PaleFire’s Open Letter to Kalel Venkman

Have griefers turned the JLU into a paranoid collective? When I approached Peter Ludlow at the Society of Cinema and Media Studies in May 2010, I never would have guessed that my research would cause so much concern among anti-griefing organizations, and by that, I mean specifically Kalel Venkman.  Here’s why I am writing this [...]

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It Has To Be Said: Pseudo-Realities

As reported here, two teens were sentenced to four years of prison each for using Facebook to incite a riot after UK officials monitored social media.  Prime Minister David Cameron stated that while social medi can be used for good, the same media can also be used for ill and must be monitored and controlled. [...]

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Cross Grid Rally: Amazing 4 Continent Race Across Mainland!!!

20 drivers start, 11 finish after enduring horse farm lag storms, prim litter, region crossings by Nelson Jenkins Cross Grid Rally holds a special significance among Second Life’s racing clique. It was the largest – if not the only – mainland rally race in Second Life’s short history. In August of both 2007 and 2008, [...]

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Interspecies Intermingling on Upswing in Second Life

So the other day my friend BB, and by the way I’ve changed everyone’s name in this whole story, IM’d me and said she wanted to drop by and she had her new boyfriend with her. She popped in and she was with a furry and we’re all like WTF? every girl <3 horses – [...]

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Meeroo Food Supply Safe At Last Thanks To Cordon Sanitaire?

Scammers denied access to sim-edge no-rez exploit Roo sim – the home base for in-world access to vital Meeroo food supplies – is now encircled with a quarantine corridor in hopes of blocking scammers from using an exploit to create objects in unauthorized areas. Will this novel parcel configuration become a “best practice” for those [...]

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Meeroo Scandal No Surprise – LL Hides Behind Privacy Shield

Linden Lab doesn’t fix exploits or provide customer service – it’s business as usual, then? A predictable scandal erupted over the last few days as Meeroos began abandoning their owners to wander the grid in search of food. Meeroos are a popular form of virtual pet that require continual petting and feeding with scripted food [...]

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Natalia and Slave 3 — Post 6 D/s Lifestylers

[Natalia messaged me several weeks ago and asked if I would be willing to feature her and one or two of her slaves. I haven’t featured a couple (or triple) that I can recall, so I thought it might be fun. It was a pleasure working with both Natalia and Slave 3, and it is [...]

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SLCC 2011: Mesh Hair Net Shortages May Threaten Convention

Pixeleen Mistral’s typist to speak at SLCC identity and privacy session Will Linden staff don celebratory mesh hair nets at the Second Life Community Conference to mark the long awaited release of mesh object support for the prim-based virtual world? SL content creators and certain OEM suppliers hope so, and the chances of sighting Linden staff with [...]

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Second Life: Sex, Hair and Dancing!!!

by Debbie So, my friends all like my stories and want me to write about the normal stuff we do. That could get tedious, but I did have an interesting conversation the other day. I was bitching to my friend about how slow and shitty SL is all the time. People are gray for a [...]

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Shocking ‘Man-of-Steel’ Incident Mars SL SciFi Convention

Kalel “Steely Dan” Venkman griefed with his own path light prims I’m not sure why anyone would think it was a good idea to invite the Justice League Unlimited to the Second Life Science Fiction Convention 4 held earlier this month – and further compound the problem by placing the JLU plot directly next to the [...]

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