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The Hogfather

Me on Hogfather's lap. He looks scary.

FLOCK THE ESTABLISHMENT MAN!!!

It's Wootstock tinies style. 2 days of waffles and music. Raglan Winter Wood... er, Wootstock.

Something said about child AVATARS

You should PLEASE consider this stuff: 1). Contrary to what most people outside second life think, there is more to SL than just SEX. Second Life (SL) child avatars ARE 18 YEARS OF AGE AND OLDER IN REAL LIFE - this is ROLEPLAYING childhood and it's sooo much fun! You get to be silly all the time! You can get adopted & hang out with other kids & go to school & whatever else you can dream up! If you're new to being a kid (or teen!) here's what's up - YOU CANNOT DO ANYTHING SEXUALLY-RELATED WHATSOEVER. If you want to be a kid AND an adult then make 2 avatar accounts. Just do it. If a child avatar is seen around things like sexual furniture, photos, naked people, etc. - ANYTHING you can think of that's of a sexual nature - Linden Labs can and will delete your account and could even ban your COMPUTER from logging into Second Life. There will be no questions asked - you get caught like that and you're gone - as the Terms of Service for Second Life s

Do not use Emerald - Version 950 has a critical exploit

There is a recently discovered exploit within Emerald that can quite literally allow someone with an appropriately equipped client to strip your entire inventory. Egregiously bad flaw, kids... wait until Modular sorts this one out. Gee, I wish I knew about this before it happened to me. I had problems with my account night before last with my inventory not loading. Don't know how it happened, but it did. --------------------------------EDIT-------------------- Since this post, it happened to me on my main account. The creator(s) of Emerald has since posted a update to their viewer. You will have to download and install this update to continue your fun.

Updated TAO of SPAM

***NCI Spam Central*** *****NOT AN ADVERTISEMENT GROUP***** ***URL: secondlife:///app/group/e8a029bf-a974-e521-9437-6cd72bf96bad/about ======================================== ***Definition of the internet meme/term "Spam": Spam is the abuse of electronic messaging systems (including most broadcast mediums, digital delivery systems) to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately. While the most widely recognized form of spam is e-mail spam, the term is applied to similar abuses in other media: instant messaging spam, Usenet newsgroup spam, Web search engine spam, spam in blogs, wiki spam, Online classified ads spam, mobile phone messaging spam, Internet forum spam, junk fax transmissions, and file sharing network spam. What is not included in the definiation of "Spam" is the word "advertisement". That said, while it's falsely assumed that being open to spamming means being open to ads; the truth is, that's a very small portion of the heart an

Childrens In Crisis

On behalf of supporters of Childrens In Crisis, it is my pleasure as this year's host, to invite you to join us and celebrate in Memory of Wollas Beaumont the 1st Annual Children in Crisis 24hr RockAbout Benefit. Starting December 12th at 6pm slt and ending December 13th at 6pm slt a lineup of 10Dj's ( hope it come some more) (confirmed so far) will rock your world with hourly contests and with great gifts. ------------------------------------------ Wollas Beaumont was a dear SL friend of mine who died and she was devoted to the Children in Crisis Organization. As a result her family and I have decided to keep Wollas Original gesture shop in Second Life open, donating all money earned from the shop and all the tips to her favorite charity "Children in Crisis" - a humanitarian association which helps children. Additionally we have decided to put this huge party together in her memory and gather donations to be sent in her name to her favorite charity. http://www.

Top 10 Linden Myths

1. Lindens have X-Ray vision This is untrue. Their ability to see you naked has nothing to do with X-Rays. 2. There are only ten Lindens and they rotate through many accounts to make it seem like there are more. This is untrue. There are over 50 Lindens who cycle through many accounts to make it seem like there are more. 3. Lindens have the ability to turn your avatar into a fish. This is untrue. Lindens abilities to turn people into other forms of life is limited to changing you to a toad. 4. Lindens put their pants on one leg at a time just like everyone else. In 2005 this became a myth when FeeFieFoeFanna Linden perfected the first dual legged virtual trouser fitting device (using only four prims!). In 2007 it became a complete impossibility when the official uniform Linden dresscode mandated a nice plaid kilt or skirt. 5. All new Lindens traditionally make a bear to give SL citizens as tokens of goodwill. The real purpose of the bear making tradition is to

