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Advertisement: Mad Doc’s Creation Given Second Life
On Saturday the 4th of August a group of Cambridge-based actors, writers and directors are hoping they have a future West End hit on their hands with “Joined at the Heart.” Before the traditional West End they want to break the virtual world. At 7.30pm (BST) / 11.30am (SLT) a performance will be streamed to [...]
Full StoryHanze Melnitz – Post 6 Man
[The Post 6 weekly feature is dedicated to exploring the range of metaverse human (and furry and robot) experience - with Marilyn Murphy as spiritual guide, visionary, and photographer. Marilyn is of course, the publisher of Players - SL's in-world erotica magazine. This week, Hanze Melnitz shows us how role, place, and responsibility define the [...]
Full StoryMy First Domme
An account of the surprises Second Life holds for residents in the post-gambling era by Wendell Holmer Serena said she was a photographer, but she wasn’t dressed like a photographer. She wore a tight black robe, open in the middle to show an expanse of skin between her breasts, all the way down to a [...]
Full StoryThe 500 Prim Boots
Columbia Journalism Review covers SL footwear fashions Possibly seeking to claim a part of the lucrative Second Life fashion news scene, the July/August issue of the Columbia Journalism Review includes in-depth coverage of virtual footwear – featuring the Herald’s own Walker Spaight, Urizenus Sklar and several other virtual world journalists. Given the CJR’s impending fashion-forward [...]
Full StoryGinko Financial’s AVIX Buyout Blocked
Cash crunch and opaque accounting limits Ginko’s appeal by Jessica Holyoke The SL financial market was roiled today by news that the Ginko Financial Group, owned by Nicholas Portocarrero was attempting to buy a controlling interest in AVIX financials, owned by Investor Allen. After previous reports of Ginko’s inability to cover withdrawals from the “bank”, [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Civics for the Un-Civil
…Or How to Effectively Protest the Second Life Gambling Ban by Carl Metropolitan Linden Lab announced their new “no gambling” policy on Wednesday, and by Thursday afternoon, it had already provoked significant—but misdirected—protests from a normally quiet section of the Second Life population and the dozens lengthy forum threads. Cheers to the protesters and posters [...]
Full StoryIf Its Gambling – It’s Gone
Resident Reaction to LL Gambling Banby Jessica Holyoke know your limits The talk of the metaverse for has been the wednesday afternoon blog post in which the Lindens ban betting machines that rely on a randomly generated numbers to declare a winner – and also banned betting on real-life sporting events. Although the new policy [...]
Full StoryEkkeo Drake – Post 6 Furry
[Today our Post 6 feature is Ekkeo Drake, a super cute Ice Joguani. Be careful here - these pictures might lead some human avatars to take a walk on the wild side - possibly resulting in a permanent transformation. As always, this fabulous pictorial was created by the supreme artist of unabashed avatar art - [...]
Full StoryThe Disneyification of the Second Life
Splashing bleach on SL – metaverse sanitized for your protection by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Your world, your imagination – except for gambling Robin Linden, v.p. for management and community development at Linden Lab, today announced an impressive new plan to sanitize gambling from the Second Life experience. While Robin was careful to point [...]
Full StoryThe Road to the Byte House
All chickens will have pot and steroids Jimbo Quality provides an update on the state of his campaign to become President of Second Life or something. We’re not sure. You won’t be either. by Jimbo Quality, presidential candidate It was troubling to go skipping and whistling past the jugs where we hold the reader comments [...]
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