FULL ARCHIVE, 2004

Arranged according to category:

SEX, POLITICS, AND RELIGION
... and how they play out in Second Life.

IN MEMORIAM
In honor of many things, and to many people, offered up in plaques and installations and full-fledged community events...

GAMING THE SYSTEM
The year in in-world game development...

IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
Notes on everyday goings-on happening around the continent that usually feels more like a small town. (A small town almost entirely inhabited by mad scientists, utopians, artists, schemers, and hordes of non-stop partiers, that is.)

SPEAKING OUT
Notes and footnotes for various public/media appearances in 2004...

JUST LIKE THE MOVIES
Machinima in SL...

ARTISANS AND ENTREPENEURS
Creators of all kinds...

THREE WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL
Stories of in-world marriage ceremonies, sometimes with a real world relationship component, and a story of an in-world memorial service of a resident who passed away in the real world, as documented in NWN for 2004...

A LEVER TO MOVE THE CIVIC-MINDED
Second Life as an educational tool, as a therapeutic and research medium, and as a medium for raising funds for various non-profit causes, as featured in New World Notes for 2004...

SUPPORTING THE TROOPS
The wars abroad come to SL...

MONEY CHANGES EVERYTHING
In-world economics.

THE ENGINES OF CREATION
In-world creativity as art, as catharsis, as community event, as community-building experience, as trial run for bigger things, as entertaining end in itself, for 2004...

PERSONALITY GOES A LONG WAY
Profiles of Second Life residents, in all their dreamy, strange, romantic, inventive, diverse uniqueness, for 2004...

DEEP THOUGHTS
Ruminations, theoretical analyses, and deep meta speculations on the world of Second Life and its inner meaning, anno domini 2004...

STUNTMAN
... in which the author sets his Journalist's Hat at a cock-eyed angle, so that he can become Part of the Story, joining in on assorted in-world craziness, even at times to the point of unleashing the infamous Hunter S. Thompson avatar.