The Waterfall Café

 

The Newser has covered many winter places in recent weeks.  For those looking for something different, Newser reporter Netera Landar found a location very interesting and unique in all seasons: The Waterfall Cafe. From Katie Luckstone, with it's picturesque underwater caverns, huge aquariums with swimming fish, chairs made to resemble sea shells, and more, it's very much worth a visit. 

 

Read Netera's article in Places.  

Cartoon of The Day: Something Fishy

 

 

 Taken at the Fantasy Faire. Among the avatars I saw was this fish one running around. That just begged for a pun.

 

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Something Fishy

 

Taken at Livewire, this otterboy walked in with a fish in his mouth. He was saying he was swimming with his mouth open. Guess he "otter" not have done that.

By Bixyl Shuftan

 

Cartoon of the Day: Fishing Chums

Taken at Club Amaranth. Zorro loves to fish, but looks like this time, he ended up the bait.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Cartoon of the Day

Picture from Jessicabelle Dayafter for "Shark Week," "The poor thing saw ... he was biting a skunk. ... and the poor thing froze in place and died like that. Anyone have a crowbar?"

By Bixyl Shuftan

Games in Second Life: Linden Realms and 7Seas

Recently Linden Lab opened a "Gaming Island" to demonstrate how "skill games" are played. Gemma Cleanslate does some gaming in Second Life, but she had little interest in the kind the new Linden area highlights. Her two favorites are Linden Realms and a longtime fishing game in Second Life: 7Seas. She decided to write about them to describe what their attraction is.

Read Gemma's article in Design.

SL Video: "Wunnerful Christmas with Otters"

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Remember the fish-slapping otters by Abanimations filmed earlier this month? Well, theyrrre baaaack! Bay Sweetwater did an "otterly" fun Christmas video with them. It starts off cutsie, and then goes back into more slap-happy fun, that not even Spider-Man's nemesis the "Green Goblin" can escape.

"Here's what happens when a Second Life creator gives away an otter avatar for Christmas. So when your relatives bug you over the holidays about what you do in Second Life, you just shrug and say, 'Oh, I dunno. Stuff like this.'"

"Christmastime Is Wunnerful" by Jonathan Coulton
"Joy to the World" performed by Three Dog Night, composed by Hoyt Axton
Otter avatars by Abramelin Wolfe of Abranimations

SL Video: "Christmas with Fighting Otters at Abranimations "

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By Saffia Widdershins, " Abranimations is one of the Second Life stores with an Advent calendar this year - and owner Abramelin Wolfe is giving away some great gifts - including these cute otter avatars, complete with animations and wet fish to fight with! So when I went over today to collect my gift and found a grand otter fish slapping fight in progress - well, I couldn't resist filming it!"

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at Burn2, the art and music festival was known for its "mutant" vehicles for going around. Some were stranger than others.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Pictures of the Fall Fishing Festival

Last weekend was the twice a year fishing festival by the makers of the popular 7Seas fishing game. The event was fairly straightforward, fish, fish, and fish some more. But there was no shortage of builds. So Gemma, along with Bixyl Shuftan, took a number of pictures.

See Gemma's pictures in Events.

Fall Fishing Festival

Good news for fans of 7Seas and fishing in general. The Fall Fishing Festival is coming. It promises to be a great weekend with plenty of special custom fish to catch, and interesting builds to explore around and see, as well as fish on. Fishing fan Gemma Cleanslate had a few things to say about the upcoming event.

Read Gemma's article in Events.

Cartoon of the Day

By Bixyl Shuftan

Fishiversary

Gemma Cleanslate is an avid fisher, taking part in numerous 7Seas fishing games. So hearing about their biannual event "Fishiversary," she was sure to drop by. She took a number of pictures of the wild and wacky goings on there as the fishers went after the "feesh."

See Gemma's pictures in Events.

Cartoon of the Day

Taken at the "Sharknado" party at Steelhead earlier this month.

By Bixyl Shuftan

Steelhead's "Sharknado" Party

Have you heard of the movie "Sharknado?" Even if you didn't, the party last Friday at the Steelhead community was lots of fishy fun. At the harbor of Steelhead Shanghai, the residents gathered to laugh in the face of danger in the form of waterspouts, electric charges, and sharks, sharks, and more sharks. To add to the craziness, there were sharks among the partiers. So how did Steelhead fare from their own "Sharknado?" Did the residents end up with shark sushi, or did they end up on the menu?

Read about it in Events.

Breezes Thoughts: "Twas an Old Lady ..." Part 3

Breezes Babii is back with the third part of her story about a lady who ventures from home to find more than she bargained for, this time coming across some balloons.

Read the next "Breezes Thoughts" in Extra.

Breezes Thoughts: "Twas an Old Lady ..." Part 2

Breezes Babii is back with the next part of her story about a lady who ventures from home to find more than she bargained for.

Read the next "Breezes Thoughts" in Extra.

Cartoon of the Day

Picture taken at the "Happy Vixen" by Jasmine Dawn Shuftan, with help from Cynthia Farshore and Shockwave Yareach

By Bixyl Shuftan

Fall Fishing Festival Screenshots

This weekend, Gemma spent some time at the 7Seas' Fall Fishing Festival.  Having earlier sent a story to tell about it just as it was starting, she sent a number of pictures as the weekend went on. 

Read more in Events.

7Seas Fall Fishing Festival

For the players of the popular 7Seas fishing game, the twice a year event all about rods and reels is on it's way: the 7Seas Fall Fishing Festival. Sit down in one of the many fishing shacks, or take a boat out. Or you can head out to the party island. The event's for a good cause too. Some special items will be auctioned off for a childrens' charity.

Read more in Events.