Archive for April, 2007

Jesse Malthus 4/21/06-4/19/07

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs In a week of horror and sad cruelty with the massacre at Virginia Tech, comes a separate piece of sad news of a young man cut down at his most promising. The typist of the avatar Jesse Malthus, a 17-year-old Kentucky youth named Jesse Higginbotham, was killed in [...]

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Ryker Beck – Post 6 Grrrl

Greetings, fellow addicts! I say addicted merely because, at the present, that is what I am… addicted. To Second Life, to the people in it, to the creative outlet I’ve been presented with… a veritable mountain of opportunity to express myself through the glorious world of virtual reality. I’ve been in this “world” since February [...]

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You Rule: Second Life Turns Into Tropico

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Multiverses, Metaverses, Abusive Synthetic Island Nations, and The Tiny Crypto-Governance Department at LL That Rules Us All Anyway Oh, dear God. As if there weren’t enough problems in Second Life, what with the lag, the teleporters not working, inventory lost for good, now the Lindens have gone and announced [...]

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A FIC and Facile Guide to Second Life

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Available at amazon.com While we wearily wait for Uri’s and Walker’s book to come out (when, Uri, oh, when?!), and while we save up $22.04 US for the expenso Hamlet’s et. al Official Guide to Second Life, we now have the Unofficial Tourists’ Guide to Second Life by [...]

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Is Second Life Liberation Army Founder Part of a Corporate Spy Firm?

Solidad Sugarbeet resigns from SLLA leadership – claims Marshal Cahill is part of real life “corporate intelligence/security firm” by Bayesian Textbot Today, the following notice went out to the Second Life Liberation Army (SLLA): Dear SLLA members: Via an anonymous source, it has come to my attention that Marshal Cahill is the real life owner [...]

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Le Grand Souk Populaire Tient Ses Promesses

The Large Popular Souk Holds Its Promises [As the French presidential race continues, candidates reach for ever more creative ways to get their names in front of potential voters and onlookers in "our world, our imagination". This report is being made available in simultaneous translation courtesy of Bablefish - because any excuse to get more [...]

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Updated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?

Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]

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Alliance Navy Training – Prepared for the Worst

by Omega Groshomme, war correspondent the woofer “Altittude 100,speed 85,coming in under fire” the pilot shouts – I am on the drop ship of the Alliance Navy being flown into “the woofer” AN’s newest sim and HQ, a hot LZ, to meet Admiral Herbst and oversee his soldiers and training. The pilot doing his best [...]

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Spring Road Construction in the Metaverse

by Tillery Woodhen Linden Lab takes pot-holes to a new level The other day I was driving down on of the roads on the southern continent, just trying out my new car. When this little accident happened. I had thought it was just the server taking its time to load in the road, like usual. [...]

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Charity Event Organization

by Tenshi Vielle I’ve been thinking this morning about organizing a charity event to help out the Virginia Tech families. If anyone wants to help, please join the group Virginia Tech Charity to brainstorm and organize ways to assist those in need – and help out the VA Tech families. If you have ideas or [...]

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