A Guide to Anime Emoticons and why they're getting popular

A Guide to Anime Emoticons And why they're getting popular By Sohan D'souza At the dawn of the internet era, BBS-users discovered that the lack of face-to-face communication resulted in conflict when, for example, parodies or humorous comments were taken seriously. Even telephone users could use voice tone to indicate anger, sarcasm or humor. As such, they needed to find a way to express the tone of the messages they were posting. No need to go into how exactly it happened, but the first emoticons were a godsend, and prevented many an awkward, confusing or flammable situation. Over the years, with the evolution of the BBS into the Internet, and then the explosion of online websites, forums and chat interfaces, the proto-emoticon regularly evolved into a myriad sets, mostly unique to their hosts, and even developed into codes that were translated by the communication engine into images and sometimes even animations. As the environment molds evolving lifeforms to its demands,

Tiny Carolers

I'm a caroling tiny as we go from spot to spot caroling.

Raglan's Winterfest

The Raglan activities calendar is available online at: http://raglanshire.com/ - click Event Calenar link on right side of the page. SEKRET SANTA - look for notices about this Sunday 11/29 - Dec 2 - Sign Up! Drop your name in Sekret Santa box to participate Dec 3 - begin - pick up your stocking with name of your Sekret Santa giftee at Great Tree Steve, Heron Shire Forest Thurs Dec 24th - 2 prezzie exchange parties - 11 am and 5 pm slt Location: tba Artisan Ornaments for the Community Tree & 3rd Tree Topper Contest! Look for notices about these Location: Raglan Holiday Village Snowman Building Contest - Look for notices about this 3rd Annual Etheria Parrott Ice Sculpty Sculpture competition Look for notices on how to enter and date of judging and awards. Location:Raglan Holiday Village Tiny Holiday Carolling - around the grid Look for notices. Sat Dec 5: WINTERFEST OPENING DAY PARTY Skating & Skiing Party - DJd music Location:R aglan Holiday Village Sun Dec 6: Kitti &am

Tiny Thanksgiving at a spot in Raglan

A turky dressed tiny. Lots of fun... ...and dancing. Turkey... nom, nom, nom. I CAN HAZ LOLS? Wake me for tomarow.

Happy Thanksgiving

Mmmmmm pumpkin pie!!!!!

Tinies ice skating

Winterfest is comming soon. The Shire is gonna be snowed in soon. Today we ice skate. Is there a hockey team in the works? Maybe.

Raglan Has Talent

Marlon8000 Hastings plays guitar at the Raglan Shire Talent Show. What's my talent? I donno, it'll be something to work on for next year.

The Mentors gruop is closing?

Seems like it. I feel like they are taking a part of our fun away. [12:29] Loretta Lurra: Open note to any Lindens that monitor this communication channel: I have been in SL for over three years and a Mentor for a fairly long period of time. I own 40 sims and pay Linden over $6,000 per month for them. During my time in Sl i have witnessed a successive chain of horrible decisions by the SL executive team. Some of which are not simply bad business decisions - but totally inexplicable from logical analysis; however, with your decision to end the Mentor program you have simply outdone yourselves. You take 3500 or so people who are committed to helping others - and throw that talent, expertise, and experience out the window. What in the world is wrong with you people? Are you simply idiots as some say? You claim that the Mentor program is simply too large to administer: well, get a clue. Reduce the number of Mentors to a managable level. Take the best of the best ( Admittedly I am not one o

Oh bawls, the Lindens are at it again.

