtual-hg.com:8002:Mind Odyssey

You can find my work at these locations:

Wolf Territories Grid:
Gloebit Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Main Store
Podex Store: grid.wolfterritories.org:8002:Lunaria Emporium - Podex

Many of my items are also available on the Kitely Market here: https://www.kitely.com/market?store=13957705

Carpe Noctem Mall II is open but it will be under construction as i will be working on new things continuously.
The things at this mall are new textured or new uploaded. You will find things for holidays (Valentine, St. Patrick, Easter,
x-mas, halloween...) fashion for female and male. Decoration products, furniture, Wall hangings and more.
You also find an Artgallery at this place. If you need a break you can use the cafe or seddle down at the farm beside the
market.

Please be patient as im still working on this place to offer you new things in future. I will add them as soon as i have
products ready so check back often.

If you are a creator without own place contact me and you may have a shop for your things at my mall for free.

I wish you a nice day with shopping and walking around. Enjoy your stay if you need something just write i will answer as soon as possible.

hop://alternatemetaverse.com:8002/Carpe Noctem 2/285/336/3000

Ok I have a question for the users who read these posts. This region is clothing for Athena rigged clothing and I was wondering how many of you would be interested in my also releasing the same designs for the Legacy body?? If there is enough intrest for the legacy outfits I will start getting the textures etc ready and do some legacy releases as well as the ongoing Athena releases.

Nautilus Cape Cod has reopened its Fish House Restaurant! Have a romantic Dinner or grab a lunch after sailing and exploring the Nautilus Ocean waters. The Restaurant is across from the Marina that has many free boats that work effortlessly on the Nautilus waters. The Restaurant has charming views of Cape Cod which has long term residents. There are free cottages to call home, the last one just became available and sits on its own private Island. ENJOY!


https://opensimworld.com/hop/88735
hg.osgrid.org:80:Cape Cod

From walter.bankovitch@stanfordalumni.org Tue Aug 13 16:10:39 2002
Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 19:40:46 -0000
From: Walter Bankovitch
To:
Subject: Management Course
Status: RO

Lesson One:
A crow was sitting on a tree, doing nothing all day. A small rabbit
saw the crow & asked him, "Can I also sit like you & do nothing all day
long?" The crow answered: "Sure, why not." So, the rabbit sat on
the ground below the crow, and rested. All of a sudden, a fox appeared,
jumped on the rabbit and ate it.

Management Lesson?
To be sitting and doing nothing, you must be sitting very, very high
up.

Lesson Two:
A turkey was chatting with a bull. "I would love to be able to get to
the top of that tree," sighed the turkey, "but I haven't got the
energy." "Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?" replied
the bull. "They're packed with nutrients." The turkey pecked at a lump of
dung, found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest
branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he
reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, he was
proudly perched at the top of the tree. Soon he was promptly spotted by
a farmer, who shot the turkey out of the tree.

Management Lesson?
Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.

Lesson Three:
A little bird was flying south for the winter. It was so cold the bird
froze and fell to the ground in a large field. While it was lying
there, a cow came by and dropped some dung on it. As the frozen bird lay
there in the pile of cow dung, it began to realize how warm it was.
The dung was actually thawing him out! He lay there all warm and
happy, and soon began to sing for joy. A passing cat heard the bird singing
and came to investigate. Following the
sound, the cat discovered the bird under the pile of cow dung
and promptly dug him out and ate him.

Management Lesson?
1) Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy.
2) Not everyone who gets you out of shit is your friend.
3) And when you're in deep shit, it's best to keep your mouth shut!

Here endeth your management course.


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Die HG-Safari kommt
Region: Dorenas World
Event begins: in 2 hours : 2023-02-08 11:00 SLT
Added by: Dorena Verne✦
Details:

Am Mittwoch den 8.2. erwarten wir um 21:00 Uhr den "Überfall" der HG-Safari.
Wir treffen uns deshalb ab 20:00 Uhr zu einer kleinen Party im Dorena Park.

Taxi: http://Dorenas-World.de:8002:Dorenas World
(Ihr landet im DW-Center - der Fussweg in den Dorena-Park ist dann gekennzeichnet ...)

Welcome to Bubble Land 3D Art experience!
Bubble Land 3D Artscape is created by Nyx Breen, with 40 years of real-life photography and 17 years of virtual, and 6 years of gaming world content creation.

Bubble Land "Veris Dream" is a joint effort between Veritas McMaster and Nyx Breen to produce an immersive interactive art experience.

