Archive for the year 2005

A Walk to Remember

(Image stolen from CubeyTerra.com) Veteran vehicle-engineer and all-round propellerhead Cubey Terra recently hacked and slogged his way through fields of ban-lines and ejection-scripts to successfully complete what has become the first circumnavigation of the entire Second Life map.

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Game Reviews: #1 Living the Dark Life

by Koden Farber For those who love role playing games but are so addicted to Second Life they can’t log off to play something else, several in-game games may be the solution. In this report, I begin a series of reviews of in world games. This week we dive into Dark Life. In subsequent reviews [...]

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“It”s Not Illegal Yet!” — Opening the Sports Book in SL

by Walker Spaight As the rash of Tringo parlors makes clear, gambling is a not unpopular activity in Second Life. Now, just in time for March Madness, a full sports book is coming to SL that will allow residents to indulge their taste for wagering on RL sports like NCAA basketball, Major League Baseball, and [...]

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diary of a noob 3: i search for a pussy.

by Montserrat Snakeankle after a while i realized that trashing my wings didn’t mean that i actually trashed my wings. somehow they grow back. i don’t understand how, exactly, but i began to see that some places i go and i have one wing and someplaces i go and i have two wings. eventually this [...]

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Elves!

by Miravoir Psaltry Elf Clan leader Wayfinder Wishbringer Many have seen them, pointy-eared and with an otherworldly beauty, but so little is known about them, these elves. What are they like? What is their focus and what are their goals? How are they like the other subcultures in SL? I gathered together a few of [...]

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Bash and Crash on Unreal:SL’s Opening Night

Bedazzle’s much-anticipated Unreal:SL kicked off its weekend-long opening festivities last night with a crowded dance party that had everyone in attendance kicking up their heels — so much so that the sim crashed before the party was much more than an hour old.

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Post Six Grrrl Melody Parks

The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, even on time this week! Her name is Melody Parks. She says that she really enjoys both wandering around SecondLife and modeling. The Herald would like to take this opportunity to thank Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these pictures and [...]

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Outrage Over W-Hat Twin Towers Meets PoMoBabble Defense

by Brody MacDonald and Walker Spaight New controversy erupted recently over a W-Hat build in Baku sim depicting New York City’s World Trade Center towers under attack, as they were on September 11, 2001. But in addition to questions of taste, both the build and the community’s reaction to it also raise questions about just [...]

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Cousin Vincenzo’s Looking Glass War

In the hall of mirrors that is the SL mafia scene, alliegances come and go quickly and deception and betrayal are the order of the day. Vincenzo Gillespie worked for Vincent Stravinsky who in turn was in business with underworld power couple Gina Fatale and Marsellus Wallace. Vincenzo says he was hired to hit Cinda [...]

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Land Ho!

(Image stolen from secondlife.com) A new world (or at least a new sim or three) has apparently been discovered north of the SL grid.

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