I just recived word that the Lindens will charge content creators (our) money or a fee for listing on Xstreet. I took all my stuff down from it. https://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/4902 The Blog link: https://blogs.secondlife.com/community/commerce/blog/2009/11/18/roadmap--managing-freebies-on-xstreet-sl The Forum response so you can put your say in: https://blogs.secondlife.com/thread/4902 Basicly it's like this: LL are going to introduce some charges: * 99L per month for freebie listings * They are charging a MINIMUM 3 lindens surcharge on all items sold for 1 linden or more * 10L per item per month for anything over $1L For example: if you have 10 items on there, you will now have to pay $1200L per year to have them on SLX or if you have 100 items, thats $12,000L per year And freebies don't get listed in search or anything All I have to say is Content creators and website builders, come to gether and create your own sites to sell stuff. I'm sure there will be oth

Andy Warhol inspired artwork

This is my Andy Warhol inspired work. Here's the link: http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-warholphoto.html

Real life stuff

I'm not in SL as much for the holidays. I am fixing stuff up for my store now. Doing more comic type stuff. Here's a pic I fixed up when I found a simple tutorial to do it. http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/Photoshop-blog/2007/09/13/give-your-photos-a-retro-comic-book-effect/

House Of Pips

Loki Eliot's Burning Life build.

DJ Everest at Tokyo Stage

Burning Life at the DJ Eve show. I liked his dance, I'll have to ask him sometime where he got it.

Worlds colide?

Tinies and kids in Marianne McCann's ball pit at her Burning Life build.

Halloween at the Shire

It's Shocktober at Raglan. This month we have classes on Halloween decorations, parties, movies, a swamp with vendors all around, a haunted house, a haunted carnival and freak show.

JLU at Burning Life

Burning Life is up and running and the JLU has a build there. I had plans to put a build in but rl stuff came up. In the mean time, check out Burning Life and come see the JLU build. JLU Burning Life build

Project Jason

There was a formal dance last night that I had missed. However, I did make it there in time to make a donation. The dance was hosted by the JLU (Justice League Unlimited) and was set in the Big Band Era. Fancy dresses, suits and tuxedos. Today I had received these: I wanted to take time to thank the wonderful and very creative people who hosted yesterday's fundraising event in Second Life. I saw the images on the Krypton Radio site and it looked like you all captured the essence of that era so perfectly! In representing the families of the missing, it is important that you know how much these efforts mean to all of us. We're not a "popular" cause, and the majority of the general public doesn't know about the crisis going on behind the scenes, and of the difficulties faced by the families we serve. When we're given help, it helps us know people care, and gives us that boost to keep going one more day, to keep searching, and to never give up, no matter what

Palm reading at Medevil faire in Raglan

Now I won't say what the Great Clowey Greenwood had told me, but it'll be very silly.

Login re-directs to Zindra

**So when I logged in, my home sim wasn't available. I was redirected to Zindra, and this worried me, so I contacted live support. Chatlog follows. - Soki** What kind of issue are you having? Inworld Issue opr_9882401204cde46b2be097b71142eefc48b3b283-65e2-45cb-9b54-c76fc34673c7: Thank you for contacting Second Life Live Chat support! An agent will be with you in a moment. Minerva: Hi there, Sokmunky_Rutabaga Rutabaga. Welcome to Minerva's live help. As I am speaking with a number of residents currenty, I appreciate your patience very much. If this call pertains to an Inworld Abuse Incident, please file an Abuse Report inworld by selectiong Help>Report abuse in your client. Sokmunky_Rutabaga Rutabaga: Hi. I just logged in, and my usual sim was unavailable, so I was redirected ti a sim on Zindra. This wouldn't ordinarily be an issue, but I'm a child avatar. Is there a way to not get redirected there again? Minerva: I'm afraid not. There's not harm in being in a

A fellow blogger at the Vortex

Adz Childs at the Vortex. Adz is a fellow kid blogger.

Tiny jousting in Raglan

Tiny jousting pics: Raymond Nightfire, Morgan Underwood, Songbird Sorbet and a few others participated. This is just one of many events during Raglan's Renaissance month.

