Current mood:	annoyed
Current music:	Forever Young - Rod Stewart

Welcome to Linden Lab M
Second Life is celebrating it's fifth birthday on June 23 (SL5B). As usual the residents were planning it. Then Linden Lab stepped in.

You guessed it, they then did something monumentally stupid.

The other day they made an announcement: kid avatars would not be allowed to contribute to the festivities. Applications from kid groups would not be accepted. Who cares that the kid exhibits were the most popular ones in previous years and that Linden Lab's official policy is to support kids unless they do something wrong.

Oops. The blogosphere literally exploded with discussions. A friend of mine is trying to maintain a list of some of them in her post and there is a JIRA that everyone should vote on here.

Us kids are not sitting still though. We did a lot of work yesterday (I was only there for 13 hours of it) to kick things off for KIDS5B. We have the land. We have the resources. We have a plan. We have designers/builders in Second Life dropping SL5B like a brick and throwing their energies into KIDS5B instead. The main thing working against us right now is time: we have 3 weeks to put together a build that will have people talking.

Oh, the title of this blog post. M is the new CEO of Linden Lab .... he must be having a great 2nd week so far. :)