Acronym | context | meaning |
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aGOTG | autogenerated Gazette Online Travel Guide | Web page with location names + location teleport addresses + location photos + stamp images, as generated from the stamps spreadsheet, accessible from the left hand sidebar of the Gazette. |
aTAU | autogenerated Travel Advice Update | The former, now retired name for the Stamp Finder. See StaFi acronym. |
BBB | Bellisseria Bureau of Bureaucracy | A group of unpaid volunteers dedicated to support citizens of the Bellisseria continent, but also to greater Second Life. Not associated but with backing by LL. |
BBBUG | BBB User Group |
Group for Bellisserian Bureau of Bureaucracy (BBB) Passport Holders (!!!).
Receive updates, keep informed, obtain more BBB tools ! THIS IS AN INVITATION ONLY GROUP. Contact BBB Staff for an invite. |
CDS | Confederation of Democratic Simulators | A small "continent" consisting of 6 sims at the current time and completely community governed. Rathaus Neufreistadt. |
CSS | cascading style sheets | A method of separating form from content for web pages, effectively used to have the content of a web page displayed in different ways, e.g. with different fonts, image sizes, ... without touching or changing the content. |
HTML | hypertext markup language | The way web pages are programmed. |
HUD | head-up display | Displaying information in a frame in-world without restricting the view too much. |
LDPW | Linden Department of Public Works | The terraforming group of LL, managed by the Moles. |
LI | land impact | A measure to assess impact of rezed objects to land allowance. |
LL | Linden Labs | Second Life creator corp. |
LSL | Linden Scripting Language | The language to programmatically automate objects, avatars, ... in Second Life. |
MoaP | media on a prim | The method to display web pages, or video and audio streams in-world wrapped onto a moveable and resizable object. Used e.g. in StaFi and PoH HUD. Benefit: contents can be updated for all without re-distribution of the HUD object to all users. |
MSiD | Multiple stamp issuing device | In-world hand-held stamp terminal owned by Patch Linden and Abnor Mole, used on very special events. |
PoH | Parade of Homes |
An illustrated list of homes and decorations that help as examples to others on how to enrich gardens and interior as PoH webpage, but also available as in-world HUD from a dispenser at the BBB HQ . Applications for proud home owners for being listed in the PoH as well is open to all citizens via an application page referenced in the right hand sidebar of the BBBGazette Also, the PoH features a very descriptive blog page by BBB's Teresa, accessible via the Gazette sidebar. |
Prim | primitive | Elementary form of an object in SL, e.g. cube, torus, disk, ... |
SL | Second Life | Linden Labs sim, and our home. |
SQL | structured query language | The language used to retrieve or insert data into a database, allowing to specify conditions for selecting and sort the data content .. probably the most powerful language mankind has ever invented. |
s/s | spreadsheet | Data organized in visual tables of rows and columns, with cross-references between cells. |
SSiD | Single stamp issuing device | In-world hand-held stamp terminal, used on special BBB events. |
StaFi | stamp finder | In-world display of a web page with location names + location teleport addresses + location photos, small enough to fit on a HUD (effectively the aGOTG without stamp images column). The in-world HUD is obtainable from a dispenser at the BBB HQ. Also accessible via external StaFi webpage. |
tbd | to be defined | Something not yet specified in detail. |
TLA | Three Letter Acronym |
For some Ciceronian reason, most acronyms (like "BBB") are TLAs and years ago someone in the British Army noticed that and gave the phenomenon its own acronym. Well, for the fun part: let's call that a circular definition or backronym :-). |
URL | uniform resource locator | The "address" of a web page leading to the display of content. |