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Memory Stick
by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate I keep my love in a memory stick I hang about my neckI plug her in to my PC and begin to hunt and peck‘Til she appears on my LCD full of life and charmAnd reaches out to take a hold of my digital arm Then off we fly where [...]
Full StorySecond Life Is Indefensible
“banning griefers is a worthless excercise” – ACS DreamlandPN rumored to be preparing megaprim-based weapons by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Dreamland construction forgot to auto-return the particle spam emitter The landlord’s role in the Second Life virtual land business may be getting a bit more challenging. Consider the group notices from Anshe Chung’s Dreamland [...]
Full StoryKinky Demographics of SL BDSM Community
Why do virtual Doms accumulate a fleet of subs? by Victorria Paine To the consternation of some residents, alternative lifestyles featuring some element of what falls under the umbrella term “BDSM” are very common in SL, and much more “in the open” than in the material world. While the presence of this community, and its [...]
Full StoryDutch Politicians Furious With Prosecutor for Dropping SL Ageplay Investigation
by Luuc Writer Luuc Writer (Lucien Baard irl) is a reporter for the Tentsche Courant Tubantia newspaper in The Netherlands As reported in the Herald back in February, a Dutch prosecutor opened an investigation into ageplay in Second Life on the grounds that representations of child sex are illegal in the Netherlands, even if children [...]
Full StoryA Year in the Second Life
El Diablo investigates virtual girlfriends, freaks, parties, and drive-by penising by Mariner Trilling, man of many parts As my first rez day approaches, it gives me an occasion to look back upon my first year in Second Life. There were the obvious changes as I went from dickless noob to anatomically correct avatar but SL [...]
Full StoryWedding Stories in the Metaverse
by Katrina Eales 7.05 pm on August 22. Venue: Love Story Weddings. After months of meticulous planning Alleggra Whitfield’s big moment had arrived. She was anxious to step down the aisle and take the hand of her betrothed, Bert Cramer, sealing the promise they had already made to live only for each other throughout their [...]
Full StoryGraciana McMillan – Post 6 Grrrrl
[Note from Justine Babii- I was lucky enough to cover the Budweiser Select Lingerie Contest for SLNN a few weeks ago, which is where I met this week's model. Graciana was the winner of the August competition, and was just edged out of winning the whole thing in online voting. Graciana is smart and gorgeous [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: LL Selling Residents’ Souls To Data Miners?
ANYTHING goes in Linden Lab’s headlong drive to get the corporates on board by Inigo Chamerberlin Linden Lab may have found a way of dangling a tasty carrot in front of the corporates – a way of connecting a Second Life resident identity with a RL identity – and this may explain the Linden’s fascination [...]
Full StoryBanking in Second Life Is Not Totally Ginko’ed
L$ space buck banking in the post-Ginko Financial era by Jessica Holyoke The recent upheaval over Ginko Financial’s failure overshadowed other reports of the SL financial sector, so after the bank run and bond conversion, I decided to investigate the other banks in SL. What I found was surprising. serious L$ investors ponder metaverse banking [...]
Full StorySL Relationship Ethics – Anonymity, Timezones, & Spybots
Ethics Roundtable Topic One by Victorria Paine Following the Op/Ed I wrote last week about appropriate ethics in our virtual environment, this is the first of an occasional series of articles focusing on one specific ethical issue at a time – something that I hope will allow for more in-depth discussion of each topic. I’ve [...]
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