Archive for January, 2009

Open Letter to Free Fandom

See you on OpenLifeGrid [UPDATE: Nikola Shirakawa's Free Fandom Texture Package is now available through BitTorrent] Hello Free Fandom. I know it has been a while since you heard from me, and there's a reason why. First off, my account was cancelled. The reason for this was I refused to pay the bill. I refused [...]

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LL Playing Gotcha With Land Baron?

IntLibber Brautigan's frozen accounts can’t sell L$ to pay bills by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk  A surprising note appeared on the Ancapistan Capital Exchange website tuesday evening – accord to the press release, IntLibber Brautigan’s virtual land business is having some difficulty covering land tier payments to Linden Lab due to the Lab’s L$ [...]

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Post 6 Grrrl — Tuesday Bekkers

[Youwant to feature the 'lil ole me'? Those words made me laugh. There shewas, an avatar with that certain something in her look, the way shetalked and reacted when I asked her to be a Post 6 model. Our photoshoot was certainly the longest in my Post 6 history but also the mostversatile - from [...]

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Alien28 vs Plagiariser – part 1

A shocking take of content theft, SL business treachery, and aliens — based on a true story by Coke Supply  

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Avatar of the Year 2008 – 2nd Place: Sidewinder Linden

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The coveted 2008 Avatar of the Year award second place trophy is awarded – posthumously – to Sidewinder Linden, an avatar who unfortunately is no longer part of the metaverse after being removed from Second Life when his RL typist stopped working for Linden Lab in December 2008, and [...]

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Avatar of the Year 2008 – 3rd Place: n3x15 and d3adl3yc0d3c

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Last night, while trying to convince Hamlet Au of New World Notes that things would really go much better for him if he would simply stop running away and dance with me – I don’t bite – the one-man Linden infomercial production company totally ruined the mood when he [...]

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Nicholas Mafia Smacks PN Web Site

Notorious PN griefer web site victim of DDoS attack – hopes to return in 2 weeks by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Nicholas Mafia claims to have taken the notorious Patriotic Nigras griefing group's website offline, and a visit to http://www.patrioticnigras.org/ currently leads to a simple image: Meanwhile, one of the wise guys associated [...]

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Torley Linden Targets Reformed Griefer N3x15?

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Ex-PN griefer N3x15 claims that virtual filmmaker Torley Linden is following him, saying, "After LL came back from vacation, Torley Linden was assigned to shadow me and probably fish for reasons to ban me, but he apparently has no experience in shadowing people without sticking out like a green [...]

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Rich Grainger – Coating the World in a Warm Blanket of Software

RGF Estates Corporation owns 450 sims – and growing by Alessandra Narayan In this interview, Rich Grainger, CEO of RGF Estates Corporation, says he runs a growing company in the virtual land business, and claims his company is growing at the rate of one new sim per day. An entrepreneur with hopes of becoming a [...]

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How Varied In Traffic Is The Second Life Bot Experience?

SL Strip Bot is NOT about inflating traffic – Pop Bots have so many uses by Omelette Meow, New World Notetaker Most bots in SL exist simply to artificially inflate Traffic numbers and simulate Resident traffic activity.  Other bots provide traffic, information, traffic, instruction, traffic, entertainment, traffic, or even act as showroom mannequins that increase [...]

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