Archive for November, 2006
Get A Life – Jilted Lesbo Fears Cycle of Tears; Longs for ‘Drag King’
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. Heartun Breaker can help you! HEY HEARTUN: I recently broke up with my long term girlfriend. Me and her were like family and I know we’re supposed to be together, however dumb that sounds. I know if someone told me that, I’d say ‘get over it.’ I’m sort of [...]
Full StoryCost of SL Escort Services to Rise?
Rates going up? Screenshot of Cardie via cardiemahoney.com. According to infamous Second Life Escort Cardie Mahoney, the cost of professional cybersex is bound to rise by virtue of the recently announced price increases for islands. Her reasoning is as follows: With the island tier going up, the owners of new islands building clubs (and there [...]
Full StoryBig Biz Spending in the Metaverse: Millions for Giant Boxy Corporate Monuments, Nothing for Dialogue and Thought
Big corporations have been falling all over themselves to get into virtual worlds and impress us with the fine corporate builds (i.e. big ugly boxy things), spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them according to Business Week. They also like to tell us how big they are on conversing and wanting to learn. That [...]
Full StoryTravel: Matt Gross’s Night in Paris
Impressed as all fuck by his fascinating travel reporting on Second Life in the New York Times, the Second Life Herald has commissioned Matt Gross (aka Urge Gainsbourg) to be the travel reporter for other fascinating destinations with diverse cultures. As his first assignment, we sent him to France. Following, is Matt’s eagerly awaited report. [...]
Full StoryElves Dispersed
An elf returns to real life… By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Another troubling sign of change in our world. I was digging through all the noise on World of SL, with its BlogHud babble and neon Torley Linden snaps, when suddenly I glimpsed a signal: a brief mention in Osprey Therein’s blog that [...]
Full StoryU2 in SL at Dragon Moon Resort
concert review by Jaraziah Lowell U2 in second life It’s Saturday night, and I love to go dancing – so I hit Search and go to the Events tab. And once there, this concert draws my attention – U2 Life in Second Life! I read on and – ooooh, it’s a role playing group. But [...]
Full Story“The Democrat” SL Paper Folds
in-world paper cuts itself out of circulation by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk After a 4 month run, Redaktisto Noble has closed the Democrat’s notecard printing press – throwing in the ink stained towel on his dream of running his own in-world “objective” press. The Democrat was founded in July with the goal of providing [...]
Full StoryGet a Life – No ‘Third Life’ For You!
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. Heartun Breaker is here to help HEY HEARTUN: How do I manage a personal life with a wife, three kids and Second Life? ~ NEED A THIRD LIFE DEAR NEED: I’m sorry, but there will be no ‘third’ life for you. What’s more, from the sounds of things your [...]
Full StoryThe Awful Truth
by Fiend Ludwig My World from Hamlet’s Window They are hiding something from me. I am sure now. Sure that my world is only partly realized, partly resolved. Sure that a superseding reality exists. I have suspected for some time – catching fleeting glimpses of the another place. For a while I was able to [...]
Full StoryLa Tourista
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk please ignore the missing textures and grey avatars Rushing to fill a temporary lull in the breathless Second Life main stream media coverage, Urge Gainsbourg‘s meatspace typist – Matt Gross of the New York Times – published a carefully airbrushed account of his experiences as a weekend tourist in [...]
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