Modern Man Rant
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George Carlin’s spectacular rant I’m a Modern Man. Wherein I attempt to do
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10 months ago
Saturday, February 28, 2009
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Riamh Nar Dhruid O Spairn Iann
Never Retreat from the Clash of Spears
A Glossary of Hibernia for the Casual Reader
About O'Toole
- Hotspur O'Toole
- The Polymath Eyrie, Steelhead Port Harbor
- An Irish would-be gentleman of indeterminate age, of a somewhat miltary bearing (although.. whether it comes from Sandhurst or a former 'marriage to Brown Bess', nobody really knows.. the details remain elusive). What is known or alluded to is a youth spent in a monastery, apparently packed away by a furious relative. It is clear that he visited China and Africa at some point in the dim past. His many cousins have been sighted all over Second Life, so another source of corroboration is out there. He seems to love Surrealistic imagery, judging from his decor, and he is given to babbling odd bits of knowledge from time to time, perhaps revealing that some of his time amongst the Dominicans was not for nought. Now firmly ensconced upon the crag that is called POLYMATH EYRIE, in Port Harbor, Steelhead, Second Life-- a cold drafty, leaky cottage that is, nonetheless, his own. O'Toole recently changed appearance drastically, changing more in line with his RL "other person". Older stories that have not finished will still feature the blonde, bearded version derived from the freebie shape and skin he found in Yadni's Junkyard.
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"The Land Went up in Fire and Curdled Smoke" - The Advance of General Ying-Tse and the Fusang Field Force, and Ambush Shea lay prone in the Kunai grass, as still as he could be, with the burlap wrapped ...2 years ago
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Things Nautical
- (SL) Imperial Navy of Caledon pages
- (SL) subpage - Flags of the Metaverse Navies
- ACW Naval War
- Battle of the Ironclads
- Battleships & Cruisers UK
- Dewey and Other Commanders, by Ellis
- Dreadnought Cruisers Blog
- HMS Surprise: A Frigate and Brig Simulator for Windows
- Ironclads and Blockad Runners
- MFA Boston's Collection of Yalu Woodblocks
- My Victorian Navy blog (excellent)
- Navies in Transition
- Plymouth's RN Heritage site
- Pre-Dreadnought Gallery of Ships
- Pre-Dreadnought Preservation Society
- Queen VIctoria's Navy
- Semenov Essays: Yellow Sea & Tsushima
- The Battle of Manila Bay by Dewey
- The Dark Ages of Victorian Royal Navy (wiki)
- The Influence of Seapower Upon History
- The Press Gang Afloat and Ashore
- The RN's Victorian Naval History Page
- The Russian Fleet Panoramic Picture
- Ting Yuen & Chen Yuen
- TR's Great White Fleet
- U.S. Naval Uniforms over the Years
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- U.S. Pre-Dreadnought fleet
Second Life Journals of Note
- ** Commodore's Office at MeetSee
- ** Contested Waters on the Blake Sea
- ** Fleet of Wrath Exiles Aether HQ
- ** MOSTLY CALEDON BlogList **
- ** Scéal an ghamhna bhuí (Hibernia Story Journal)
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- *** HIBERNIA AUDIO/VIDEO ***
- Amplebeak Tinlegs (Knowledge of the Gnomes)
- Antiquity Gazette
- Atomic Raygun (Vivian Oblivian)
- Avastar, The
- Bella Lubezki's journal "Her Dark Materials"
- Burning Life
- C. Mariner's Podcasting Feed
- Caledon Underground
- Cato Quan, the Cute Kitty
- Charity Dogsbody Booke of Sensible Advice
- Chav Paderborn et.al.
- DanCoyote Antonelli
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- Dr. Darien Mason's Journal
- English Observer, The (Elrik Merlin)
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- Frequency's Oscillations
- Gabrielle Riel Blog
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- HeadBurro Antfarm
- Journal of Ordinal Malaprop
- Kamilah Hauptmann's Journal
- La Bicyclette (V. Tombola)
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- Lady Adventuress (Christine M)
- Library Militant (Drinkwater)
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- McCullough and Co. naval builders
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- Meet the Petermans (Nabilia Nadir)
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- Poid Mahovlich's blog
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- Talia Tokugawa's blog
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Other Aethernet Resources
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- HT Draw Steampunk machines
- Irregular Webcomic
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- Journal of Manly Arts (Western Martial Arts)
- Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet
- LEGO (tm) Steampunk
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- Luxuria Music (Streaming Eclectica)
- Married to the Sea
- Matin Greenway's Steampunk 3D Models
- Modern Mechanix
- Monkey Fluids (web comic)
- Moustaches of the 19th Century
- My Avatars United profile
- My Myrl Profile
- New Adventures of Queen Victoria (web comic)
- Obligatory Girl Genius Link
- Orin's Gallery of ACW Ironclad Ships
- Ottens Steam
- Pax Limpopo
- Peregrine Salon (converts animated gifs to animated textures in SL)
- Podcasting is Full of Crap
- Pulp and Adventure Heroes of the Pre-War Years
- Retro City Drive In!
