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Unstable Platform Rocks SL Markets?
Bank run on Ginko Financial, Dreamland fingers Linden Lab for unstable grid by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Dollars spent in Second Life – as tracked by Reuters Residents who play the fictional financial markets in Second Life were hard pressed to decide if the precipitous drop in in-world spending since Thursday is a rational [...]
Full StoryIf Its Gambling – It’s Gone
Resident Reaction to LL Gambling Banby Jessica Holyoke know your limits The talk of the metaverse for has been the wednesday afternoon blog post in which the Lindens ban betting machines that rely on a randomly generated numbers to declare a winner – and also banned betting on real-life sporting events. Although the new policy [...]
Full StoryWeb of Berzerk Squids Guard SL
LL does not not study history – prefers to repeat it by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Unruly squids have created problems for Linden Lab in the past, and the beasts from the deep seem to have surfaced once again – inside the Second Life client. This morning attempts at entry to Linden Lab’s alleged [...]
Full StoryThe Disneyification of the Second Life
Splashing bleach on SL – metaverse sanitized for your protection by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Your world, your imagination – except for gambling Robin Linden, v.p. for management and community development at Linden Lab, today announced an impressive new plan to sanitize gambling from the Second Life experience. While Robin was careful to point [...]
Full StoryThe Road to the Byte House
All chickens will have pot and steroids Jimbo Quality provides an update on the state of his campaign to become President of Second Life or something. We’re not sure. You won’t be either. by Jimbo Quality, presidential candidate It was troubling to go skipping and whistling past the jugs where we hold the reader comments [...]
Full StoryFashion in Fuschia – Paper Couture Fall 07 Show
Tenshi smiles at the best fashion show yet in SL by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista The Paper Couture Sisters: House of Lu Welcome to the Paper Couture Fall 07 show, one of the most fun events to happen in Second Life in a while. Held on Friday in the Fuschia sim with enabled voice chat, [...]
Full StoryHeartun Breaker Leaving SL Herald
HELP WANTED: metaverse reporter / love&sex&advice columnist by Pixeleen Mistral, managing editrix My new iMojo phone was buzzing insistently where I left it on the granite blocks near the waterfront in Sanchon sim. That whole iPhone thing is so last week’s news now – these days you want to be rocking an iMojo. The iMojo [...]
Full StoryAre Furries Doomed?
Fallout from enforcing bans on “Broadly Offensive” behavior may threaten furry avatars by Cinnamon Twist, spicy reporter Can furries yiff without being offensive? Great Britain had many rules on the books for many years that it didn’t enforce in the American colonies. They were there, sure, but they were largely ignored. When Britain started to [...]
Full StoryThe Bare Facts: Nudism in Second Life
by Lisae Boucher [After the Herald's recent story on closer scrutiny by Linden Lab of images that might be considered "broadly offensive," we were contracted by Lisae Boucher (mentioned in the article), who asked to weigh in on a related issue: the practice of non-sexual nudism in Second Life. Here, she looks at how the [...]
Full StoryMr. FlipperPA Peregrin’s “Invention”
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Barney Boomslang reports that some of the scary-smart brains behind the Second Life Community Conference (SLCC) have made an astounding breakthrough in virtual world technology – and have applied for a patent on an amazing “invention”. Stop the virtual tabloid presses!! According to a number of reports, Mr. FlipperPA [...]
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