Archive for 'News from Second Life'

FTC Report to US Congress Finds Explicit Content in Second Life!!!

…or not so much by Sigmund Leominster Your tax dollars have been at work once again in the expert hands of a committee commissioned by Congress and handled by the Federal Trade Commission. This is the same FTC that failed to catch Bernie Madoff’s $65 billion Ponzi scheme, and the same Congress that handed out [...]

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Restrained Life – A Vile Perversion, Masked by a Gentle Name

An alternate Second Life viewer reviewed by Miss Petunia Amaryllis Courtney Taliaferro, Second Life League of Decency Beware, innocents! I had such hopes when I transferred the so-called “Restrained Life Viewer” to my personal computer. I do not use the crass term “download,” since it can have a sexual double-entendre. Once I had installed the [...]

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Kokopelli Racetrack Owner Killed In Copybot Abuse Report Collision!!!

Greg Drayman executed by Linden Lab – racetrack closed by Millennium Sands – pictures courtesy of Caz Fresc The world of Second Life motorsports suffered a severe loss when Greg Drayman, famous race driver and owner of Kokopelli Raceway Park (KRP), was banned from the grid by Linden Lab at the end of November. Greg's [...]

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A View from the Back: The Hard Alley Protest

by Jessica Holyoke As previously reported, as part of the 16 Days against Gender Violence, a variety of groups, SL Left Unity, Feminists, and Stop Violence Against Women, (disclosure: I am a member of the latter two) descended on Second Life perennial popular area Hard Alley in order to protest the rape role play on [...]

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Second Life metaLIFE Market Grows at XStreet’s Expense

by Coke Supply Ever since XStreet was taken over by Linden Lab, there has been a demand for independent sites that offer the same services due to resident fears that Linden Lab would run their site into the ground. Now that the Lab appears to be doing just that with the introduction of their new [...]

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HRH Princess of Yaximixche Starts 90 Day Virtual World Tour

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The Princess of Yaximixche is embarking on an ambitious tour of virtual worlds beyond Second Life from December through February 2010. The tour marks Her Royal Highness's first major public appearances since failing gravely ill during the summer of 2009, according to the Royal Press office. Over the next [...]

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Hard Alley Protestors Issue Press Release

16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence visits Hard Alley in Second Life by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Yesterday, about a dozen ham shaped avatars staged a protest in Hard Alley – a notorious role play sex sim – to warn against the objectification of women in the virtual world of Second Life. Could [...]

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Linden Lab to Volunteers, Small Merchants: Screw You

by Mammon Linden In case you didn't already know it, Second Life wouldn't be anywhere near as cool as it is today if it weren't for our volunteers and small merchants who have vended their creations at low prices. That's why we just fired a bunch of volunteers and taxed the losers who give their [...]

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Egghead Studies Second Life Chickens – Clucks To Shocking Conclusion!!!

The Web Ecology of Sion chicken society explained by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Patrick Davison is part of several performance groups including What We Know So Far and MemeFactory and is also involved with the Web Ecology project at Harvard – exactly the sort of scholar that can bring meaning to the Second Life [...]

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LL To SL Mentors: Your Services Are No Longer Needed

"All official Linden Lab sponsored communication channels related to the Second Life Mentor group will be discontinued" by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desks Citing scalability issues, Linden Lab announced the end of the volunteer Second Life Mentors program on Wednesday evening with a wiki post on wiki.secondlife.com. Some observers were confused by the references to [...]

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