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It’s hard to believe…

but true: every time you think “Those linden labs fools can’t do worse than that”, someone there raises his head and shouts a defiant “You wish!”.
Looks like by now, mentioning other online shops in XStreet listings can get your account suspended.
This was found on the slapt.me forum.

Dear ***,

This email is notification of action regarding your Second Life account,
Yevad Doobie, for violation of the Second Life Terms of Service or
Community Standards. The violation in question occurred on November 5, 2009
in the region of .

Violation: Community Standards: Rules of Conduct

Within Second Life we want to support residents in shaping
their specific experiences and making their own choices. Our
rules are simple: treat each other with respect and without
harassment, adhere to local standards as indicated by
simulator ratings, and refrain from any hate activity which
slurs a real-world individual or real-world community.

All of your item listings on the Marketplace are in violation of the
Marketplace Listing Guidelines, located here:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Linden_ … guidelines -
Links to competitor Marketplace web sites are not permitted.

Action:
As a result of this violation, your Second Life account is
being temporarily suspended for a period of 3 days. It will
return to active status on Sunday, Nov 08, 2009.

In a related sidenote, I’m about to finish moving my wares from XStreet to slapt.me. Find me there.

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“East meets west” Fashion show…. not.

November 21st, 5am SLT: “East meets West” fashion show.

Cool event… not.
“Region full”, “could not fulfil teleport request in a timely fashion”, and so on… and when you finally manage to somehow get into draw distance to the runway, nothing rezzes… seems that grey is the new black this fall.

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Would you place any trust into a company…

A weird-looking creature.

where employees are allowed to “dress” like that at work?

…that, dear audience, is a linden labs employee, who’s name shall be kept secret to protect the guilty.

The drawbacks of Zindra

Damn…

now that you have to be a “credentialized” avatar to go to adult places, the horny noobies hang out in fashion shops to hit on girls!

like this guy…
born one day ago…
a very interesting person to talk to… not.

[10:49:41]  Andress Tylman: Its go make sex
[10:49:48]  Andress Tylman: I man
[10:49:57]  Moriko Inshan: this guy is going to get an abuse report
[10:50:20]  Yuukie Onmura: you are a DEAD man as soon as i’m done filing an abuse report for sexual harrassment, buddy
[10:50:46]  Andress Tylman: Vai se foder vcs
[10:50:50]  Yuukie’s Google Translator: Andress Tylman:Fuck you vcs
[10:51:11]  Andress Tylman: Vai tomar no seu cú sua prostituta
[10:51:21]  Yuukie’s Google Translator: Andress Tylman:Go fuck whore

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Around Second Life in eighty hours – part 1

Hey guys,

we’re starting a series of posts here that will show you, loosely inspired by “around the world in 80 days”, eighty hours of exploring Second Life, loosely following a trail through “Search/Places”, trying to find cool spots that are at least vaguely inspired by places in the real world, if not modelled after such places.

So here, without further ado, is part one.

4 November 2009
Tim Horton’s New Home at Brimir

We set out on the start of our quest to see sights in sl that are based on rl at brimir sim, the new home of Tim Horton’s. I bought a box of Timmy’s donuts of course, and got a bit nostalgic about their iced capuccinos. We need to get some Timmy’s franchises here in Germany :-)

Stonehenge at Tefnut

Claims to be a full scale replica of the rl Stonehenge. We cannot attest to that, since neither of us have visited the real place, but it is a cool build. We also liked the fact that rezzing is allowed, so we rezzed our Rendevouz Couple tool, and wandered around hand in hand.

Glengarry Caste Ruin at Tefnut

After leaving Stonehenge, we wandered through Old York, and crossing Linden Road 8B, we entered the Glengarry Castle Ruin. More information about the real life Glengarry Castle and its area is available at
www.myglengarry.com .

Sankt Pauli  Landungsbrücken at Hamburg

A pretty good build of a famous area of Hamburg waterfront, showing the area where boat tours of the harbour begin. I had to take a close up of the sailboat necklace and earrings purchased at a previous exploration location, which was not worth blogging about.

Itsukushima Shrine at Sedig

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Itsukushima_Shrine
The Itsukushima Shrine is a Unesco World Heritage Site. The SL version is a lovely location, albeit with the usual gift shop that no SL attraction seems to be without. It is so pretty and peaceful here. Note that the Slurl takes you to a skybox over the island, where the owner is selling his creations that were used in building the place.

Wandering around, we found tea house, where Yuukie entertained us by playing a Japanese Koto instrument.

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Up the mallard, …not.

The monster

THIS is so not going to be able to cruise up the mallard river…

The worst necklace in SL.

If there is a guys necklace that is worse than this, I just don’t want to see it. ever.

News from Linden Labs…

Q: What’s the difference between a LL “higher-up” and a griefer?
A: A griefer doesn’t usually do permanent damage to SL.

more info here.

Online now… strange.

The timebase for this is GMT+2… or SLT+9 if you like that better.

“Up the mallard”…

in a previous post, I wrote “I’d hate to take that monster up the mallard”.

 Well, what can i say… I’ve tried it, and you actually CAN beat a VOJ70 upwind through the mallard river… if you know what you are doing.

It is also possible with a Trudeau J-Class, which is not that much smaller…

so what’s the next challenge? the Tradewind?

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