Linden Land Stats Coverup Enters 5th Month

Lab too embarrassed to publish land data?by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk In February, Linden Lab halted publication of resident land “ownership” statistics after what is believed to be thousands of regions were returned by players reeling from October’s surprise OpenSpace price increase. In the aftermath of the negative economic news and removal of the [...]

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Support Virtuality — Help Game A Netflix Popularity Contest!!!

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer The Netflix “Find Your Voice film competition” is a great new game where everyone can participate by forming gangs to vote for the independent film maker that best represents their community and interests. Consider this a more positive version of the gang abuse report used in Second Life to get [...]

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Op/Ed: Who is Being Edged Out?

by Jessica Holyoke As Zindra edged closer to completion, one of my Feminist groups popped up saying that now was the time to remove rape from Second Life, or at least its advertisement or feature in Groups.  They said now was the time to focus on how rape is a violent crime against women.  The [...]

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Metaplace Founder Raph Koster Chats Up Linden Lab Co-Founder Cory Ondrejka

The hairy edge of augmented reality colliding with virtual worlds by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk At a much anticipated game god gabfest yesterday, Raph Koster and Cory Ondrejka neatly avoided the controversy over Metaplace male's second-class sit animations – possibly the most vital issue facing the metaverse today – by standing throughout the event. [...]

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Senban Babii — Post 6 Grrrl

[Senban Babii is, to my knowledge, the only Post 6 Girl to get hit by a train during her shoot. She was there on the tracks, she saw it coming, she threatened to haunt me if it hit her and then it hit her. Later in the shoot she accidentally started an animation that caused [...]

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Pornosophy and Philip Linden – The Renaissance of Porn Part 2

by Bunny Brickworks She called and they all followed. Loglady Loon is one of the mostbanned non-griefing avatars in SecondLife. She is highly disputed, eitherloved or hated and the creative mastermind behind Freak Show. The firstexhibition of Freak Show was called Beauty vs. Paranoia and all SL artists wereinvited to participate by simply handing in [...]

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Sim Boundary White Line Fever – Bad Roads in Zindra

by Suzie Skybeam In Second Life, crossing a boundary between sims is slow, and, to be honest, a bit buggy. So most designers create their builds so that the sim boundaries are in places where there will be as few people as possible crossing across them, or where people won't mind a few seconds of [...]

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Locks of Love — Hair Fair 2009

Four sims and 134 hair designers for the next two weeks by Tenshi Vielle Hair Fair 2009 has successfully kicked off! Another year of raising L$ to donate to Locks of Love, a public non-profit organization that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children in the United States and Canada under age 18 suffering from long-term [...]

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PhotoLife Drama In Second Life

You mean I need permission to sell your Flickr photos in SL? by Tenshi Vielle Besides nameless SLobrities showing up at SL6B friday evening, the talk of SL6B has been claims that PhotoLife's recently violated the Flickr standards – and Darkley Aeon's artistic rights. The back story:  Darkley Aeon was using PhotoLife's stage system – [...]

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SLB6 Is a Crypto Copycat

Mysterious rot13 and secret decoder rings at SL birthday party by Tenshi Vielle SL6B is a copycat! Some darn robots copied Gigs Taggart's Shanti encoded promotion from last year for the Meerkat viewer, but twisted it, turned it, put it up on its side and included lots of fun puzzles – including a slider! Resident [...]

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