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Lab Promotes Reuters Abandoned SL Offices as Hot Spot
Nothing more interesting in Second Life than dead corporate islands by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk no room to showcase residents’ work — Reuters ghost town is featured Linden Lab apparently feels its business interests are best served by highlighting the abandoned “Thomson Reuters” virtual news island as a “Hot Spot” — despite nearly non-existent [...]
Full StoryGossip, Rumors, and Cooking School
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer and professional cooking student rumors and gossip gathered from generally reliable alt accounts Pixeleen dashed out of the Herald offices saying something about secret preparations for the SL Herald 5th year anniversary party later this month — and could I deal with the tips and gossip column? I didn’t mind [...]
Full StoryMicrosoft’s Mundie: Photosynthetic World OK, User-Created — No Way!
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Speaking at MIT’s Emerging Technology conference, Microsoft egghead Craig Mundie said the 3D spatial web will be photorealistic and made by automatically creating models from pictures taken in the real world — according to Ian Lamont’s report in The Industry Standard. While there are certainly uses for a reality-based [...]
Full StoryWill SexBed Dispute Lead to Nuclear Conflict?
Angry furs plot revenge – Stroker Serpentine ejects all users from SexGen Users Group – a Serpentine alliance with fur leader Nexxus Ambassador? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk “Stop freaking out like rats on acid and actually find out what can be done to HELP corsi” – Almira Leopold Harsh words were barked, squeaked, [...]
Full StoryThe Great Goon Holocaust of 2006 Anniversary Observed
by Pixeleen Mistral, Subrealism Affairs desk Outside Hurfzateer HQ in the W-hat’s sim “what”, a solemn vigil was held Friday September 19th, to observe the second anniversary of the great goon holocaust of 2006. A small crowd gathered near the grave sites, and took a few moments from running “talk like a pirate day” animations [...]
Full StoryWrestling in SL
Real girl catfights, theatre, and eroticism by aurel Miles There’s going to be a showdown Sports is one aspect of SL that has always baffled me. Writing about sex in Flatland, one is always mindful of the old cliché that the largest sex organ is between the ears. In my 18 months here in Flatland [...]
Full StoryVirtual Sex Industry Mud Wrestling Continues
Corsi Mousehold suspended for “disclosure” after posting SexGen contract chatlog in-world?SL Sexbed Industry’s Dirty Laundry — Part 3 by Pixeleen Mistral, Irrational Affairs desk Just how messy the SexGen trademark disagreement between Stroker Serpentine and Corsi Mousehold has grown became clear when my iMojowire 3g went off this afternoon. Corsi Mousehold had located a screenshot [...]
Full StoryMob Boss Zito Corleone Missing, Presumed Banned
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Zito Corleone – none found The gang war between the Nicholas mafia and wise guy associates of Zito Corleone may have taken a deadly turn. Mafia Don Zito Corleone has suddenly gone missing from the Second Life people search – apparently the result of some sort of account ban [...]
Full StorySecond Life Targeted for Shutdown as a “Game of Skill”?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The US House of Representatives Financial Services Committee hearings on H.R. 6870 today have some residents of Second Life concerned that the metaverse could become collateral damage in the war on online gambling, with suggestions that “games of skill” could be targets for regulation – most notably at the [...]
Full StoryAmazon.com: Is Castronova Book Really About Online Whores?
by Idoru Wellman, literary cooking student Amazon using sex to sell books? Based on Amazon.com’s current listing of Edward Castronova’s latest literary effort as “Exodus to the Virtual World: Ho Online Fun Is Changing Reality”, it appears the Second Life online escort service business really is having an impact on reality. Certainly a number of [...]
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