Archive for November, 2006
Herald to Embed Raving Reporter in Philcon 2006
Crusading SL journalists might help metaverse and RL – or not. This coming weekend, the Philadelphia Science Fiction and Fantasy Society will feature Second Life in a dozen panel discussions and multiple interactive sessions. To help maintain the cosmic order and appropriate levels of discourse between avatars populating the metaverse and meatspace typists stuck in [...]
Full StoryThe Great Hunt
by Budka Groshomme, Raving Reporter – Science Fiction desk I recently ran across an intrepid band of residents who had a rather unique joint hobby of cooperatively following scavenger hunts. This sounded interesting. Has a new sport been developing in second life or are the scavenger hunts so many property owners have used to attract [...]
Full StoryClones Pwnd?
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Stepford Wives, Trumansville, and Crop Circles The other night I’m rattling around Juanita at the Flamingo Court/Motel of Last Resort taking the names out of the “locked” doors of all those customers who stay with us such a short time (hehe), when I get an offline email out of the [...]
Full StoryAnshe to Honor Residents’ Vote: Dishonest PR Flacks to be Banned from Dreamland Continent
Dishonest PR added to previous list of bannable offenses: griefing, theft, violation of intellectual property, sexual harassment, online rape and distribution of child pornography Anshe Chung, owner and developer of virtual real estate on the Dreamland Continent (a region supported by 400-500 simulators that constitutes 10% of the land mass and 10% of the population [...]
Full StoryResidents of 400 Dreamland Sims vote to Ban PR and Marketing Flacks!!!!!
Residents vote unrepentant flacks off of 400+ islands! In one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban unrepentant PR Flacks from their 400-500 Sim region. Conservative estimates suggest that Dreamland consititutes 10% of the [...]
Full StoryJabra Kostolany – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: Marilyn Murphy is the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine - and she has outdone herself this time with some amazing photos of this week's delightful Dutch Post 6 Grrrl -- Jabra Kostolany.] First of all I would like to apologize me if you find some stupid sentences and spellings (although I’ve [...]
Full StoryCrayonistas talk Smack: “We pwn you SL biotches” (or something to that effect)
The Crayonista Street Gang Showing their Colors on the Mean Streets of SL Wowzers, those Crayonistas sure have their own style of smack talk. It’s the sort of raw, unvarnished street talk you might hear on Madison Avenue in front of Paul Stuart’s (certainly nothing you would hear in front of Brooks Brothers). In a [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Second Life Sex Worker Blasts Zee Linden’s Proposed Wardrobe Tax
Zee Linden’s Wardrobe Taxby Cardie Mahoney [Cardie Mahoney is a well-known Second Life Escort and Model, services described in more than enough detail on her web site cardiemahoney.com. She is also a frequent visitor to Crayonville, but she won't say why. I mean really, she goes to Crayonville but never *my* island? What's that about? [...]
Full StoryGarbage Collectors Run Amok – Create Transgendered Bald Bearded Women
LL promises one hour lag – for inventory restores by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Bemused Linden Lab technicians warned metaverse residents to avoid garbage collectors with the hiccups today. While Linden developers gathered to suggest home remedies for the embarrassing condition, crazed trash clearing/collecting bots continued to run amok inside the asset server causing [...]
Full Story“$1.6 Million US Dollars Spent,” and It’s Fake (ok, what else is being faked?)
I was impressed when I check the LL homepage yesterday and saw that it was announcing $1.6 Million in “US Dollars spent” in game. But then I checked my email and found an anonymous letter from a Herald reader claiming that one million of that amount was genererated in one and half hours by a [...]
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