911 WTC Memorial sim

Another memorial: http://slurl.com/secondlife/New%20York%20NYC/128/123/21 There are too many New York sims. LOL. I made a mistake thinking I bloged another sim when I thought it was this one. 9/11 greeter: Bloodfang Clawtooth Welcome to the World Trade Center Memorial. Please turn on your radio, you will hear the names of all the people that died today 8 years ago There is one flag for each person, to match the country they are from. Today is a simple day of remembrance and reflection. (step a bit away from the TP point if you can so that others have rez room, TY) This is a FREE American Flag Lapel Pin. It is attached to the chest and initially will float a "few" inchs away from your avatar. You can use the included FREE Posing Stand (created by Cailyn Miller) to pull it closer and repostion it to your individual Av's size. Rez the stand, right click on it and choose "Sit Here". Once you are standing on the stand, right click on the Lapel Pin and choose EDIT. F

911 Memorial Memorial

http://slurl.com/secondlife/dAlliez%20Land%20Headquarters/108/148/25 The owners of this sim took the time and effort to put up a memorial for the people who lost their lives on 911. Someone had said: "Well, wanting to is something that everyone does... sacrificing their time and energy to make it happen, that is special." No notecards of freebies. I'm sure if you ask them, they'll let you leave a candle or rose or something.

Memorial at the Salt Creek sim

http://slurl.com/secondlife/Salt%20Creek/20/74/22 You get some goodies here too. “911 Rememberance- Memorial” in Virtual World " We Will Never Forget". WWW.911Memorial.ning.com 911memorial@gmail.com “911 Rememberance- Memorial” in Virtual World (Second Life) A DAY “ WE WILL NEVER FORGET” On September 11th, 2001 .... four American Airliners were hijacked. Two of these planes were crashed into the World Trade Center and one into the Pentagon. The last plane crashed eighty miles southeast of Pittsburgh. Eight years later, Americans and nationalities covering the planet, remember... in the real world AND in a Virtual World of Second Life, those tragic occurrences. A 24 hour Remembrance-Memorial Service begins September 11th at 10 A.M. EST. The program consists of Memorial Services repeated twice, including a 21 gun salute, and additionally, speakers that are real-life Survivor/relatives of 911. The exceptional architectural design, compassionate vocal presentations, and numerous

911 in the NYC sim

I blogged this sim this past July. There isn't any notecards for this place, when you first tp to the sim, look around for the sign that will tp you to the Twin Towers. There you can pick up a t-shirt and memorial candle to wear. http://slurl.com/secondlife/NYC/86/135/23 There's a website: http://www.familiesofseptember11.org/donate.aspx

Sept 11, 2009

This is a third annual Second Life 9/11 Memorial Event that are based on real life police and fire traditions ( depending on volunteers availablity). This will provide opporuntities for anyone that may not be able to attend real life 9/11 event for various reasons. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Salt%20Creek/20/74/22 The speakers from various background such as doctor, firefighters, officers and other will be presenting, including Hope McAlpine, the creator of this event. Every attempt is made to invite speakers in different languages. We feel honoured to have bagpipers to play for us again this year. They have been truly amazing in demostrating their unwavering dedication. The honourable positions such as 21 gun salutes, honour guards, and other positions are typically reserved for real life police, firefighters, EMS, disasters and other responders. But also for whose avatar that have unrefutable and soild , upstanding reputation. We read name of fallen officers, firefighters, EMS, mil

Alert a missing person

Jenifer Seabra missed since 4 days Tue Sep 08 2009 04:36 PM Jenifer Seabra missed since 4 days Account name: Jenifer Martinek She wanted to meet someone she met in SL in RL and her parents are concerned Infos please to Klebber@terra.com.br Jenifer Seabra missed since 4 days Account name: Jenifer Martinek She wanted to meet someone she met in SL in RL and her parents are concerned Infos please to Klebber@terra.com.br ---please forward this note----and translate to your language if possible. german: Jenifer Martinek ist in RL Jenifer Seabra und sie wird schon seit 4 tage vermisst ihre eltern machen sich sorgen .sie wollte jemand von sl in rl besuchen mit einen bekannte. wenn jeman information hat bitte an den vater email schreiben Klebber@terra.com.br ich bedanke mich im vorraus bitte es weiter geben !!!! BITTS AUCH AN EURE GRUPPEN WEITERGEBEN !!!!! italian: Jennifer Seabra è scomparsa da 4 giorni il suo account name è Jenifer Martinek Sembra lei volesse incontrare in RL qualcuno conosc

New store location.

I moved my store just down the sidewalk to a bigger place. I hope to have more stuff out soon. I did put a section up for tinies. and the land behind it will have something, just don't know what yet.