This is the last creation that Veri and Nyx worked on.
Veri passed on 12/23/2022; her love of virtual worlds and desire for all to be included and participate in the process was her vision in real and virtual lives.
Please celebrate the vision and dream of this remarkable individual on 1/28/2023 @ 11SLT, Pangea Grid.
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/Immersive%202/953/130/323

Bubble Land is a single art creation spread across a 4x4 VAR that is a thousand meters tall. (16 regular SL sims).
You can explore Bubble Land in several ways, a visit to the skybox to look and be amazed. Use the teleporter system to a dozen key locations. Walk and fly through the piece and discover a different look and experience with each turn of your avatar.


Los Suenos de la Muertos The Dreams of the Dead is a cocreation of Veritas McMaster and Nyx Breen that was presented at the OSCC OpenSimulator Community Conference this past 12/10-11, 2022. The art piece and the real-life experience were explored and explained.

Los Suenos de la Muertos can be experienced at,
hop://pangeagrid.de:8002/Immersive/507/514/21

Looking forward to meeting you and sharing the experience Veri loved.

Nyx Breen

TO THOSE GRIDS THAT BLOCK US...

There are 7 of us, me who made the grid for the others, and 6 students, who rotate. We don't even change our avatar, we still have the same clothes, skin...

We like to go to the list of new regions to see what people have made new. If you don't want us to go, why advertise them on this site?

If you're afraid we'll rip you off, we dare you to find something on our grid that's not for sale. Even, when there is some special work, we post it and next to it we put a link to your grid (as in the case of Cherry Manga, Flora, Lani...).

We are not your competition in anything, we don't rent regions, we are not interested in users (although they are welcome if they prefer to be here).
As we said in another post, if someone wants something of what we do, ask us, we almost always forget to put it in copy or for sale).

In fact, the Welcome region, we have made it with links to this site and to places that we believe that anyone who comes to Opensim should know, because of their work.

On the other hand, we are disappointed with the people... it is sad, when they pass by you and even if you say hello, you do not receive the slightest sign of friendship. This is what hurts us the most (in our homes we are always forced since we were kids to say "hello" when you arrive and "goodbye" when you leave), indifference is punished with a "scolding".

We are so few and this is the relationship we are looking for... not even a "hello"... but a "don't come closer, I won't let you".

So, after this rambling, I leave you with the image of the endangered species of freshwater fish, which I'm sure we have stolen from Kittely or some similar site :))))

Long live freedom and death to the Troll!!!

Der Bau der Wikinger geht weiter, der kalte Norden und der Winter kommen immer näher.
hg.cc-group.cc:8002:CCI Lofoten
The construction of the Vikings continues, the cold north and winter are getting closer.

This sweet lady was Jackie, Softwhisper Littlewing who was a DJ I got to know in Second Life and she was amazing and so much fun. We lost Jackie in 2020 to cancer and she will be forever missed and loved. I designed this memorial to her as a DJ she so loved music and dance.

Yay, here I am at Paris in AMV! Took me a bit of time last night to settle on a basic look. I'm sporting the Athena body with the Lelutka Erin head, same as my OSgrid avi, but lighter skin. I've also tried to add a bit more thickness to her compared to the other one.

I'd love to age myself a bit more here. That's not a typo! Is there a good store in Open Sim that has aged body skins? I have tried out the aged face skins from the BoM pack and they do work well, but I could use some body freckles and veins for a more convincing aged look. Not too old, let's say 45-55, basically my age group IRL.

TIA :)

We are Back after a maintenance!
Our Grid was set up new, so your old Landmarks will no longer work!!!
Come over and Grab new ones and take a look at the Skymall
and explore our other Regions.
Have fun!

It has come to my attention that many of the sound players were broken in dragonfyre due to an opensimulator version upgrade. As a result I have re-made the sound players for dragonfyre and put them in a box at wizardry region. This includes birds, ocean, waterfall, doves cooing, crickets, and more. Simply put these phantom boxes out, and make them transparent. They will play the sounds they are labeled with.

In light of all the complaining about "copybotting" we have decided to give a "Builder's School" a shot, but this is strictly for beginners. If you are a seasoned builder it's not for you, however, if you'd like to share tips and building ideas to help other's become awesome builders it would be most welcome. If we get enough interest, we will set out a region and beacon and set up a day of the week when we can help teach building all manner of things from homes to hats and more. If you are interested in learning to build and give your grid original and unique content, these classes may just be for you. We will be teaching not only prim building, but how to turn that into mesh and also terraforming and landscaping as well as texture aligning and including many tips that make building in Open Sim a really "FUN" experience. If you would like to take these classes please contact me, Lavia Lavine, here in the OSW page via private message and I'll forward the information to you. -- Much Love, Lavia