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SLBoutique Zeros Commissions

Second Life content creators plan to break out party hats and hooters to celebrate by Pixeleen Mistral, Virtual E-commerce desk Saturday night, SLBoutique notified sellers that the web-based shopping mall is dropping its sales commission to zero – metaverse content creators who sell their virtual wares via the http://www.slboutique.com/ web site will net a few [...]

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FM Radio – Sponsored by Astroid Blue’s Space Station Casino

Hot country fried SL ads and no static at all by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk SL radio honcho Darryl Daniel Rhett Akins is singing “Driving My Life Away” on SLKY – a Second Life-oriented “hot country hits” audio stream that promises the surreal combination of unrequited love songs and ads for SL businesses such [...]

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Caliah Lyon – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editor’s note: Marilyn Murphy is the artistic vision and photographer behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. I was lucky to chat with her thursday at the Herald birthday bash- and even more lucky to be introduced to the subject of Marilyn's latest photo shoot. I'm sure our readers will be thrilled to meet this week's [...]

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Reuters SL Newsfeed Down – 5 Hours and Counting

Reuters SL newswire operation achieves LL levels of reliability by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk no in-world Reuters news hud for you – here’s why Here at the Herald, we depend on the mojo wire to alert us to breaking news – but the office staff noticed a curious silence when they checked Reuters Second [...]

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Multi-Media Luv

Destroy Television and Pixeleen Mistral dating by Denise Levertov, Gossip QueenPixeleen and Destroy – special friends Which two avatars where caught in a steamy embrace at last night’s Herald Birthday party? None other than Pixeleen Mistral and and the Electric Koolade Sheep girl-about-town, Destroy Television! Wowzers!!! Destroy crashed the SL media scene this week and [...]

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LL Taps Bandwidth Brakes – May Ask Residents to Pay for Help

Can’t the Lab print and sell L$s fast enough? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk running on empty? Wednesday’s metaverse upgrade caused widespread mirth as residents across the grid chuckled and reported high packet loss. Liana Linden thanked everyone for their support and said, “We are working on this issue”. Usually reliable sources informed the [...]

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The Ghost at the Banquet Speaks

[In March, Doc Nielsen - a two year veteran of SL - liquidated her assets and left the metaverse. For a perspective on how our world has evolved, I asked Doc to share her impressions after a 6 month hiatus. - pixeleen] by Doc Nielsen Back in March 2006 I finally decided I’d had enough [...]

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Fall Boat Show

a MSM-style analysis-free, lightly edited press release – enjoy! scary monsters (and super creeps) like Flying Tako sailboats The Second Life Sailing Federation’s web site reports that a fall boat show is running until October 31st at the Sanchon Sailing Center. Quoting from the site, “the boat show lives on as a pure exhibition of [...]

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Sony Media Monorail Derailed!

Plywood pileup – lone devolutionist claims responsibility by Txema Nuvolari ALEXANDER releases Devo tune on Sony – monorail cars jam On the night of Sunday October 22th 2006, Monorail transportation on Sony´s Media Island was artistically sabotaged by an avatar who´s identity will be presented here as “Alexander”. By building up huge wooden boxes, Alexander [...]

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Ads For Login Screen?

Will LL sell space on the login page? By Fiend Ludwig Don’t web pages usually include ads? Re: Second Life 1.12.3(1 & 2) Beta Josh Linden Says: “… – there’s a shiny new web-based login screen! “But Josh,” you ask, “aren’t you Lindens supposed to be fixing bugs instead of adding flashy features to the [...]

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