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Robin Harper Linden Farewell In Dublin – Friday 13th
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk This morning, Sitearm Madonna dropped off a press release at the Herald offices announcing "Bad Luck for Linden Lab Day" on friday the 13th — a farewell to Robin Harper Linden Reception at the Dublin 2 sim. The festivities will include a meet 'n greet and live music from [...]
Full StoryMeta Linden Talks Land Statistics
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk As Mitch Wagner and Cybergrrl Oh regaled the audience at today’s Copper Robot gabfest with tales of social network marketing from the frozen tundra of Alaska, it dawned on me that I was standing next to the spider that creates the land and economic statistics for Second Life – [...]
Full StoryOrphaned Raw Statistics Page Found!
Land statistics “temporarily unpublished” by Linden Lab Two other statistics page still missing – presumed dead by Pixeleen Mistral – National Affairs desk Authorities at the IETF Missing Web Pages bureau were relieved to see the orphaned “Economic Statistics (Raw Data Files)” page had been reunited with the rest of the Second Life web site [...]
Full StoryPrivate Eyes For Hire in SL
by Alessandra Narayan It all started due to a gap in SL’s service industry – and some resident's need to monitor other avatar's actions – but ended up becoming a profitable business. Now anyone can hire private detective to watch other avatar's moves, following them and filing elaborate. precise reports – a definite benefit for [...]
Full StoryFree Happiness Therapy – For You!
by Alessandra Narayan Have you ever heard of Sunshine Therapy Gardens? This is a place where you can listen to birds, nature sounds – and talk through your problems – relaxing and finding the answers you need, under the guidance of RJ Muni, a Netherlander licensed psycho/hypnotherapist decided to help people live better lives, especially [...]
Full StoryMeet Tommy “The Patron” Parrot
A man dedicated to elevate SL art and cultureby Alessandra Narayan Do you remember studying “la renaissance”? In the XIV century, a bit all across Europe, but mostly in beautiful Italy – land of artists as Michael Angelo or Leonardo da Vinci – wealthy men with a taste for art helped sculptors, painters and others [...]
Full StorySHOCK!!! Robin Linden Forced Out Of Lab!!!!!
Was Robin Linden – a resident since 2002 – forced to disclose her super-secret alt as part of M Linden’s public humiliation of the old regime? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Robin Linden (file photo) Immediately after attending today’s Metanomics event, Robin Linden announced that her game god days are over as of February [...]
Full StoryWill Land-Cutting Ban Redeem Jack Linden?
by Curious Rousselot Jack Linden, the Linden in charge ofmaking the mainland more beautiful, has posted an entry on theofficial Linden Blog informing us that the much hated practice of land cuttingmay soon be at an end. In the blog Jack fairly clearly discusses thedefinition of land cutting, "Whenever you see land that has a [...]
Full StoryBarbie <3 Ken — CBC’s SL Exposé
Suburban moms ignore real life families, take imaginary online lovers – film at 11 by Pixeleen Mistral, New Media Studies The plight of struggling interactive improvisational role play artists who chose tosacrifice RL friends and family for 14 consecutive hours ofavatar-enhanced chat is documented in CBC’s Fifth Estate video Strangers in Paradise. While the CBC [...]
Full StoryOpen Sims – Back to the Brave New World
by Alessandra Narayan Alessandra's look in OpenLife Joining the new Open Sims is like starting all over Second Life, which means a ‘noobie’ figure, difficulty in getting it presentable – especially when you’re only allowed to change it after getting a new shape – and various problems, which now seem so distant in SL. [...]
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