This is the twenty-eighth in a series of mini-interviews with the residents of Second Life. For the most part, I'll try to leave the responses unedited, except where editing will grant greater clarity.

Salvador Dalgiesh is THE coolest elephant I know, and one of the coolest avatar's I've seen. His color scheme responds to outside input! If you see him around, start saying colors to him and watch the fun! I'm dying to make an 'Elephant in the room' joke here, but ehnh, it'd be beside the point.

Your SL name: Salvador Dalgleish

How did you first come to SL?: I was bored with the MMOs I had been playing for the past 5 years or so ... DAoC, WoW, CoH/CoV. I got tired of their repetitive nature and was looking for something new. I found SL by searching on "virtual worlds".

How did you choose your name?: The description I read said SL was a very surreal place, and I've always been a fan of Salvador Dali. I chose the name (and made my first AV) as an homage to him. I suppose my elephant AV is an homage to him too, in a way.

What's your favorite thing about SL?: The only limits are my own creativity. There is no treadmill, no preset goal, so there are no "powergamers" ... folks are free to socialize and invent at will.

What do you like least about SL?: Griefers. But the new landowner controls have largely limited their abuses, so I guess I'll have to find something new to dislike.

Favorite hangout/store?: The Shelter

Name one new feature you'd like to see added to SL: A more powerful scripting language.

Shout outs: Travis Lambert, Onionpencil Musashi, Jacek Antonelli, Reina Quine, and the whole Shelter crew!

This is the twenty-third in a series of mini-interviews with the residents of Second Life. For the most part, I'll try to leave the responses unedited, except where editing will grant greater clarity.

Shockwave Plasma, or Shocky, as I like to call her, is someone with whom I don't get to speak more often, and that's a shame. I've always found her to be intelligent, witty, insightful, and whimsical, frequently all within the space of 3 minutes. I don't know how she was able to slip the Resident Snapshot noose for so long, but I finally nabbed her!

How did you first come to SL?: I was looking for some sort of on-line social, or gaming group, and tried to find one that was more than just blasting people and space ships. The ones I found were rather bland, or rather stifled, until I came across Second Life. It reminded me of Snow Crash, I must have read that in 2000.

How did you choose your name?: I was trying to decide between Plasma and Pixel, and as Plasma is the fourth state of matter, and as we are neither gas, liquid, or solid,
then a Plasma I must be. One of the first Cyberpunk novels was "The Shockwave Rider" by John Brunner, so that was suitable for for my first name in my first
cyber world. Now I find a Shockwave Plasma is also a spectroscope.

What's your favorite thing about SL?: The people and the imagination they display. Touring the Sandboxes can be more like walking in an interactive art gallery, than walking through a building yard. Meeting people from all over the world is my cure for insomnia. Sometimes I would be awake until 2am, but logging in to SL seems to get rid of the thoughts that kept me awake.

What do you like least about SL?: Being in the UK, and most of the parties, weddings, shows are mainly for a USA audience, where most of my friends reside. (That's life). No boolean searches in FIND/Search. Griefers. LL not banning Mime avatars.

Favorite hangout/store?: Shelter/ Shelter in Exile. I don't have a favorite shop, but I like to crash test Cubey Terra's planes.

Name one new feature you'd like to see added to SL: To have the servers spaced around the globe.

Shout outs: Hi Tateru, Mera, Sumar, Pip, Ordinal, Dani, Erbo, Aldo, Misty, and Oni (where ever you are!)

This is the tenth in a series of mini-interviews with the residents of Second Life. For the most part, I'll try to leave the responses unedited, except where editing will grant greater clarity.

O Dani, My Dani, giver of belly rubs! Also known as Empress Caesarus and Trophy Wife, she came to us from Elsewhere, and very quickly set herself up in-world. She now owns three clubs and is getting married to a great guy (Snapshot to come). What else can I say? Get to know her!

Your SL name: Danielle Ferguson

How did you first come to SL?: I did an MSN Search for avatar chat sites and SL was, like, fourth on the list. The first three sites were for dating which was just not my thing. I read the information for SL and decided to do the free trial and have been ever since.

How did you choose your name?: Well my name starts with D in RL and I have always liked the name Danielle. Ferguson just seemed to fit with it and they are both easy to remember.

What's your favorite thing about SL?: The ability to be able to build anything. There is no limit to the imagination. If you can dream it, you can probably build it.

What do you like least about SL?: Griefers.

Favorite hangout/store?: Oh Jeesh, let's see: The Shelter, Svarga (thank you Akela), The Lost Gardens of Apollo, and New Roma (my home).

Name one new feature you'd like to see added to SL: Some sort of indicator for the IMs to let you know the other person is typing.

Shout outs: Erbo Evans, Chris Ellsworth, Valorna Edgeworth, Onionpencil Musashi, Keeva Hayek and Jeesh the list goes on and on. So I will say everyone I know. =)