The world comes to an end...

No, SL isn't ending, but the real world might just be. Disney buys Marvel Comics Wed Sep 02 2009 07:23 AM Many of you might have seen it in the papers, many likely did not. Yesterday Disney announced it is buying marvel comics. You might have noticed there is no SL Disney here., nor are disney characters readily available. That is because Disney is famous for protecting it's owned copyright and tradmarked characters through lawsuits. I just wanted to make sure people here playing an selling marvel avatars are aware of the possibility that there may be problems soon. Say it ain't so bub.

Kid bots?

Kid Botz (Send responses by 4pm SLT) Thu Sep 03 2009 03:50 AM Hi Milk N Kooksters! The Kookie Staff is planning on discussing the new "kids" in SL. We'd like to know how you feel about this, so we can talk about your opinions on the show. Attached is the notecard that discribes what these are, in case you are not aware. I'm sure we will get very different answers. Please send your feelings,on a notecard titled Kid Botz to SAGE KOSTENBAUM. If you'd like to stay anonymous, please tell me in the card. :) We'll probably talk about the article in the Secondlife Herald. Wait there's more... Tired of adopting kids on Sl only to have them soak you for Lindens and Land, lie to you and bail? Now there is a better solution. Thanks for visiting SL's most unique artificial intelligence. KidsBotz ae REAL child avatars that stay logged in, 24/7 through the KidsBotz servers and await your commands. They are the most well behaved kids on Second Life! Our Kids h

The Compleat Disclaimer

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New Teen/kids sim by kids and no adults

There's two new kid/teen sims. http://slurl.com/secondlife/Taro/229/26/22 Here you can own or rent land (1640.00L per week/ Prims: 937), teepees ($350.00L per week/ Prims: 100) or treehouses ($900.00L per week/ Prims: 300). They will work with you. And this: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tori/130/126/24 is the "play" sim. A place where you can ride horses, cuddle, hang out. With pirate ship, secret club house, and fishing area. They will have another sim for stores and such soon. The conversation from one of the owners: -- Instant message logging enabled -- [04:04 PM] Graham Hazelnut: Hey Bloodfang, welcome :D, let me know if you got any questions k [04:04 PM] Bloodfang Clawtooth: ok thanks [04:06 PM] Bloodfang Clawtooth: will you have a mall on these sims? [04:06 PM] Graham Hazelnut: not on the residentional, but planning on adding an additional sim that will be commercial [04:07 PM] Graham Hazelnut: timing on that will depend on finances though, lol [04:07 PM] Blo

911 Event

This is a third annual Second Life 9/11 Memorial Event that are based on real life police and fire traditions ( depending on volunteers availablity). This will provide opporuntities for anyone that may not be able to attend real life 9/11 event for various reasons. 􀀀 The speakers from various background such as doctor, firefighters, officers and other will be presenting, including Hope McAlpine, the creator of this event. Every attempt is made to invite speakers in different languages. We feel honoured to have bagpipers to play for us again this year. They have been truly amazing in demostrating their unwavering dedication. The honourable positions such as 21 gun salutes, honour guards, and other positions are typically reserved for real life police, firefighters, EMS, disasters and other responders. But also for whose avatar that have unrefutable and soild , upstanding reputation. We read name of fallen officers, firefighters, EMS, military and others. We have memorial services tha
Greetings everyone, With the announcement of guidelines and restrictions placed on items sold in SL and on XStreet (please see the following link) https://www.xstreetsl.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=22 such as DC or Marvel, Star Trek, Babylon 5, any inspired by items of RW products, of Superheroes, Heroes, Mutants, you name it, we at Mutant Lives will effectively as of this notice be removing our products from XStreet SL and also in the future, removing all products that fit the Branding policies and Guidelines. We have always strived to create 100% by hand all items following what the DMCA allowed but now with these new guidelines that is not enough. All DC/Marvel/ Superheroes will be removed as will any Avatars based on likeness of characters. All items that do not effectively cross the line will remain but it may not be enough for us to continue to hold land in SL, only time will tell. Also in the future, items will be renamed as such to not reflect any asso