Archive for July, 2008
The Pearl:Victorian Brothel/Promiscuous Mermaids
Inventory server mishap creates inseparable siamese-twin stories Something went horribly wrong when I put the prims holding the notecards for these two stories on Pixeleen’s piano at the Herald offices in Jessie sim – I crashed and when I relogged the prims holding the stories were fused – along with the stories! My interview at [...]
Full StorySL Herald – the literary backbone of virtual worlds?
Mario Gerosa Interviews Urizenus Sklar on the New New JournalismDoes this explain all the damn poems? by Idoru Wellman, Dept. of Literary Salons and Euro-Trash Intellectuals Mario Gerosa (Frank Koolhaus in SL) wears many hats (some virtual). He is real life editor of Architectural Digest Italia He has also made headlines here and elsewhere with [...]
Full StoryNate Ninetails — Post 6 Guy
[Few guys in Second Life are as easy-going, reliable and balanced as Nate. Having him on your friends list means there's always someone to cheer you up, to join you on an excessive shopping tour or to kick your butt in combat. He is talented in many ways and his picture-editing skills make every cheap [...]
Full StorySlouching Toward Bethlehem: The Anti-Poet
Spam filter fails — critic battles emo poetry outbreak by Sigmund Leominster, new media critic Following the tragic failure of my spam filter to do its job, I recently received an unsolicited email containing a piece of poetry from what was described as someone with “a poet’s heart and pen.” Here’s a clip from the [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Google Whacks LL’s Ad Options
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk unemployed bots forced to seek Lively jobs as chat session miners and ad customizers? The Herald newsroom was quiet – staff writer Idoru Wellman had headed out muttering something about “Ginger & Jack, and four or five Feminax”. After the door closed, I stopped sorting through pictures of the [...]
Full Story[Resolved] Land Store taken offline repeatedly
Resolved 10:43 a.m. PDT Our Land Store is open! ZOMG! Thank you again for your patience while we got hammered – that is how we keep SL going!! Update 10:18 a.m. PDT Our InterWebs Developers are taking great care to make sure the Land Store is 100%. Someone told them about testing last night over [...]
Full StoryIt’s Official, we cannot be Supporting Second Life after Today
Whoresday, July 17th, 2008 at 5:43 PM by: Phatt Linden Back in early May 2007, we thought about blogging to let you know that we were seriously considering whether Linden Lab would ever fix Second Life. It was easy to blow off the old Mac users but some new Macbook Pro users were even whinging [...]
Full StoryUpdate on Mainland supply
Caturday, July 19th, 2008 at 5:75 AM by: Hack Linden Since my previous post – which I am sad to say I cannot find right now, but is certainly on the interwebs somewhere — I’ve been wearing this special metaverse infallibility HUD thingie from Philip Linden. It was part of the “stay positive” welcome pack [...]
Full StoryDarkley Aeon — Post 6 Grrrl
Although I very much appreciate people who spend all their time and Lindens on the bringing to perfection of their one avatar, be it in RP or not, it is the chameleons I love the most. Those people who re-invent themselves on every log-in. And though changing their looks dramatically every day, their character, their [...]
Full StoryNanao Mahfouz Ejected From Alliance Navy!!!
Former Admiral to pursue other interests, spend more time with family by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Mr. Mahfouz studies his civilian options in an elaborate heads up display As word spread of the ejection of former Admiral Nanao Mahfouz from the Alliance Navy last weekend, the big questions in the Second Life militia community [...]
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