Archive for June, 2007

Post 6 Grrrrl – Firiel McGann

[Courtesy of Marilyn Murphy - photographer, visionary, and publisher of Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine is a special pet - Firiel McGann -- this week's Post 6 Grrrl. Firiel has deep blue eyes and super cute kitty ears - I'm sure our readers will find her like catnip - an intoxicating and irresistible neko. -- [...]

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Metaverse Hobo Camp in Welcome Area

“We’re here, we don’t pay tier — get used to it!” by Heartun Breaker, Senior Deadbeat Reporter Hobo camp in the Violet welcome area The normally tidy little Welcome Area of Violet erupted into a tent city full of hobo’s Thursday night. The bean eaters were protesting the recent Linden Lab decision to hijack the [...]

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Get A Life – Advice for Betty the Alt

by Heartun Breaker – syndicated advice columnist HEY HEARTUN ~ This question isn’t really for me; rather its for all those young men who think its cool to cross dress and look for lesbians. I’m a lesbian (online only) and am often recreating at the Isle of Lesbos. The other night this female avatar called [...]

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Interview With Precursor Pooraka

If you are going to a region marked “BDSM Bondage” you don’t expect the Disney store by humdog humdog: Hi — i’m here today with Precursor Pooraka, one of the forces against the abolishment of BDSM protest….hi Precursor, how are you today?Precursor Pooraka: I’m very well thank you humdog, thank you for seeing me humdog: [...]

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Throwing my Helmet into the Ring: A Mixed-Reality “Event”

by Jimbo Quality [What can we say? The idiot strikes again.--Walker Spaight] Lately, in real life, I’ve been hanging around at my local airport. I started going there a few months ago to price airline tickets to Chicago for the Second Life Community Convention, but now I go for the coffee. (I tell you, someday [...]

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Mario Gerosa: “Stop the Criminalization of Second Life!”

It seems like every day there is more bad press about the moral and legal problems with Second Life. Ageplay, for example, has caught the attention of courts and media outlets ranging from the US, to the Netherlands, to Germany, to France to Italy. Mario Gerosa has said “enough is enough” and is fighting back. [...]

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Linden Lab’s Job Fair in Boston – With Open Bar?

An LL wanna-be attends real life job fair – and is not impressed by JayR Cela In the 21 months that I have been a citizen of Second Life, much has changed. SL is no longer a just a RPG hang out. Real life is encroaching, and the best we can do it roll with [...]

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Robin Linden’s Broadly Offensive Behavior Office Hour

Residents question Robin Linden on “deliberately left vague” policy statement by Myrrh Massiel Since Linden Lab’s recent crackdown on ageplay expanded to include additional forms of broadly offensive behavior, several thousand residents have gathered under the banner of United Protest to seek a reversal of Linden Lab’s new policies of intolerance. Yesterday, leaders from various [...]

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Funnelling Newbies: The New Business Portals

At new AzureIslands Welcome area: helping others is helping oneself to a full roster of paying tenants. By Prokofy Neva, FIC 2.0 Watch Linden Lab finally officially announced today a plan that has been in the works for more than a year: funnelling the newbie sign-up stream to a dozen or so of their favourite [...]

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French Watchdogs Yap at Linden Lab

More reasons for “Keeping Second Life Safe, Together”? by Onder Skall GamePolitics reported today that the parent-teacher group Familles de France (FdF), in yet another effort to avoid raising their own children, is suing Linden Lab for allowing access to pornographic material to minors. They were recently shocked to discover that the Internet has porn [...]

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