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H&R Block Heads
by Onder Skall Just do me, baby! H&R Block recently announced the construction of H&R Block Island. The story goes that SL residents (at least, those from the US) can swing on by and get some free tax advice. “Fifty years ago, we changed the tax preparation landscape by opening up our first office on [...]
Full StorySL Makes Meta Fonts Free For 4 Million+ Residents
Should be Linden Lab be sharing the love this way? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Typeface geeks may be pleasantly surprised to find that the Second Life software includes a pair of commercial (not freeware) TrueType fonts which are trivial to extract from the SL software and install into Macintosh or PCs for general [...]
Full StorySCANDAL!!! SL’s Next Top Model… Has a Twin?
Copycat drama in the SL fashion world – SHOCK! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista models from the “tilde” group BooBooKittie Haight, proprieter and brains behind Catwalk City, has a problem. Her brainchild, the “SL Next Top Model” (SLNTM) contest, has a competitor with exactly the same name plus a tilde: “ ~SL Next Top Model~”. [...]
Full StoryResidents of 8 Sims Homeless – Is Land Scamming or Illness to Blame?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk What appears to be one of the largest virtual land business failures ever threw residents of at least 8 sims out of their homes today – as the Azure Islands land company did a repo-man job on sims owned by Azure Islands but managed by lilly Margretts. Sources claim [...]
Full StorySamwer Brothers of Germany take 10% Stake in Anshe Chung Studios
The Samwer hotties brothers The German newspaper Frankfurther Allgemeine is reporting that the Samwer brothers of Germany have acquired a 10% stake in the virtual real estate and metaverse development company Anshe Chung Studios. The Samwer brothers — Oliver, Alexander and Marc — gained their claim to fame when they started an online auction site [...]
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Full StoryIs Ginko’s Alleged Ponzi Game About to Implode? Will Linden Lab be Held Liable?
The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank [...]
Full StoryHell is Other People: The LA Times Gets to the Bottom of SL’s Growing Pains
If you are coming from the Feb. 22 LA Times article… I dunno…just know that we really really hate the Lakers. Or as we call them, the Hollywood Fakers. If you already read the article, then let me save you some trouble, and suggest that you use this link for sex, cybersex, and beyond. If [...]
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Full StorySecond Life Economics Puffery
The Register hating on Second Life by Curious Rousselot, virtual correspondent Shaun Rolph at The Register dissects the phony economics of Second Life and how the mainstream media has latched onto SL as “The Next Big Thing”(tm). Rolph concludes that based on churn rate statistics provided by Linden Lab, the population of returning residents is [...]
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