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- Retrostacja (Polish)
- Rokuro and Other Sculpty Tools
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- Sepiachord
- Serial Robots
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- Seth's Blog (highly recommended)
- Steam Trek
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- Steampunk Fiction Clearing House
- Steampunk Forum
- SteamPunk Magazine
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- The Black Dossier
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- This Blog is Full of Crap
- Today in Alternative History
- Uchronia
- Victorian Cinema: A Who's Who
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- War of the (virtual) Worlds (Ning)
- Warren Ellis page
- Welcome to Steampunk
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- Worlds in Motion
Storytelling Resources Online
- 1001 Nights comprehensive translations
- Aesop's Fables on Gutenberg
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- American Folklife Center at LOC
- AppLit: Applahacian Folktales
- Collections by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg)
- Dale Jarvis (G. Sapwood)
- Dame Kghia (SL Storytelling and Library Events)
- Encyclopaedia Mythica
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- eOT (center for Oral Traditions)
- Fairy and Folk Tale Webring
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- Folk Streams
- Folk Texts (U. Pitt)
- Folklore, Myth and Legend
- Grimm's Fairy Tales (Gutenberg)
- Hans Christian Anderson (wikipage, many languages)
- Ireland In SL
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- Myth*ing Links
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- Northern European Studies Texts
- Stories from Panchatantra
- Storytelling in the West of Ireleand (SL)
- Storytelling... tales to tell
- Victorian Ghost Stories
SL Inworld Gaming
Victorian Fonts and Graphic Art
Utilities
Who's been here?
From Where?
Hibernian Fellow Travellers
Second Life Time
The Media Files
- 30+ Awesome Sites for Streaming Media
- Absolute Sound Effects Archive (free)
- Adobe Photoshop tutorials (textures)
- Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials (machinima)
- Adobe Premiere Pro Tutorials 2 (machinima)
- America Free TV (can be streamed in SL)
- Basic and Advanced Machinima in SL
- Blender Tutorials - Sculptie Objects
- Blip TV
- Converting Videos for SL (Shiny Life)
- Converting YouTube to play in SL (Torley, old)
- Creating Animations in SL (link list)
- Cyloop (streaming audio) $$
- Free Drum Loop SFX
- Free Video Format Convertor (Fr)
- GIMP tutorials (textures)
- HELP: streaming audio (SL Wiki page)
- Host list for steaming audio (SL Universe)
- HT Download Youtube Videos as MP4s
- HT Play live music in SL part 1 of 2
- HT Play live music in SL part 2 of 2
- HT Play Youtube vids DIRECTLY into SL via m.youtube (Torley)
- HT Show Video in SL (SL Wiki, scripting perspective)
- HT stream audio (general article on Virtually Time)
- HT stream audio if you have a Mac (Mac Guy)
- HT stream audio using MediaMaster (Hibernia)
- HT stream audio using Winamp & Shoutcast (C. Hambly)
- HT Texturize with Multiple images
- HT use Magnatune
- HT Use Video in SL (Shiny Life)
- http://www.mediamaster.com
- Internet Video Mag list of Web Video Sites
- Machinima (Second Life Wiki)
- Media College Free SFX
- MediaMaster.com (Streaming Audio, now closed)
- NICEcast DJ software from Rogue Amoeba
- NICEcast Manual (PDF)
- Onstream Media (host) $$
- Origin Digital (host, video) $$
- PACdv sound FX (free)
- Pandora (streaming audio)
- Royalty Free Music
- SAM DJ software from Spacial Audio
- Second Life Wiki on streaming video
- Shoutcast Radio (streaming audio, works w/. WinAmp)
- SLGuide (video on demand for SL)
- Sony Vegas Tutorial collection (machinima)
- Sound Snap Free SFX
- Spatial Audio (SAM DJ) Wiki Page
- Stream URLs (K. Halpern list)
- Streaming audio and the RIAA (Hibernia)
- The Basics of Being a Live DJ in Second Life
- Vixy: Online Video Convertor service
- WinAmp Media Player (free, 10USD Pro)
- WinAmp Media Player (free, 10USD Pro)
- Windlight with Style (photography primer)
Files Support
Twitter feed for HotspurOT
Aether Chrononauts
The Second Life SECRET LIBRARY
A few of my fellow stalwarts and I have created a virtual book discussion group of sorts, utilizing one the nicer recent social networking tools on the Aethernet, GOODREADS. The group is THE SECOND LIFE SECRET LIBRARY, which is open to any Second Life citizens that applies with good manners and a sense of friendship and collaboration. Goodreads allows one to maintain an online collection of books, hold discussions, read and trade reviews, and generally learn about the printed word. I will occasionally publish a review of a particularly good book or two off of Goodreads as "The Printed Word" entries in this journal.
Currently Reading:
(We're deciding what to read next)
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Independent State of Caledon (former resident, Tamranoach, Middlesea, Cape Wrath)
Commodore, The Fleet of Wrath Exiles
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Battles of the Fleet and Air Arm:
Black Maria versus the Sky Pirates
Invasion of Artificial Island 2
Invasion of Artificial Island 1
Flight of the Steam Doughnut
Ironclad Battles at Antiquity
Ship to Ship Melee Battle
Jolly Jack Tars at Antiquity
Ironclad Battle!
Longship Battle
Jack Tars and Commodores
Fleet Air Arm Gunnery Exercise 2
Fleet Air Arm Gunnery Exercise 1
Lt. Colonel, First Isle of Sky Lancers (Executive Officer)
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In Closing, a little Random Surrealism:
2 comments:
YOU?? I've been knocked clear off the board!
I guess this is what I get for being away from SL for a couple of nights.
Hrumph!!
:)
Well, we all know why some persons (who shall remain nameless) seem to have such grand beginner's luck...
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