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Obama Puppet In Teh Metaverse
audio drop outs, no Q&A from SL, and Barak’s B-cup by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk By now I should know better – but there is always the chance there will be an interesting and effective real life political event held in Second Life – someday. That day was not Saturday. John Edwards supporter – [...]
Full StoryPixeleen Mistral Liquidates SL Holdings
Former Editrix moving to Croquet By Eloise Pasteurized MarkTwain White and Pixeleen Mistral both heading in new directions In the wake of her retirement from the Herald, Pixeleen Mistral has sold her SL holdings – consisting primarily of two mainland sims – to MarkTwain White. Mr. White announced that effective immediately all pirates are banned [...]
Full StorySpring Fabulous Fashion Forecast
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista I was reading a RL magazine the other day (that shall remain nameless!)… (shocker, right? I was reading a RL magazine? gah!) … and anyway, it contained an article covering the new trends this coming spring/summer. Their picks? Polka dots!Metallics!Whites!Blacks!Blacks AND whites!Stripes! In other words? “We don’t know what the [...]
Full StoryH&R Block Heads
by Onder Skall Just do me, baby! H&R Block recently announced the construction of H&R Block Island. The story goes that SL residents (at least, those from the US) can swing on by and get some free tax advice. “Fifty years ago, we changed the tax preparation landscape by opening up our first office on [...]
Full StorySL Combat Expo Underway
by Onder Skall, courtesy of SL Games The SL Combat Expo 2007 has officially launched and will be running until April 2nd. This is a great opportunity to see some of the cooler weaponry that Second Life has to offer and ask questions of the weaponsmiths themselves. From the official release: William Dalgleish, Project Manager [...]
Full Story“No Deal With CB,” Sez LL; Purple Land’s “A Bug”
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Linden Lab did not encourage Coldwell Banker (CB), the real-life real estate company, to come into Second Life, John Zdanowski, LL’s chief financial officer, known inworld as “Zee Linden,” told the Herald this weekend. Asked if there was any contact, encouragement, or special tier breaks, Zee replied, “Absolutely [...]
Full StoryMetaverse Closed For Repair – Again
yiffing, gambling, and griefing delayed for a second time Saturday by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk The metaverse was shut down saturday for 40 minutes due to a few minor infelicitous features – that occurred for the second time in one day despite beings “resolved” earlier. Residents reported problems with – crossing sim boundaries- finding [...]
Full StorySL PR Disasters Game
King Philip needs help with headlines by Onder Skall We had a lot of fun with our last crowd sourced game, so logically I thought I’d better keep thinking up new ones until we’ve run the idea into the ground and everybody’s sick to death of it. No points for being the first person in [...]
Full StorySecond Life Client Is A Virus – Sophos
Pirates may have to find another way to download FF Meta Book font by Curious Rousselot, Magical Affairs desk Lewis Page reported in The Register today that “Sophos to bar Second Life on work computers“. The article itself was actually a fairly high level summary of Sophos Anti-Virus’ ability to block most MMORPG software from [...]
Full StorySL Makes Meta Fonts Free For 4 Million+ Residents
Should be Linden Lab be sharing the love this way? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Typeface geeks may be pleasantly surprised to find that the Second Life software includes a pair of commercial (not freeware) TrueType fonts which are trivial to extract from the SL software and install into Macintosh or PCs for general [...]
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