Click here for a fascinating project, especially if you love Second Life mesh, but don't like how it now fits your avatar. It's a Kickstarter-style fundraiser to pay former Linden Lab graphics developer Karl Stiefvater (formerly Qarl Linden, now Qarl Fizz) to fix mesh so that it can better fit avatars. This project was initiated by mesh developer Maxwell Graf, who has led hundreds of other content creators and mesh users to ask Linden Lab for a "Rigged Mesh Parametric Deformer", which in basic terms would (as he puts it) "eliminate a plethora of unavoidable problems with mesh clothing, reduce workflow considerably, open the market, allow avatars AND clothing to be worn (both mesh), one size would fit all and we could keep our physical (virtual) identities."

However, as I blogged last week, the Lindens have downgraded that request to Someday/Maybe.

Enter Karl, who was unexpectedly fired from Linden Lab last year. However, the programmer (who also created effects for The Matrix movies) is still a passionate believer in SL and its content creators. As he tells me: