Archive for June, 2009
Secret Shadow Settings in New SL Viewer?
PCs with DirectX10 video might already have it made in the shade by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Are the Lindens sneaking support for shadows into the Second Life viewer? Rumors of a shadowy Second Life in the near future could be true, if the notecard Jenny Thielt sent the Herald is accurate. The notecard [...]
Full StoryPaying For Free SL Love
How Linden Lab profits from adult verification by Jessica Holyoke The Internet and Virtual Worlds have tried to monetize pornography in different ways. Red Light Center, and other pornography web sites charge a monthly fee to access the naughty parts. IMVU has made the same types of overtures. In the past, I've seen one time [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Co-Founder Cory Ondrejka to Visit Metaplace
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Cory's Second Life profile After parting company with Linden Lab last year, Cory Linden Ondrejka joined EMI, where he seems to be doing well – and was recently promoted to senior vice president for digital strategy. Given Cory's credentials as a co-founder of Linden Lab and creator of [...]
Full StoryVaneeesa Blaylock Pushes Second Life’s Limits
I am a unique individual. And so am I. by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk My graphics card has nearly recovered from attending Vaneeesa Blaylock's "I Rez Therefore I Am" performance art event in early June. The artwork consisted of 25 silent female avatars wearing identical shoes and their own shapes – an invitation for [...]
Full StoryJenna Thurston — Post 6 Grrrrl
[Jenna Thurston has one of those avatars that you see and you just have to stop and look, which is exactly how I found her and begged her to pose for us this week. I was thrilled she said yes and I hope my pictures do her justice. I should mention that she showed me [...]
Full StoryMetaPRIDE Celebration – June 22
by Idorua Wellman, staff writer MetaPRIDE is a day-long Metaplace celebration of the diversity (racial, cultural,demographical, gender, and sexual orientation) featuring a variety of performers and speakers all day Monday June 22. Theevent will take place in the north area of Metaplace Central (the event area), the Lotus Club, Chooseareality's Metaequality Center, and the Alphaville [...]
Full StoryADV: Metaplace Needs Hugs
You can dance. You can give balloons. But where is the love? What if you lived in a world where shaking hands was impossible?A world where you couldn't even hug your best friends? A world without love… what kind of pixelated life would that be? Sadly, such a world exists today – in Metaplace. But [...]
Full StoryMystery Inside Investor Sells Stake in Linden Lab
Someone unloaded their Linden Lab holdings – but who? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk With reports circulating that an individual investor's equity stake in the Lab had been sold to Stratim Capital, the rumor mill can be expected to go into overdrive speculating about exactly which insider sold their shares – and why. Stratim [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: But What About The Children?
by Jessica Holyoke In the U.S., the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the re-hearing of a man who was convicted for e-mailing child sexual fantasies that he had. Dwight Whorely is currently serving 20 years in prison for 74 counts of child pornography and obscenity, including 20 counts of obscenity involving writing about his [...]
Full StoryLab Moles Dig Up Second Life Adult Mainland
Empty adult storefronts just as boring as PG/mature mainland by Jessica Holyoke Mixed messages from LL: a safe hub on the new Adults-only continent Today I had a chance to travel to Zindra, the new adults-only continent, and plumbed new depths of dullness for what was supposed to be a continent of sex and [...]
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