Case students invited to Virtual Challenge

Leave your real life behind and join us for a week of virtual gaming on Case’s Second Life campus. Try your luck or show off your skills. . . the more points you win, the more entries you get in the raffle. Grand prize is a $250 gift certificate for Amazon.com!

How it works: You receive 100 tokens each day when you log in to play your choice of a variety of games of skill and chance. For each point won, you get 1 chance for the raffle. Three names will be drawn to win Amazon.com gift cards.

Who: Case undergraduate, graduate and professional students

Begins: Friday September 5 at noon
Ends: Friday September 12, with the raffle at 4pm

Where: ClevelandPlus (206, 61, 26)

What’s in it for you: Amazon gift certificates worth $250 for 1st pick, $150 for 2nd pick, $100 for 3rd pick

New to Second Life?
No problem! Membership is free at http://www.secondlife.com/. See these Basic Instructions on getting started in SL. Be sure to leave yourself enough time to personalize your avatar and learn how to move around.

Contact: Amy Marino, adm14@case.edu

Creating Skins

Tired with the plain skin editor Second Life lets you modify as default? Then make your own skins as textures and slap 'em on your avatar. It's easy and pretty fun. Through some experimentation, this reptile skin was made in photoshop using a free face template found on the Second Life website. You can also change the design of your eyes entirely. The changes don't just stop at the face either; you can modify the skin of your avatar's entire body!

Follow the link, http://secondlife.com/community/templates.php and download free templates to be used in photoshop.

CCPL's sci-fi display is out of this world!

The Cuyahoga County Public Library is running a display of books on its sci-fi summer reading list. See the likes of Dune, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and XTL: Extraterrestrial Life and How to Find It built out in interactive displays with videos, links to sims and web sites, and freebies. You can visit the land of Arrakis, help UC Berkeley search for extraterrestrial life, take home a light saber of your very own - and of course - put your favorite on hold for pick-up at your nearest CCPL branch!

Check it out at ClevelandPlusII (116, 179, 23).