Archive for June, 2010

First Bank of Enoch Holler Fails

Financial Traction Impossible, Fine Art to Cover Debts  by Journey Yellowlist, Financial Desk In a little over one week, deadbeat and drunken criminal virtual financier Pappy Enoch managed to lose both Linden dollars of virtual capital that he had collected to start his bank, plus another 19L in investments from two suckers avatars who came out [...]

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Lila Corith — Post 6 Grrrrl

[Sometimes you meet a model that is just perfect. Lila Corith is that girl. The shoot was entirely her design and I just hung on in the wake of her vision. I now just want to shut up and get out of the way so that you can meet this week's incredible Post 6 Grrrl, [...]

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M Poster Linden: Second Life Is Great For Meetings

Crap Mariner – now an official ProkStar thanks to this post pointing out the Lab’s iffy record on DMCA enforcement – shares a video account of life after the Lab for M Poster Linden.

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Chainsaw M Linden Gets The Chop – Philip Linden Steps In

Linden Lab CEO M Linden is stepping down, after axing 30% of the Lab’s staff in recent weeks and pulling a surprise no-show for his speech at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration. Philip Linden has been named interim CEO in a move that raised the hopes of residents with short memories, but left those [...]

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Philip Linden Covers For Speechless M Linden

Why M Linden missed his chance to talk at SLB7 Will Philip give the same speech again today? Players braving the lag at the Second Life 7th Birthday celebration yesterday were treated to a second speech by Philip Linden after M Linden was unable to attend his own speech due to an emergency. Speculation about [...]

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Caroline Southmoor — Post 6 Grrrrl

[Again, my luck holds, and Post 6 finds beautiful models without my having to leave the house. One of our Post 6 Models from a few weeks ago told me about this week's Post 6 Grrrl, and my wife, who also knows her, introduced us. Caroline Southmoor is as kind and outgoing as she is [...]

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Second Life 7th Birthday

Fake cake & hot date with the fortune teller  by Pappy Enoch, Famous Fake Banker & Star Reporter   I done up and gone to the 7th birfday party for Second Life. I heared from Mistophur Au that the pictures o’ nekkid gals was tossed out, but you knows SL. Who needs pictues? I’d find [...]

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Philip Linden’s LoveMachine Sprays Hates All Over Second Life Viewers

A call for bids titled “Create a custom SecondLife client for LoveMachinists” at VWorker.com will certainly create a fine frisson among Linden Lab fans desperate for good news – until anticipation turns to horror as Philip Linden’s LoveMachine unexpectedly runs backwards and sprays hate all over current Second Life client software. This does not seem [...]

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Op/Ed: How Supply Linden Games The L$ Currency Exchange

by IntLibber Brautigan Under a normal market, where there is a healthy flow of cash in and out of a given economy, those operating currency exchanges make significant profits in ways most people do not realize. With the LindeX, for example, the spread, i.e. the distance between the lowest sell price vs the highest buy [...]

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Financial Wizard to Prop Up Linden Dollar

No more Ups and Downs with First Bank of Enoch Holler by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Financial Desk There are storm clouds on the horizon of Second Life, given recent instability with Linden Lab’s virtual currency, massive layoffs at the firm, and CEO Mark Kingdon’s panic inducing reassuring words that the ship is sinking for all [...]

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