I’ve moved, but you’d never know to look at the place. My old “home” on Hotgates has undergone a change in ownership at Stanford, passing to the care of the Stanford Libraries as an archival site along with NEWare, the adjacent project space island that was the Humanities Lab’s initial foray into Second Life. Hotgates is still open, and looks the same as it did before, but with its new role as project memory it no longer serves my needs for project development, experimentation, and general goofing off.
So now I have Hotspot! Initially, it’s pretty much a duplicate of Hotgates, although I expect the two islands will diverge rather quickly. But the galleries for the Revolutionary Tides and Crowds projects, the Asian-American Art exhibit, the Life Squared pavilion referencng the Dante Hotel and Roberta Breitmore projects, all will remain as long as they’re of interest.
Here are a couple snapshots of Hotspot, Day One:

A “Type One” island freshly transformed with Hotgates’ RAW terrain file.

Sundeck, Buddha garden, and beach pavilion in place: first things first!

So far, so good. Y’all come!