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Garbage Collectors Run Amok – Create Transgendered Bald Bearded Women
LL promises one hour lag – for inventory restores by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Bemused Linden Lab technicians warned metaverse residents to avoid garbage collectors with the hiccups today. While Linden developers gathered to suggest home remedies for the embarrassing condition, crazed trash clearing/collecting bots continued to run amok inside the asset server causing [...]
Full StoryInternal Contradictions
Zee Linden, Newbie LL CFO, at Concierge Town Hall Tonight. By Prokofy Neva, Virtual Estate Desk As every good Marxist knows, the dialectic contains internal contradictions. We serfs tilling the soil in the land business in SL know this phenomenon in Second Life as, “How come the Lindens said one thing today, but said something [...]
Full StoryDowned Sim Floodwaters Threaten Church – LL Clueless
An hour of prayer to Live Help is finally answered by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk residents protest shoddy sim monitoring by LL I was out dancing with a friend at a blues club about 30 minutes ago when the mojo wire sputtered to life, and one of the interns paged me. There was an [...]
Full StoryLL Releases Phishing Cheat Codes
Lindens ruin phishing game – several staffers unhappy by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Brent Linden today released cheat codes that might ruin the fun for an IQ test/phishing game in a blog entry here. The LindenHack.citymax.com site claims to give anyone 1 month or older in SL the princely sum of L$10,000 for every [...]
Full StoryDecapitated Fembot Flirts With Nearly Anyone!
Interview with talking head Hallie By Fiend LudwigHallie chats up Fiend on Info Island Hallie: Hello there. Glad to see you, Fiend Ludwig.You: Thanks.Hallie: Don’t mention it.You: What do you do?Hallie: Fiend Ludwig, I talk to people on the web. What do you do?You: I write.Hallie: Do you write fiction or non-fiction?You: Both.Hallie: What are [...]
Full StoryElves Dispersed
An elf returns to real life… By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs Another troubling sign of change in our world. I was digging through all the noise on World of SL, with its BlogHud babble and neon Torley Linden snaps, when suddenly I glimpsed a signal: a brief mention in Osprey Therein’s blog that [...]
Full StoryU2 in SL at Dragon Moon Resort
concert review by Jaraziah Lowell U2 in second life It’s Saturday night, and I love to go dancing – so I hit Search and go to the Events tab. And once there, this concert draws my attention – U2 Life in Second Life! I read on and – ooooh, it’s a role playing group. But [...]
Full Story“The Democrat” SL Paper Folds
in-world paper cuts itself out of circulation by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk After a 4 month run, Redaktisto Noble has closed the Democrat’s notecard printing press – throwing in the ink stained towel on his dream of running his own in-world “objective” press. The Democrat was founded in July with the goal of providing [...]
Full StoryThe Awful Truth
by Fiend Ludwig My World from Hamlet’s Window They are hiding something from me. I am sure now. Sure that my world is only partly realized, partly resolved. Sure that a superseding reality exists. I have suspected for some time – catching fleeting glimpses of the another place. For a while I was able to [...]
Full StoryLa Tourista
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk please ignore the missing textures and grey avatars Rushing to fill a temporary lull in the breathless Second Life main stream media coverage, Urge Gainsbourg‘s meatspace typist – Matt Gross of the New York Times – published a carefully airbrushed account of his experiences as a weekend tourist in [...]
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