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Auctioning Off My Illegitimate Spawn At BidSL
Love for sale to highest bidder by Onder Skall, former Unicorn daddy Yesterday at the First Friday technology expo we saw some incredible inventions, but one in particular had the power to change the way we buy and sell things in Second Life. Through BidSL you can put things up for auction quickly and easily, [...]
Full StoryBanking in Second Life Is Not Totally Ginko’ed
L$ space buck banking in the post-Ginko Financial era by Jessica Holyoke The recent upheaval over Ginko Financial’s failure overshadowed other reports of the SL financial sector, so after the bank run and bond conversion, I decided to investigate the other banks in SL. What I found was surprising. serious L$ investors ponder metaverse banking [...]
Full StoryWhich 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 StoryOur Heros Are Dead
Content creators feel the pain — Electric Sheep Cory Edo’s SL lockouts & Enktan Gully’s 2+ months without DMCA satisfaction by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista As many of you know, I tend to ride the fence on issues regarding Linden Labs. Recent events between residents and Lindens have begun to change my mind; I am [...]
Full StoryPixel Sumo Summer Grand Basho
Avatar Sumo Wrestling at its finest! by Ebenezer Pixel Pixel Sumo is having it’s Summer Grand Basho on Monday, 27 August at 6 am, 2 pm and 8 pm at Artificial Isle (174, 89, 26). The basho is three events spread over one day to allow maximum participation by SL citizens around the world. This [...]
Full StoryCelebrity Trollop – Post 6 Grrrl
[Note from Justine- This week it is with great pleasure I bring you one of the great fashionistas of Second Life, Celebrity Trollop. Celebrity is the owner and publisher of Second Style Magazine and Second Style Fashionista Blog, two of the most widely read publications in Second Life - that also makes her my boss, [...]
Full StoryWhat’s the Harm?
by Onder Skall This story began when I was directed to an essay over at the SLLU blog entitled "What’s The Harm?". Basically it was a review of Second Life’s more hardcore sexual enterprises and a little walk down "Hard Alley", with the general message being that real harm was coming from it all. I [...]
Full StorySecond Life Stability Numbers Look Grim
24 Lindens work part time on 5% of the problem – what is everyone else doing? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Not WorkingOnIt Linden – 99% of the server bugs are safe The 5041 residents who signed an open letter to Linden Lab asking for virtual world stability ahead of new features may not [...]
Full StoryKristina Dell Can’t Get the Box Off Her Head.
Time magazine joins SL haters by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista I’ve been rather annoyed with Time magazine the past few days. Icracked open an issue to read the interview with Drew Carey, and thenseveral pages in I was assaulted with an article about Second Life -illustrated by some horrible mash up of a Second Life [...]
Full StoryHave a Heart!
SL organ donation moves beyond “Kidney Thief Bathtub” by Jessica Holyoke Organ Donation means many things to different people. To some, it is just an option while getting your driver’s license. For others, it is a profession that requires empathy, medical knowledge and the ability to chose who gets an organ from a transplant list. [...]
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