Archive for the year 2008

SLEXchange DMCA Takedown Leads to Stalking

Skin designer’s DMCA complaint outs identity, leads to RL harassment by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista Stephanie Misfit dropped me a very particular link this morning. PXL Creations was forced to file a DCMA with SLExchange against a skin stealer. Well, it appears that when the thief recieves the documentation, they now have access to your [...]

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ADV: Cove Islands Real Estate

COVE ISLANDS REAL ESTATE offers private estate residential, commercial and commerce parcels on beautiful sims with generous prim bonuses. In addition to some of the best quality land available in Second Life, our residents receive a service second to none. Commerce and commercial parcels all have road access and double prim, while residential sims enjoy [...]

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Khitten Kurka — Post 6 Grrrl

[Note from Justine- These past few weeks I've had fun  taking a little break from my list of Post 6 applicants and looking at the thousands of beautiful avatars there are out there. I was shopping last week and met Khitten Kurka, who graciously agreed to be this week's Post 6 Grrrl. She is a [...]

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Inside “Your World, Your Imagination”

Congressional avatars — shocking video tells the tale? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A friend pointed out this video, and I can’t help but wonder – could this be one of the members of congress who was lofting marshmallows to Philip Linden at the April 1st PR event U.S. House of Representatives Committee on [...]

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Enclosure of the Metaverse

Special rules for select corporate partners? by Forelle Broek Seconded Life foot-in-mouth disease Linden Lab and IBM have reportedly entered into a joint venture “to create an enterprise-class version of Second Life behind a corporate firewall.” The news comes on the heels of the latest in-world protests by IBM employees over the company’s outsourcing of [...]

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Second Life’s Military Has One Epic Party

Militias turn off damage, perform Russian dances by Vegna Fouroux, war correspondent The epic begins with dancing to “In the Navy” On one bright Sunday morning I was wandering round an empty Dismal Plunge, bored. I got a mysterious tp from a friend of mine, Darakon. He proclaimed that LawrenceJoseph Roffo was steadily building a [...]

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Arkhein — SL Combat’s Breath Of Fresh Air

Darakon Kayvon not fighting A.I and Iron “Axis of Emo” Symphony factions – yet by Vegna Fouroux, war correspondent Arkhein’s Xyekep Richez and Proteus Hand For several months now combat in Second Life has been at a deadlock, with the militaries of the Iron Symphony slowly phasing out their fights with the militaries of Ascendant [...]

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Beware of Uncontrolled Kiosks

Relay For Life in SL committee warns against scams by Jessica Holyoke The Relay For Life in SL committee is starting an awareness campaign regarding other kiosks being sold in SL that are not under the control of the RFL in SL committee. These vendors are promising a 5% cut to the purchaser of anything [...]

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Jimbo “Hair” Quality and the *Lash All-Niter* Hair Story

How Bub Linden got free prim hair for the noobies by Jimbo Quality In fifty or sixty years, when the people living now are either dead or too daft to argue, historians will start chewing on this time period and work it up into a nice smooth bolus for mankind to digest. Whatever conclusions they [...]

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They Who Cannot be Named

by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate For a year and a half I lived in the worldOf they who cannot be namedI sang of the joys, I sang of the beautyIn the place that cannot be named And as I learned, I helped to buildThis world that cannot be namedI believed when they said that I [...]

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