Archive for the year 2006
Bored of War at the Jessie Weapons Fair
by Special Correspondent Lexander Solzhenitsyn Thankfully, hunting deer and foxes from horseback was recently made illegal in the UK. Any Englishman wishing to revel in the thrill of the chase must now pursue his prey as our ancestors did — stripped naked, covered from head to foot in woad and armed with nothing more than [...]
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A new art gallery opens tomorrow night in Second Life’s Areumdeuli sim. The Phoenicia Gallery and Studio, located in the heart of Areumdeuli, will be run by colleagues Viola Bentham and Victor Newchurch, and will feature “original works by talented artists from SL and RL.” For its opening reception, kicking off on Friday at 6:00pm [...]
Full StorySL Population Mostly FIC, Figures Show
Clickable Culture’s Tony Walsh brings us new information on Second Life’s population and demographics, courtesy of Philip and Cory Linden and the remarks they’ve been making lately at events like eTech. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the figures reveal that the vast majority of Second Life residents may be members of the dreaded Feted Inner Core!
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Rebel Hope
The Herald is happy to introduce this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Rebel Hope! Rebel is a noted clothier in SecondLife, who together with her husband, RH Engel, runs RH Designs! Thanks to Daphne Molinari, creator of Daphne’s Delights, for this week’s Grrrl.
Full StoryLindens Shoot for Blockbuster with Machinima Film
by Dow Jonas Forget the Oscars: blockbuster moviemaking is coming to Second Life in the form of a machinima movie produced in SL by Eric Linden and Bedazzled Studios, a group of SL’s top architects and content creators who have designed and built an elaborate stage set for the project. Titled “Silver Bells and Golden [...]
Full StoryTalk to Us
Episode #3 of Teh IntarWeb’s most lovable podcast — featuring such playahs as Cristiano Midnight, Aimee Weber, Lordfly Digeridoo, SNOOPYBrown Zamboni and myself — is now available over at Johnny Ming’s site, where, Johnny also reports, there have already been more than 1,000 downloads of the first three shows. If you want to get involved [...]
Full StoryFashion “Exposition” Review: Ambergris Baphomet
by Matthias Zander I just finished attending a fashion exposition (I’d heasitate to even come close to calling it a "fashion show") for the SecondLife designer Ambergris Baphomet. It was a very mixed set of clothing and raises some interesting questions about the fashion world in SecondLife in general. Overall, it was an interesting show [...]
Full StoryTulipmania Takes Over Second Life
by Dow Jonas The crocuses aren’t even up in real life yet, but in Second Life, people are going wild about pixelated tulips. The craze was started two weeks ago by a modest, unassuming but rather prosperous furniture and prefab creator, Desmond Shang of West Trade Imports Ltd., in Alice, who describes himself as an [...]
Full StoryThe Federation of Hamlet Linden
Hamlet Linden wraps up his tenure tomorrow as Linden Lab’s in-house blogger on all things Second Life, and has already found a new home. As Hamlet announced today, he’ll be joining Federated Media Publishing Inc., home network of such touchstone blogs as BoingBoing and Metafilter, where he’ll presumably keep on doing what he’s been doing [...]
Full StorySecondLife Reaches 150,000 Accounts
Late Sunday, SecondLife finally reached the mark of having 150,000 residents, no, paying accounts, wait, no, active accounts, hmmm, accounts – 50,000 residents and their 100,000 alts would perhaps be closer to the actual count. The number, as shown on the SecondLife website, is updated daily, and jumped from 149,505 to 150,107 at its update [...]
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