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Frankenschnail
Chapter I- Dr. Frankenschnail by Happy Trails I’ve had a lot of cases in the big sim, but there is still one that makes me wake in the night in a cold sweat. It’s time I told the story, for my own sanity. We snails have our own med school here in town; a good [...]
Full StorySilence of the Sims
By Kris Dibou, Poet I sit inside my pixeled house made of tortured prims; With headphones off I stare and hear the silence of the sims. I think about the path I took when I was new and green; The lives I’ve touched as carelessly as if I’d never been. Would the joy we felt [...]
Full StoryRevenge of the Snail
by Happy Trails, slick private eye As a snail, I get stepped on a lot. Usually it’s some noob who doesn’t look where they’re going. And yes, I’ve been in a lot of sticky situations. Escagot is quite a dame, though. She stands by me no matter what and doesn’t criticize me for all my [...]
Full StoryIntellectual Property: A Tiny Affair
Who owns the rights to pictures of Tiny avatars? by Kris Dibou an example of the disputed illustrations As I was working on a story for the Herald (regarding a fellow who was writing a children’s book on heart health) including illustrations make from screenshots of Tiny avatars in Second Life, I received this note [...]
Full StorySL and POS Laptops from the Recyling Bin
Cheapskates cheer happy news from Linden Lab by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk According to an e-mail forwarded by an anonymous tipster to the Second Life Herald offices today, Linden staffer Dave Parks has mixed news for the Second Life development community, refusing to support new features on older graphics cards but also saying “cheapskates [...]
Full StoryReturn of the Snail
by Happy Trails, slick private detective Now something had to be done about this french cooking school, and I was just the snail to do it. I opened an office over on 5th street and hired Escargot as my receptionist. Happy Trails, Private Detective. Yeah, that’s me…gumshoe…private dick. I began by hitting every dive and [...]
Full StoryShuless – Episode Eight
The Dimension of Sound by Iona Nikolaidis Alexandra Shu: Did you say you are going to do the voice thing?Iona Nikolaidis: Yeah, I am gonna do itIona Nikolaidis: so I can whisper in your earAlexandra Shu: and I can moan in yours.Iona Nikolaidis: oooohAlexandra Shu: hehe!Iona Nikolaidis: hehe!Alexandra Shu: wow. I wonder how that would [...]
Full StoryA Snail’s Tale
by Happy Trails – survivalist snail There are 10,000 ugly snails in the big sim. I’m one of them- they call me Trails. This is my story. I was out one night, minding my own business; hanging with my best girl, Escargot. Pretty little french snail. I’ve been working on her a long time, and [...]
Full StoryShuless – Episode Seven
Smart Chicks are Hawt by Iona Nikolaidis So meeting Alex and getting hit on by her was a welcome, welcome development in Iona’s SL. It gave Iona a reason to go into SL beyond going into the Brew, playing “So who’s a man?” and harassing Newbs in sex Sims. When Alex told me she was [...]
Full StoryShuless – Episode Six
Cyrano by Iona Nikolaidis Alex and Iona were involved for a few weeks before the idea of pulling back the curtain came up. Other avatars I had met in SL asked me for photos of “myself” before I met Alex. I brushed them aside, telling them some variation of “Second Life and Real Life are [...]
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