Archive for September, 2007
Op/Ed: LL Selling Residents’ Souls To Data Miners?
ANYTHING goes in Linden Lab’s headlong drive to get the corporates on board by Inigo Chamerberlin Linden Lab may have found a way of dangling a tasty carrot in front of the corporates – a way of connecting a Second Life resident identity with a RL identity – and this may explain the Linden’s fascination [...]
Full StoryHey Girlfriend! – Avatar Of The Month Calendar Contest
Baby unicorns, furries, neko, robots, elves, gorean slaves, drow, and human girls will compete to be avatar of the month Monday night was the kickoff for the 12avatars.com contest – where a printed calendar will feature a sexy female avatar for every month. Founder Monkeyface Wooget and Fallon Winnfield arrived by helicopter – no, I’m [...]
Full StoryBanking in Second Life Is Not Totally Ginko’ed
L$ space buck banking in the post-Ginko Financial era by Jessica Holyoke The recent upheaval over Ginko Financial’s failure overshadowed other reports of the SL financial sector, so after the bank run and bond conversion, I decided to investigate the other banks in SL. What I found was surprising. serious L$ investors ponder metaverse banking [...]
Full StorySL Relationship Ethics – Anonymity, Timezones, & Spybots
Ethics Roundtable Topic One by Victorria Paine Following the Op/Ed I wrote last week about appropriate ethics in our virtual environment, this is the first of an occasional series of articles focusing on one specific ethical issue at a time – something that I hope will allow for more in-depth discussion of each topic. I’ve [...]
Full StoryBaby Unicorn Power!!!
Unicorn love is a beautiful thing by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Unicorn babies need love What’s the latest trend among the elite Fashionista groups of SL this week? I’ll give you a hint. It’s not bubble hemmed sleeves. It’s not scarves, nor Shai’s plaid jackets. No, no – this time we’re talking unicorns. Tiny, adorable [...]
Full StoryWhich SL Software is Best? – 4 Viewers Reviewed
An expert’s guide to SL client software – including the Nicholaz Beresford options4 great ways to a better SL experience! by JayR Cela, SL viewer connoisseur After living in the Second Life metaverse for 2 years, I have seen quite a few changes take place. Sometimes it seems to me the Lindens are hell bent [...]
Full StoryThe Re-Invention of Philip Linden
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist [update: photo credit for the picture below - Tara5 Oh. The original picture and Tara5's interview with King Philip can be found here: here] Mrs. Linden’s little boy is growing up. The fair-haired, Donnie-Osmond-cute repository of our hopes and dreams, “El Chefe” who says we can “blame it all on him,” [...]
Full StoryDutch Prosecutor Drops Second Life Ageplay Investigation
“child avi’s not realistic enough” Urizenus Sklar, Dutch Morality Desk As reported in the Herald back in February, a Dutch prosecutor opened an investigation into ageplay in Second Life on the grounds that representations of child sex are illegal in the Netherlands, even if children were not involved in the making of the porn. Ageplay, [...]
Full StorySecond Life as Temporary Autonomous Zone
By Urizenus Sklar Coming on the heels of the Linden’s recent excessively broad and vague definition of the “broadly offensive”, the hand wringing about the Leather and Lace Ball at the Second Life Community Convention got me thinking about Hakim Bey’s fringe culture classic, Temporary Autonomous Zones. Bey’s headline idea was how Temporary Autonomous Zones [...]
Full StoryJimbo Quality Enhances Leadership Image
Jimbo buys presidential quality hair by Jimbo Quality After my last article, I sensed that there was something missing from my campaign to become President of Second Life. I sensed that the people had expectations of me that I wasn’t meeting. My team hit the streets and conducted extensive research to find out what my [...]
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