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One of my very favorite things about Second Life, is the heightened sense of transience and intensity in all our everyday interactions here. There is a wonderful dream-like quality in the hyper-beautiful avatars that roam imaginative landscapes, meeting strangers and yet managing to connect mentally so deeply, sometimes only in the medium of text. These [...]
The Two Three Six Five project is a project Trace has created to showcase the RL/SL blend, one person a day, for a full year. It’s really interesting to be able to glimpse into Second Lifers’ thoughts outside of the virtual world even for one blog post. From Trace: Humans have a fear of things [...]
Delora’s (out of) the Closet by Delora Starbrook, Haven Designs Good afternoon, SCD readers and haters.  I come to you today a changed woman. I have done soul searching and budgeting, bumming and whining, and finally realized that I, the person you know as Delora Starbrook, have to quit smoking out there in the real world. [...]
Hayden Palmira, known to many in Second Life as her old avatar, Dahlia Elide, passed away at 5:10am yesterday morning after attempting to fight off both pneumonia and the H1N1 virus in the ICU. Her fiance, known in SL as Nicholas Sinatra, came online for a brief moment tonight to tell everyone what happened. She [...]
Ever year, about 46,000 people are diagnosed with breast cancer. That’s one person every 11 minutes October is Breast Cancer Awareness month world-wide; and to bring awareness to this particular cause, Glitterati poses will be releasing a free pose set every week. While commonly thought to only affect the female community, breast cancer also targets [...]
This all started when my friend the darling ducky Ravenelle Zugzwang suggested I try a trial of a game called Plants versus Zombies. In order for me to like a computer/video game it has to have a “cute” factor, and Plants Vs. Zombies has this in spades. The premise is simple. You set plants to [...]
Last week I was lucky enough to have a chat with Trace Osterham about his NO H8 campaign on Second Life. This week, I’m lucky enough to tell you all that there will be a closing soiree in the gallery on Monday, September 14th, starting at 2:30 PM SLT. OMGWTF Barbeque will be the DJ! [...]
It would seem things are getting hairier regarding DMCA all over the place. In Louis Vuitton Malletier, S.A., v. Akanoc Solutions, Inc., et al., CV07-03952 JW (N.D. Cal. 2007), Louis Vuitton brought suit against ISP’s that were hosting counterfeit merchandise websites, namely Akanoc Solutions, Inc., Managed Solutions Group, Inc., and Steven Chen (the owner and [...]
There once was a time on the Grid where every time you turned around, there was a social event that didn’t scream “free sex” in the title. Long gone are those days, for as of recently, every time I look for something fun and whimsical with good music and company, I’m bombarded with “FREE SEX, [...]
I spent some time this week talking to a friend and well known designer in SL, pointing out some key differences between real life marketing and Second Life marketing. I was a bit surprised to realize how many differences I kept coming up with through our conversation. For instance: – The average amount of time [...]
It’s become fairly apparent to the content creation community as a whole that there are certain designers out there who have begun filing DMCAs simply to eliminate the competition. One designer has at least two self-filed, known cases of such thing against her – one has long since passed, the other is still coming to [...]
In a recent post on the New York Post, they covered the online phenomena of “pseudocide” – faking death via the internet. There have been quite a few cases of this in Second Life, and unfortunately the new aspect from simply online pseudocide is that people pass money around in Second Life like water – [...]
Is it okay to make jokes about other people’s illnesses in the spirit of a business marketing promotion? Dear Lemania, I’ve shopped at your stores for more than a year and I’ve always admired your passion and your artistic vision. However, I’m somewhat saddened and disturbed by the fact that you’re having a Prozac Hunt [...]
Hey kids! It’s the Fourth of July! Happy Independence Day to you Americans! We love all you international sorts too, but SCD is an American-based blog and so we’re going to celebrate our own birthday while mackin’ on George Washington for making it happen. That being said, some of you seriously need to click the [...]
From Inquisitr.com: The Australian Minister for Censorship has today confirmed what I’ve been reporting for nearly two years: online adult games including Second Life will be banned in Australia. A spokesman for Censorship Minister Stephen “Goebbels†Conroy confirmed to Fairfax newspapers that “under the filtering plan, it will be extended to downloadable games, flash-based web [...]
What. In. The. Everloving. Hell. From the above linked website: Mijn Schatje, (…) is a successful artist who makes a living based off the images she creates. Prints of her work retail for over a thousand dollars, she’s made deals with Sony Playstation and Fornarina Clothing, and large-scale statues have been created based on her [...]
Antonia Marat as a Gracie Girl “Meh? I will say this tho, if I were to hold a similar contest for Artilleri, I would probably ask for curvy models because that is what I feel fits the brand. She is doing the same. Just with different preferences.†– Antonia Marat Models + glorified + hangers [...]
So, I’m still catching up on what the heck happened in Second Life while I was busy battling RL drama. Apparently, Aspire Isle disappeared in September. Why am I just now looking into this? A co-designer sent me this notecard: Hi Tenshi, I know of you through DIS group and through reading your blog. We [...]
We almost never talk about RL on SCD, but today’s an exception. I read about this on Harper Baresford’s blog and wanted to share the information with you. Eshi Otawara is a forigner who married a US citizen. Her husband passed away and now she may be deported. He died while her application to become [...]
While hunting down men’s hair at the fair, I stumbled upon a very strange sight. In one of the vendor spots on each sim lay hundreds of bandanas for sale, from a dozen different designers such as DamselFly, Hobo Island, Something Different, and many more. They were surprisingly cheap too, only $50 each. But why [...]
Is it wrong that I inwardly groan any time I see some pretty little SL Shopper babbling on and on about “couture”? “The Top 50 Couture-ers in SL, teehee hee!” God… no… stop. Couture doesn’t exist in SL – we’ve determined this. There’s something akin to haute style, but couture doesn’t exist. You can not [...]
Marissa Racecourse has been working on this experiment for a good long while. Her completed presentation was eventually used in the real life, and now is your chance to read her research. I’m proud to say that Marissa used Shopping Cart Disco as some of her source material. Great job, Marissa! A short teaser: It’s [...]