Archive for February, 2009

SL Grand Tour Starts Valentines Day

Group overcoming negative feelings from OpenSpace Sim change by Rose Springvale The Grand Tour Planning Committee is pleased to announce our secondGrand Tour on Saturday, February 14, 2009 beginning at 8:30 am SL time. TheGrand Tour was created last fall by a group of citizens who wanted toovercome the negative feelings generated by the change [...]

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WeeWorld WeeMee Wears Justin Timberlake’s Wardrobe

by Sigmund Leominster In my last excursion into the world of adolescents and ‘tweens, I became a new avatar, Pixeleen, and let loose my inner Barbie at the Barbie Girls™ virtual world. My latest trip was as a not-so-undercover reporter into WeeWorld, a virtual chat room populated by thousands of two-dimensional characters called WeeMees. Sigmund [...]

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Robin Harper Linden Farewell In Dublin – Friday 13th

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk This morning, Sitearm Madonna dropped off a press release at the Herald offices announcing "Bad Luck for Linden Lab Day" on friday the 13th — a farewell to Robin Harper Linden Reception at the Dublin 2 sim. The festivities will include a meet 'n greet and live music from [...]

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Meta Linden Talks Land Statistics

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk As Mitch Wagner and Cybergrrl Oh regaled the audience at today’s Copper Robot gabfest with tales of social network marketing from the frozen tundra of Alaska, it dawned on me that I was standing next to the spider that creates the land and economic statistics for Second Life – [...]

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Orphaned Raw Statistics Page Found!

Land statistics “temporarily unpublished” by Linden Lab Two other statistics page still missing – presumed dead by Pixeleen Mistral – National Affairs desk Authorities at the IETF Missing Web Pages bureau were relieved to see the orphaned “Economic Statistics (Raw Data Files)” page had been reunited with the rest of the Second Life web site [...]

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Private Eyes For Hire in SL

by Alessandra Narayan It all started due to a gap in SL’s service industry – and some resident's need to monitor other avatar's actions – but ended up becoming a profitable business. Now anyone can hire private detective to watch other avatar's moves, following them and filing elaborate. precise reports – a definite benefit for [...]

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Free Happiness Therapy – For You!

by Alessandra Narayan Have you ever heard of Sunshine Therapy Gardens? This is a place where you can listen to birds, nature sounds – and talk through your problems – relaxing and finding the answers you need, under the guidance of RJ Muni, a Netherlander licensed psycho/hypnotherapist decided to help people live better lives, especially [...]

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ADV: Get L$250 for Completing a 5-Minute Survey

RTI International (www.rti.org),a not-for-profit research organization with presences in RL and SL, isconducting a 5-minute survey on RL personality and demographic information andis in need of volunteers.  Upon completion of the survey, you will receive L$250. If you would like to participate, go to the RTI Facility in SL at http://slurl.com/secondlife/Labro/126/175/41

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Meet Tommy “The Patron” Parrot

A man dedicated to elevate SL art and cultureby Alessandra Narayan Do you remember studying “la renaissance”? In the XIV century, a bit all across Europe, but mostly in beautiful Italy – land of artists as Michael Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci – wealthy men with a taste for art helped sculptors, painters and others [...]

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Immersion

To sleep, perchance to dream… by Kris Dibou The problem with total immersion is that you must come up for air or you will suffocate… I suppose it is like a sailor being lured into the sea by a beautiful mermaid; he is so enamored with her that he does not realize he is drowning; [...]

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