This is the twenty-seventh 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.

Turing Franklin picked a great name for SL, with its nod toward artificial intelligence. I'll forever remember him as the first person to ever speak to me in binary!

Your SL name: Turing Franklin

How did you first come to SL?: Invited by NFM Darkholme

How did you choose your name?: Alan Turing is one of my heroes. Franklin was the most "scientific" last name available at the time.

What's your favorite thing about SL?: Just wandering and meeting folk. Trains rule!

What do you like least about SL?: How women are always coming on to me and wanting to "cyber" me. Hey ladies, I'm not just a piece of cybermeat, I have feelings too.

Favorite hangout/store?: I like the Shelters --> Shelter Classic and the Shelter in Exile. Playing trivia is fun.

Name one new feature you'd like to see added to SL: Actually, if SL could just be a bit more stable that would be awesome. Oh, and get ALL the search functions working again.

Shout outs: Cocoanut Koala - the most genuine person I've met in SL! & Jesse Prior - dude, go buy a Ruby book, it'll be much faster!

This is the twenty-fourth 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.

Shaunny, along with AllieKat Stovall, is one of the wolves of the Shelter, now the Shelter in Exile (long story). She doesn't look particularly fuzzy here, but believe you me, she can bring the heat when provoked!

Your SL name: Shaunny Stovall

How did you first come to SL?: I first came to SL from watching my sister AllieKat play and was hooked :)

How did you choose your name?: Well, Shaunny is my real life nickname so, it stuck!

What's your favorite thing about SL?: Getting to know people from around the world and meeting new friends daily.

What do you like least about SL?: Honestly, the freaking updates and bad lag.

Favorite hangout/store?: Has to be the Shelter, baby! And the Gin Rummy!

Name one new feature you'd like to see added to SL: Well, let's see ... the freaking database needs to be bigger!

Shout outs: HEY ALL YOU OUT THERE, STOP BY THE GIN RUMMY AND SEE ERBO & THE GANG!

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!)