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Poof! LL’s Smoke and Mirrors Do Away With Starax Statosky
Starax Statosky is no more! Linden Lab’s magic wand has apparently done away with him. The master scripter, whose own magic wand had become one of the most popular SL diversions over the last six months or so — even being featured by kingpin Philip Linden at a talk at Google — no longer appears [...]
Full StoryTaking a Chance on Chance Takashi
A special profile to benefit the American Cancer Society, by Walker Spaight Chance Takashi “This is The Observatory, my first big build in SL,” Chance Takashi tells me when I meet her in the Caledon Highlands. “Or anywhere, really.” It’s an interesting addendum: the metaverse, for Chance, is broad enough that a “build” could exist [...]
Full StoryThe Six-Fingered Hand – An Interview With Artist DanCoyote Antonelli
by Fiend Ludwig (with photos by DanCoyote Antonelli) “Do you want a table and chair?” he asked me. It was earlier in the year and DanCoyote (DC) Antonelli was preparing the first showing of his art in Second Life, part of Rubaiyat Shatner’s “The Real” at the Ars Virtua New Media Centre, in the Dowden [...]
Full StorySLStats: Is Big Brother Watch-ing?
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs desk SNOOPYbrown’s closest friends: Nobody yet. Only people that you have hung out with for at least an hour are considered your friends.– SLStats.com SLStats.com reveals that SNOOPYbrown has no friends *sniff* Poor, poor SNOOPYbrown Zamboni. Here it is August 1, 2006 and SLStats.com doesn’t think he has any [...]
Full StoryA Double Dose of SecondCast
It’s a double dose of SecondCast today, as the crew brings you not one shiny new episode but, yes, two. In Episode 27, hear SL resident Oz Spade’s take on the recent Second Life Views event, for which Linden Lab flew eight residents to San Francisco to gather their views on the direction of Second [...]
Full StoryGetting Some Tail at the Furry Rent Party
by Daftcoho Callisto It was an entertaining scene, a couple of Saturdays back, when the massive FurNation sim held its “Tail Sale.” Not unlike “dream date” auction fundraisers, the Tail Sale was an opportunity to buy a Furry for services or company, and all of the proceeds went to keep the FurNation sim alive. All [...]
Full StoryThe Sophisticate: Fashion Designer Grace Winnfield
by Emerie Mauriac Grace Winnfield On a random visit to Grace Winnfield’s shop at Pierce (6, 62, 58) [< -- SL link] I met Grace herself, who at the time was less than 60 days in-world but no less impressive a designer for it. Grace came in with a plan, and with obvious talent. As [...]
Full StoryGriefers Take to the Waves at SLSF Cup
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald sports desk Welcome, Griefer– Philip Linden Sailor Espresso Saarinen (pink hair in the foreground) points out two suspected underwater griefers to event security just before being sent into orbit himself. Photo courtesy of Espresso Saarinen. Herald readers have observed that public events in SL always have a the possibility of a [...]
Full StorySL’s Second-Class Citizens Lead a CaddyShack Second Life
by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald sports desk Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a miracle — It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole! It’s in the hole!–Caddyshack (1980) Philip Linden takes advantage of unverified labor during the Holly Kai Ocean Nine’s opening day In [...]
Full StoryCrime Beat: Murder in Blumfield
by J.L. Prudhomme (Special to the Herald) Residents of the Blumfield sim were awakened early last Tuesday morning (EST), the Fourth of July, to the horrific sight of a bloody corpse lying on a vacant lot in their fair neighborhood. The mangled body of Ms. Ava Arrow was found supine on the Linden-grown grass of [...]
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