Caroline Southmoor — Post 6 Grrrrl

[Again, my luck holds, and Post 6 finds beautiful models without my having to leave the house. One of our Post 6 Models from a few weeks ago told me about this week's Post 6 Grrrl, and my wife, who also knows her, introduced us. Caroline Southmoor is as kind and outgoing as she is [...]

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Second Life 7th Birthday

Fake cake & hot date with the fortune teller  by Pappy Enoch, Famous Fake Banker & Star Reporter   I done up and gone to the 7th birfday party for Second Life. I heared from Mistophur Au that the pictures o’ nekkid gals was tossed out, but you knows SL. Who needs pictues? I’d find [...]

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Philip Linden’s LoveMachine Sprays Hates All Over Second Life Viewers

A call for bids titled “Create a custom SecondLife client for LoveMachinists” at VWorker.com will certainly create a fine frisson among Linden Lab fans desperate for good news – until anticipation turns to horror as Philip Linden’s LoveMachine unexpectedly runs backwards and sprays hate all over current Second Life client software. This does not seem [...]

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Op/Ed: How Supply Linden Games The L$ Currency Exchange

by IntLibber Brautigan Under a normal market, where there is a healthy flow of cash in and out of a given economy, those operating currency exchanges make significant profits in ways most people do not realize. With the LindeX, for example, the spread, i.e. the distance between the lowest sell price vs the highest buy [...]

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Financial Wizard to Prop Up Linden Dollar

No more Ups and Downs with First Bank of Enoch Holler by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Financial Desk There are storm clouds on the horizon of Second Life, given recent instability with Linden Lab’s virtual currency, massive layoffs at the firm, and CEO Mark Kingdon’s panic inducing reassuring words that the ship is sinking for all [...]

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L$ Exchange Panic – Spacebux Value Slides!!!

On the Lindex currency exchange, the value of the  L$ fell sharply yesterday as the average L$ per  $1.00 USD rose to 279.76 – well above the recent average of around L$ 262. With price levels not seen in over 4 years, the market panic led to a statement from M Linden – "recent weeks [...]

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Don’t Like Your Voice? There’s a feature for that

For residents logging in since Friday, there was a new feature added to the SL platform; voice morphing.  By downloading the new alpha test viewer 2.1 – which the Lab promises has no spyware – residents are able to test and purchase subscriptions for a packet that includes various voice modifications.   For example, if [...]

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It Has to Be Said: Time Beats Money?

I have been taking a break from Second Life lately by playing the MMO Allods Online.  Its a free to play MMO similar to World of Warcraft developed by Russians.  Seeing how their players respond to a situation is very telling on how MMO’s and virtual worlds might be paid for in the future.  World [...]

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Cayce Urriah — Post 6 Grrrl

[Occasionally Post 6 Grrrls are recommended to me by friends, occasionally by readers, and sometimes by the boss, as was the case with Cayce Urriah, which only serves to underscore that Pixeleen has great taste. Cayce was a joy to work with, and a lot of fun to photograph. Without further ado, I get out [...]

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Draft of M Linden’s E-mail Found In Recycling Bin

Message from The Corner Office: This Ain’t No Love Machine by Journey Yellowlist, Investigative Reporter M Linden Greetings, Thursday was a challenging but historic and important day for Linden Lab, and it completely blew my golf score, too, thinking about the angry mob soon coming for me. We undertook a gutting of our best talent [...]

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