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ELVIS SIGHTED IN HAWAII !
by Budka Groshomme, Science Fiction desk At least four patrons of Hawaii’s island casino, possibly more, stated that they almost definitely glimpsed what might have been Elvis dancing on Saturday night at the Ice Maiden’s Tringo party. “There was no mistaking it,” said Xenia Baggio as she added another enhancement to her avatar and adjusted [...]
Full StoryCardie Mahoney – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: This week our Post 6 Grrrl is infamous Second Life Escort/Supermodel Cardie Mahoney, as photographed by the incomparable Marilyn Murphy - the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine.] How can you improve on someone boiling your entire SL plan down to “some bint of a hoochie escort set up her own temple [...]
Full StoryTaking Wagers: When Will Linden Lab Sell
by Flimflam Edelman at the Puppies, Ponies, and Other Action Desk There is always chitchat in world about the possibility of Linden Lab selling out soon, but now the chitchat is coming from “RL” blogs. Last week PR Marketing guru B.L. Ochman predicted that Second Life would go within three weeks. Two weeks left for [...]
Full StoryDid Official Live Helper Threaten Goons Over Furry Ageplay Report?
Goons Allegedly Threatened with DMCA Action for “Mockery” Don’t fuck with THIS Offical Live Helper. Image via Petey at Something Awful. A recent post on the Something Awful site has exposed the seldom talked about fault lines in the Second Life Community and raised a number of difficult issues. When an earlier post on Something [...]
Full StoryDeveloper Megabucks?
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Prokofy Neva reports on the Second Thoughts blog that he has obtained a leaked e-mail with the results of an independent developer survey conducted by Linden Lab and distributed to a select developers list today. The numbers reported suggest that significant sums are being invested in third party development [...]
Full StoryDuran Duran – Where Art Thou?
concerned Duran Duran fans wonder if the show will go on by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Three and a half months ago – on August 9th – CNet reported the 80s pop group Duran Duran had discovered Second Life and was planning an “exclusive private island” and events – including a concert – in [...]
Full StoryTSO Shocker – Urizenus Sklar Part of Sim Shadow Government
by Pixeleen Mistral, Internal Affairs Unit Anya Ixchel’s interview of Herald founder Urizenus Sklar in SLatenight ends with a shocking revelation – Uri confesses that while in The Sims Online he was a secret part of the Sims Shadow Government – a vigilante group that appointed itself to police the TSO world – and a [...]
Full StoryGet a Life – AgePlay Fun And Games Turn Ugly
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. Heartun Breaker could help you! HEY HEARTUN: I have been playing around in Second Life since 2004 and in that time I’ve had two significant romances. About a year and a half ago, when I was last single, I started exploring AgePlay. I liked the freedom, the role playing [...]
Full StoryPhilcon: Welcome to the Matrix, But You’re Not Sleeping
By Dae Tilling Camaraderie, in a room full of people each shielded behind their own laptop? That was the first oddity that struck me at the Virtual Worlds track of Philadelphia’s annual science fiction convention. For an entire day, panels about virtual worlds were broadcast into Second Life from Philcon. In the seventy years that [...]
Full StorySecond Life Philcon
by Budka Groshomme, Raving Reporter – Science Fiction desk some virtual Philcon attendees check under their chairs for a griefer’s bomb With the sweep of flashing fingers across multiple keyboards the Philadelphia Science Fiction and Fantasy Society Convention’s inaugural Second Life/Real Life panel was underway on Saturday at 0700 PST. This was the second East [...]
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