Archive for April, 2007

Lifestyles of the SL Rich and Famous

By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs I was so proud of our very own Second Life rich and famous appearing in the article published today in Business Week, Big Spenders of Second Life. Every single person on the list deserves to be on there for their hard work and long hours in the risky business of [...]

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Everyone Gangs Up on the Alliance Navy

New strategic arms treaty for SL combat groups by Curious Rousselot, war correspondent Merczateers and others want a new treaty Friday April 13, 2007 at 5:00 PM PST most of the organized combat groups of Second Life started the process to craft a new treaty on the use of arms and rules of war within [...]

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Gambling on the Virtual World Trade Center

by Rhinestone Bling, business reporter …coming soon to a metaverse near you Friedman- SL Entrepreneur LukeConnell Vandeverre is gambling despite the recent Linden discouragement of the practice. His brand of gambling doesn’t involve cards or dice, however, it involves stocks and buildings; namely, it involves his holdings in the Second Life World Stock Exchange and [...]

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RIP Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007

By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk Second Life avatars gathered again tonight at the Velvet club in Iron Fist to leave flowers, candles, cigs, and drinks in memory of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr, a beloved internationally-known American author who died April 11 at the age of 84 of brain injury suffered after a fall. Somehow a [...]

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Touching the Sky

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universe, Multiverses, Metaverses (Yes, There’s More Than One) and Deep Negative Hyperspace OK, so I’m clearing away prims in Neumoegen and suddenly I see Michael and Nigel Linden have a new train, a dark-red, old-fashioned beat-up one that I guess fits in with the hobo build in Calletta [...]

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Fiction or Documentary? Real or Virtual?

Over a year ago I met art/documentary filmmakers Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita (Dellakino Arizona and Dellakino Omlet in SL). Kaori is from Japan (Tokyo) and Alain is from France (Paris). At the time they were working on a documentary-fiction about people who played the Sims and TSO, but the project has morphed into [...]

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Aurel Miles – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Aurel Miles has been taking some time away from her writing to work on a super curvey look that swept the judges at the Post 6 Grrrl pageant off their feet. Marilyn Murphy - the visionary, photographer, and publisher of Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine - captured this special girl and her [...]

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Linden Lab Removes User Content

Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs In an unprecedented move for a company that prides itself on promoting user creativity and user content, Linden Lab announced today that they will be removing user content — the ratings section on the avatars. When the Lindens GOM’d the GOM, they removed the rationale for an independent currency market, but [...]

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The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend: Federation Joins War Against AN

By Omega Groshomme, SL Herald War Correspondent Across the wasteland. Walking, walking, now stumbling, now climbing over debris. All around me the battlefield is littered with the bodies of AN soldiers, craters, burning buildings and totaled vehicles. As I navigate the shrapnel-riddled dirt I come over the crest of a hill to see them: A [...]

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April 14th is Bandana Day!!!

Locks of Love Hopes You’ll Wear a Bandana on April 14th. In an event that is tied to the hugely popular Hair Fair ’07, “Bandana Day” is hoping to get you to wear a bandana instead of prim hair on Saturday, April 14th. Says Locks of Love charity liaison for 2007 Celebrity Trollop, “The idea [...]

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