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Why the SL Avatar Mesh Fails
by Tenshi Vielle, fabulous fashionista slmesh.jpg – Courtesy of Annyka Beckers, creator of Blowpop Skins Inan amazing feat of web-stumbling, it has been revealed that 3D mesheswork best when they do NOT contain triangles. Triangles, due to theirodd nature when subjected to division createbumps and humps in the avatar's appearance. We, of course, see thisnearly [...]
Full StoryEx-Second Life Newspaper SLNN Now Covering Golden Grrrls?
Metaverse loses another news source as SLNN changes ownership and direction by Tenshi Vielle SLNN's coverage of the Second Life world has gone missing and is now feared dead. For nearly two weeks, the formerly Second Life-oriented news service's web site has been unresponsive. Readers attempting to access current or past articles are greeted with [...]
Full StoryCrowdsourcing Grief in Second Life’s Remembrance Garden
Will residents remember the dead in Linden-approved style? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk I join several scantily clad residents in Linden Lab's new "Remembrance Garden" and click on Flower Dispenser 55. The dispenser replies in soothing tones, "Please type the name of the person to commemorate. The person must be a SL avatar name. [...]
Full StoryWrite About the Herald, Get a Pulitzer Prize
by Urizenus Sklar, reporting from the Zac Efron party tent at the Pulitzer awards. The Herald is pleased to report that Jim Schaefer and some of his colleagues at the Detroit Free Press have received a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Kwame Kilpatrick affair. What we media insiders know is that while Schaefer [...]
Full StoryMetaplace Gift Economy Balloons – Subscription Fees Loom
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Adz is the lucky recipient of three gift balloons Gift balloons and subscription fee discussions have appeared in Metaplace during the last week – signs of an impending move to an open beta and broader access to the web-browser based world construction kit. Last week, the game gods of [...]
Full StoryIt’s 4/20 — Do You Know Where Your Medical Marijuana Is?
Part time griefer and journalist advocates for medical marijuana By Doctor Ocularis, Herald Medical Desk photo stolen from Metro Spirit Today being April 20 (aka 4/20) it is only fitting that we link to a story about weed. In this case we link to a story by Joshua McCracken in the Augusta Georgia Metro Spirit. [...]
Full StoryFrom EVE: More TITANic Fail
Another $10,000 USD Down the Toilet by Urizenus Sklar, at the He's Everywhere Desk. Recently we showed you the epic joy that goons and other humanoids can feel at the (permitted) destruction of $10,000 in assets in EVE Online. It involved the recording of the first destruction of a Titan. Forgot? – here is the [...]
Full StoryAnother MMO Bites the Dust. RIP Shadowbane
Details via Massively. Of course it's not like no one saw this coming. –Uri
Full StoryWhich SL Celebrity Inspired This RL Avatar?
This Second Life Avatar created by Shawn Wheeling was inspired by which SLebrity? select one answer o M Lindeno T Lindeno Z Lindeno Hamlet Lindeno Philip Lindeno Plastic Ducko Gene Replacemento Luc Bessono Leon The Professional
Full StorySHOCK! Sky News Closes Second Life News Bureau!!!
by Sigmund Leominster The Prophets of Doom can wallow in the demise of yet another major newscorporation's exit from the Second Life virtual world. Britain's Sky News has announcedthat it is formally closing down its SL island and moving to a "new'Immersive Workspaces' platform in Second Life where employees meet toexchange ideas and do business." [...]
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