Archive for the year 2007
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 [...]
Full StoryFiction 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 [...]
Full StoryAurel 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 [...]
Full StoryLinden 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 [...]
Full StoryThe 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 [...]
Full StoryApril 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 [...]
Full StoryWord of Mouth Marketing a Winning Strategy for Post Sixx Contest
by Muffin K. Smith, Herald grrrl about town. Fox Cavern- Post Sixx grrls are learning that beauty is more than pixel deep, because last week’s Post Sixx grrrl pageant seemed to come down to personality and brains as the beauties who took the stage were “really too close to call” according to pageant judge Marilyn [...]
Full StoryToday in Second Life, Thursday April 12, 2007
By Prokofy Neva, Meaningless Numbers Cruncher and Irrelevant Facts Driller Today in Second Life: o if you add up all the numbers of today’s date, you get the number 7, which is the number of holes in the human heado Some Linden must be getting a pay-off as there are $26,000 in SINKS for April [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Herald Condemns Wei’s Stance on Prim Babies
Candidate Romana Wei: Put the Prim Babies to Work Several Days ago, the Herald reported the efforts of Mrs. President Chomsky in her crusade against blingtard moms who leave their prim babies at home while they go ho-ing in Second Life sex clubs. The Herald applauds Mrs. President in this endeavor, and we must also [...]
Full StoryQQ – The Skyrocketing Virtual Currency
by Onder Skall QQ finally made headlines in the Wall Street Journal. Largely ignored here in the west, the hottest virtual currency in China is the QQ. Created by Tencent Holdings Ltd, “QQ Coins” were originally invented as a means for trading virtual items in online worlds and through their popular instant messaging program. For [...]
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