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Kristina 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. [...]
Full StoryForbes WoW Player Talkin’ Smack On Second Life
Will SL be the first virtual world to fail? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk WoW player Dave Ewalt says SL players are losers The iMojo wire’s inter-world taunting alarm went off this morning – and with good reason. After sitting through a couple ads in the Forbes video clip here, and some blather about [...]
Full StoryWe Luv Borked SL Betaverse – Every Single Weekend!!!
Blinged-out Mia Linden leaves customer support award up for grabsLinden leadership missing – front line support left twisting in the breeze by Pixeleen Mistral, food critic Volunteers don’t have answers, and neither does Mia Long suffering residents of the Second Life betaverse – a sometimes semi-functional virtual world – enjoyed the by now traditional weekend [...]
Full Story3 weeks in SL – A Photographic Portrait of the Betaverse
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk welcome area – 50% off
Full StoryJaime Wheeler – Post 6 Grrrl
Earlier this week, Marilyn Murphy contacted the Herald offices from a small cafe in south of France to say that her spiritual quest was going well, but it was hard to say exactly how much longer it might go on. With Marilyn off indefinitely sunning herself somewhere on the Cote D’Azure, I turned to the [...]
Full StoryExclusive Pix from the Developer Grid: SL’s New Zone Concepts Interface
The next version of SL? by Pixeleen Mistral, food critic Zone Concepts Interface: brighten the corners I considered having another glass of wine while waiting for the wild coho salmon filet slathered in finely chopped fresh organic parsley to finish steaming over a what I hoped would become a Grey Goose vodka and sicilian blood [...]
Full StoryLove and Love Seats
What do you do when you come home and find a couple humping in your bed? by Wendell Holmer, metaverse home and garden reporter Prim Perfect publisher Saffia Widdershins and a pet In one day, Prim Perfect’s blog got as many hits as the number of magazines sold in the previous month—and three new advertisers [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab’s Metaverse Maths: 1 + 1 = 10
SL must grow constantly to be profitable – a sophisticated Ponzi scheme?3000 servers for 50k simultaneous users – 1/3 of LL’s income from selling new servers each month by Gwyneth Llewelyn, mostly harmless meta-resident We believe Linden Lab is a profitable company, at least since April 2007, because Jeska Linden blundered that out in a [...]
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by Curious Rousselot Residents protest gambling ban August 9th at Linden Village Castle [photo by Argo Pollis ] Gambling Still Available in Second Life Reuters reported on August 14, 2007 that the recently enacted gambling ban in Second Life has not been completely successful.Honest former casino owners are not happy seeing others reap theprofits they [...]
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