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Same Offender, Different Alt
There is nothing quite like being abused for writing a news report on an assault by Katrina Eales So, at the risk of raising the ire of the misogynists who criticised me for having the temerity to write about having been virtually assaulted and shot in my most recent report, I now feel bound to [...]
Full StoryResidents Hail 24×7 Linden Hair Presence In-World
Exclusive interview with Walker Linden’s hairpiece by Mariner Trilling A hair in the forest As Linden Lab reduces in-world support, a new presence service offers the citizens of Second Life twenty-four hour access to the game gods, or a partially rezzed Linden anyway. Amongst the stately Linden builds in the heart of the mainland lying [...]
Full StoryJimbo’s Halloween Treehouse of Horror
by Jimbo Quality Jimbo in grayface costume I decided to go Trick or Treating this year. I figured it was a good way to combine running for President with the annual scam for free candy. I could go door to door, meet some people, shake some babies and kiss some hands. And get free candy. [...]
Full StoryCSI:NY Shrinks By 93%
Electric Sheep in-world service workers out of work – CSI:NY downsizes to 32 sim by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk A virtual recession may threaten the metaverse, as service workers hired to meet and greet noobies suffered mass layoffs today. The layoffs are part of a significant downsizing in the number of CSI:NY sims – [...]
Full StoryThe Office – SL’s Coach Potato Onslaught Continues
Metaverse shark jumping is the latest television craze by Jessica Holyoke Dwight’s avatar Dwight Even if you don’t watch CSI:NY, you might have known about their episode dealing with Second Life last week. But you might have missed another television show that went onto the Grid. The Office, the NBC American Version, also visited the [...]
Full StoryThe Chimera Scene in SL: Shemales
So what do men want? by Aurel Miles According to an article in the February 2001 Journal of Sex Research, 78 per cent of heterosexual men’s sexual fantasies involve a person who has never been their sexual partner. That seemingly high number does not mean men don’t fantasize about their partners, that is in addition [...]
Full StoryPenance Sautereau – Post 6 Grrrrl
[Note from Justine- I was wandering around Book Island one day and this vision of brilliant purple and cream caught my eye. I looked closer and saw it was a gorgeous creature named Penance Sautereau. She is beautiful in all ways and I hope my pictures do her justice.] Penance Sautereau (as written by her [...]
Full StorySL Business Embraces CSI:NY – Players Shrug
Television viewers yawn, move on with first life by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk CSI:NY adotped by native SL businesses Responding to the CBS-funded Second Life hypervent for CSI:NY, in-world entrepreneurs are now using CSI search terms to help promote their largely sex-based businesses. Querying the Second Life search tool for CSI yields a number [...]
Full StoryHerald Celebrates Self, Book Publication, With Party November 3
We at the Herald always argue that there’s nothing virtual at all about virtual worlds, and now we have proof: Neatly bookended by two book covers and sitting on my desk here at the Herald’s Silicon Ghetto offices is a very physical early copy of the book the metaverse has been waiting for, The Second [...]
Full StoryCookie Cutter Crime Wave
CSI:NY – Massively Repetitious Online Roleplay by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk CSI sims come in packs of 4 Residents braced themselves for a spree of identical crimes scheduled to occur Wednesday, courtesy of CBS television. The lumbering old-media dinosaur will be promoting – on television, no less! – the opportunity for coach potatoes to [...]
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