Power to the SLitizens!: Here Come the SL Anarchists!

The Second Life Anarchists, also known as the Durruti Group (after Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti) have a cause and they have a manifesto (reprinted below the fold). But my favorite part of the manifesto is the following parenthetical remark: While we laud LL for their foresight, and technical achievement in bringing SL to be, and [...]

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Metaverse 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 [...]

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Thrown to the Wolves: A Newbie Discovers Yiffing.

[This article originally appeared in the in-world magazine Players, published by Second Life uberwoman Marilyn Murphy. Some names have been changed to protect the yifficent. If you are (i) at work or (ii) under 18 or (iii) easily offended by things like yiffing FOR GOPOD's SAKE STOP READING NOW!. -- the management] Thrown to the [...]

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Boggle Berger – Post 6 Man

[This week our Post 6 Man is Boggle Berger - a custom avatar maker and weapons model in Second Life, as photographed by the supreme mistress of avatar art - Marilyn Murphy - the photographer/visionary behind Players, SL’s in-world erotica magazine. Boggle says he has been banned in more places than he can remember - [...]

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Sign-Extortionist Masons Help Coldwell Banker into Second Life

Mason and sign extortionist Chrischun Fassbinder, notorious for the Mr. Lee’s Hong Kong signs, and Ancient Shriner, another spinning sign-griefer, bring RL real estate firm Coldwater Banker to SL. Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Oh, no, here we go again. Remember how Philip told us that when big business came to Second Life, that [...]

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Op/Ed: Contemplating Second Life’s Demise

by Onder Skall, courtesy of SLGames This just has to be said. The Herald recently featured an announcement about the YearlyKos Convention using 8 sims with 4 more set aside as backups. Many of us read that and thought: “Oh, ok, I might actually be able to go to this event without the sim crashing.” [...]

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Shock! Philip Linden Invites Plastic Duck to Apply for Job at Linden Lab

What happens when notorious griefer Plastic Duck (aka Patrick Sapinski) inquires about the job of CTO Jedi at Linden Lab? Behold: Hi Patrick, thanks for the contact! I don’t think you are a fit for the operations role, but you might want to apply for one of the engineering positions, from the description of your [...]

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SL 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 [...]

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Second 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 [...]

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SL 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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