Archive for February, 2007

Jenna Saves the Day!

Have all the grid crashes kept you from your pose balls? Are your virtual genitals gathering pixelated dust because you can’t move stuff stuff from inventory? Have no fear, it’s Jenna Jameson to the rescue! Yep, she has her own video game, which you can download here. Via Sadako Does SL, who also writes a [...]

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Max Case Updates Sim Neighbours

Texas and California – does location matter? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Finding out where your sim’s server is in real life has just gotten easier thanks to an updated version of Max Case’s Sim Neighbours tool. Giving virtual land owners easy access to information about where their server is located and which other [...]

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Op/Ed: wtf?

by Pixeleen Mistral I am a generally patient soul. calm. not easily excitable. But I do view with a certain amount of alarm a few problems in the metaverse — such as those that resulted in a non-functional world for my small petty pursuits over the last few days. Indulge me if you will – [...]

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Latest Newbie Scam or Brilliant Marketing Tactic?

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Scams, Con Artists, Ponzi Schemers, and Emergent Metaversal Marketing Strategists Americans like to think they pwn the scams on Second Life, with their long, dishonourable traditions of P.T. Barnum (“There’s a sucker born every minute”), Charles Ponzi (Italian-born), and William Thompson (“Have you confidence in me to trust me with [...]

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Hard Crash

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Second Life went offline completely at about 10:50 pm SLT, after a very rough evening of avatars reporting constant hard crashes, teleport fails, transactions not going through, objects not rezzing out, etc. The valiant-sounding error message about “our best efforts” just went up, but even the website has [...]

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Gorean Copyright Fight

Ethics of copyright violations divide Gorean community by Curious Rousselot For over a year, a Gorean copyright fight has been raging over the ethics of distributing the novels of Gor in Second Life. John Norman’s Gor novels are the basis for the Gorean role-play – and some eager Gorean scribes have ignored real life copyright [...]

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Hawt RL Furry Action!

No this has nothing to do with Second Life, except may it shows what happens when you spend too much time in Furnation while tugging your junk irl. No, you don’t get furry palms/paws. You get this! Children beware!

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Log In Today For An Auction to Benefit Oxfam

Today at noon SL time (3:00pm Eastern), Second Life residents have the chance to donate to charity organization Oxfam in the UK via a charity auction to be held in »the Platon region« of SL. From 12 till 6, the auction will offer dates with desirable male and female residents of SL. According to a [...]

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Interview with Ex-Linden Cubey Terra

Cubey drops his Stephen and Coffee Linden alts – happy to be a regular resident again by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Persistent rumors have been circulating about Coffee and Stephen Linden’s disappearance from the Lab staff – and after a bit of detective work the Herald has turned up a very rare breed – [...]

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Which Way is Mecca? A Visit to the Chebi Mosque in Cordoba

Sprituality week in the Herald continues today with a visit to the Chebi mosque in the Cordoba sim, which is based on the Great Mosque in rl Cordoba. It is really a beautiful piece of work, from the detailed textures to the great work with light to the lovely call to prayer audio files. According [...]

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