Archive for August, 2009

The Rock Spider Clan of Second Life

Hundreds of avatars have paedophilia slang last name by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk After previous ageplay scandals, one might have assumed Linden Lab would want to avoid even the appearance of being paedophilia-friendly. But as The Escapist reports, one of the new last name options for avatars – Rockspider – is well known slang [...]

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Enjoying The Erotic Flora of Second Life

Searching the grid for plant-on-girl action by Looky Lu “Call any vegetable, and the chances are good,That the vegetable will respond to you.” – Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention — “Call Any Vegetable”   “Oh my. That looks promising.” My girlfriend and I are exclusive. In the two and half years we’ve been [...]

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Open Letter to Your Boss about SL

Help promote serious business in Second Life  by Pappy Enoch I done read the “Open Letter to Your Boss” that them Linden Gorillas put up on the Interweb thing and them Lindens done left out a thing or two. So I took a crack at that-there letter myself.  A city feller from a college (not [...]

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Mayya Sirnah — Post 6 Grrl

[This week's model IM'd me about modeling and met with me for the obligatory interview and I was completely charmed. She even came cheerily back to do a second photoshoot when I admitted that through a boneheaded but complicated computer move I had managed to delete one third of the pictures of her from the [...]

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What Should I Do With My Hair?

by Jessica Holyoke One of the things I love about Second Life is the ability to substantially change my appearance by going hair shopping.  In fact, an article by Jimbo Quality addressed how different people look when all they use is the standard issue avatar hair.  But with the emergence of the new grids, I [...]

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Sleeping Beauty

by Bunny Brickworks Shhh… don’t wake her up. She looks so serene and dreamy as she’s lying there, bathing in sunlight, her head resting on her arm. There’s hardly any public chat around her, avatars just stand and stare, you occasionally hear the sound of the clicking cameras. 3D Soup has created a new sculpted [...]

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Obituary – Oliphant Ming

Oliphant Ming, yachtsman, physician of Gor, died on June 26, aged 61by Pixeleen Mistral, sports desk The Herald is sad to report that William Clinton Bahan, Jr. – the real life gentleman behind the Second Life characters Oliphant Ming, Elwood Fizz, Lupe Alvarado, unverified Kong, and many others – died on June 26 at age [...]

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L$ Economy In Summer Slump?

Q2 in-world economic results by Jessica Holyoke If you haven't noticed on the log-on screen, the Lab has released their numbers for the economy this past week. Now the Herald Stat Department is able to provide the results of the SL Economy.  User to User Transactions are the big story for T Linden as it [...]

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Op/Ed: Virtual Pirate Faces Real Life – The Next Level

by Kris Dibou For years now, I have enjoyed a virtual life in paradise.  I have been the poet, the pirate, the writer, the builder, graphic artist, programmer, cowboy, musician, editor, and game designer of sorts.  All this and more; yet, in the outside world (which we refer to as 'rl') I have not been successful at [...]

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Meltemi Case — Post 6 Girl

[Former Post 6 Photographer Justine Babii im'd me a few weeks ago with the name Meltemi Case, and as soon as I met Ms. Case I think I knew exactly what Justine meant by "unique". Meltemi Case arrived for her photoshoot with friends posing as an agent and a publicist and proceded to keep us [...]

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