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Which SL Software is Best? – 4 Viewers Reviewed
An expert’s guide to SL client software – including the Nicholaz Beresford options4 great ways to a better SL experience! by JayR Cela, SL viewer connoisseur After living in the Second Life metaverse for 2 years, I have seen quite a few changes take place. Sometimes it seems to me the Lindens are hell bent [...]
Full StoryJimbo Quality Enhances Leadership Image
Jimbo buys presidential quality hair by Jimbo Quality After my last article, I sensed that there was something missing from my campaign to become President of Second Life. I sensed that the people had expectations of me that I wasn’t meeting. My team hit the streets and conducted extensive research to find out what my [...]
Full StorySecond Life Geisha Gardens: Get your Geisha On
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting a place in Second Life via Cherry Tokyo called the Geisha House. If you wish to experience a great, culturally subversive build in second life, definitely check this place out. When I teleported in, I was immediately amazed with the [...]
Full StoryHe’s Baaaaaack! The Return of Gideon Television.
“The last thing I remember, I was running for the door….” That was eight months ago, at the Aloft. The fog clears, and memory comes streaming back to me, gushing across my eyes like an enthusiastic actress in a hard-to-believe-it’s-real stag loop. But as the drugs finally wane, I begin to question. Where am I? [...]
Full StoryForbes WoW Player Talkin’ Smack On Second Life
Will SL be the first virtual world to fail? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk WoW player Dave Ewalt says SL players are losers The iMojo wire’s inter-world taunting alarm went off this morning – and with good reason. After sitting through a couple ads in the Forbes video clip here, and some blather about [...]
Full StoryExclusive Pix from the Developer Grid: SL’s New Zone Concepts Interface
The next version of SL? by Pixeleen Mistral, food critic Zone Concepts Interface: brighten the corners I considered having another glass of wine while waiting for the wild coho salmon filet slathered in finely chopped fresh organic parsley to finish steaming over a what I hoped would become a Grey Goose vodka and sicilian blood [...]
Full StoryNew Game – Sentinel 2.0
by Onder Skall I’ve received an urgent transmission and need your help! Beware the pink pony-tailed menace! BEGIN TRANSMISSION 1 (07.31.07). S.O.S. – S.O.S. – IBMCODESTATION is breached. Infiltrator appears to be horrible pink beastwith devastating pony-tails. Our defender, SENTINEL, is defeated –broken in four and scattered across Second Life. [See attached movie.]You are our [...]
Full StoryThe Battle of Sanchon
[The nautical brigands of Sanchon sim are a violent, bloodthirsty, and literary group given to celebrating their epic battles and mêlées in word and song. Here is warrior poet/pirate Kris Dibou's latest work. - the Editrix] The Battle of Sanchon Through mist covered seas with sails unfurledIn the wee hours in this part of the [...]
Full StoryNew York Times, Dream Houses, and SL
by Espresso Saarinen Shopping in SL is not quite like RL Yesterday’s New York Times had a very positive article about Second Life, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/09/garden/09second.html that helps explain the appeal of the metaverse to an audience unfamiliar with the concept. Instead of sex and gambling, or the mega-corporate flopping while trying to duplicate RL marketing in [...]
Full StoryIs the FIC Fading?
Smack Talking Blingtards say “We da Shiz Now!” by Urizenus Sklar Last month, while I was surfing the numerous SL Blingtard Blogs, I came across a very interesting discussion on Verbal Stew, a blog run by SL denizens JellyBean Madison and HawksRock Gunawan. JellyBean raised the question: is there now or was there ever a [...]
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