Location: “The Finest Literature That a Factory Can Produce,“ Kula 2 Sim

No Eno. but then a “build” this clever and complex was worth the visit.  The group charter for the land includes some well know SL residents, including Hamlet Au (avatar for blogger Wagner James Au) and Mia Wombat, whose impressive speech about open-source programming and content inspired me when I ran across it in a nearby public meeting place.  I am not on the banned list.  Neither (so far) is Cecil Hirvi.

In the factory, a metallic receptionist paints her nails while a copy of Cosmorobo sits at her side.  In the plant, large comic-strip robots make words on vast assembly lines, while cigar-chomping robot supervisors look on and, in cubicles nearby, office-clone bots slave away while cyber-children’s robot drawings are tacked to the partition walls.

Rarely has a place in SL made me laugh out loud just for its creativity, not to mention its mocking of creative work. The place has no commercial purpose I can discern other than to show off the makers’ skills with Linux and make a visitor feel transported by the creation.

That aspect of my Eno-Quest is going to take up a few more posts here. I’ve been reading, in Au’s “New World Notes,” about Linden Lab facing a slight drop in activity in-world and a few large companies re-considering the scale of their investment in SL.  Meanwhile, virtual worlds such as Kaneva or There.com, to name but a few, are attracting these same real-life firms. To be continued.

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