Rio de Janeiro no SL from Anna Avalanche

Yes sweet Liane, this is a nice contest in the most beautiful Brazilian city and Déjà vu Magazine is supporting it.

My friend AQUILES Amat one of the contest organizers sent me the contest and the island advertise. Very good pictures!!! Congrats Aquiles. As we like beautiful places and gorgeous people we support your effort.

The Brazil Rio Island, with barely a month of operation, is one of the coolest Brazilian islands. The place is always surrounded by friends, pretty people, interesting avatars and the marvelous Sugarloaf Mountain view. Also the possibility to practice sports like Wind surf, hang-glider, Jet Ski, motorbike and parachute diving attracts people that like to have fun practicing radical sports. The island was carefully planned and constructed to provide you an excellent place and nice parties and contests promoted by BioBrilho Company.
We would like to invite you for the big "Girl Olympus 2008" contest. So, don’t miss your chance to win more than L$15.000 lindens distributed by the winners and also lots of gifts from the best Second Life stores.

Rio de Janeiro no SL from Liane Maertens

A new model contest is stirring the Brazilian fashion world on the SL, the agency Olimpia is promoting the "Girl Olimpia 2008" and a table with photos of 25 girls is in Rio SL, I was there giving a look and decided riding a cable car, a beautiful walk for those who love the Rio de Janeiro RL. It is worth to check the contest with beautiful Brazilian girls on the tour by the island.

For this tour I choose light cloths, as the Rio is hot. In this photo I wear Naima Oro ed Avorio, Vampirelle Storm_schoomz shoes, hair ETD Melrose - Chocolate and jewels JCNY - SOHO, Hardwood Bead Collection.

You can jump from the top cable car in a delta wing. There is a beautiful view of the whole land at midnight and a very good place for a romance. I found nice couples having fun there. So don’t wait more, because the competition of Olimpia ends soon and the girls expect your vote.

Linden Lab bans extortionate “ad farms"

SECOND LIFE, Feb 14 (Reuters) - Linden Lab has banned “ad farms,” the small plots of land with gaudy advertisements that are designed to extort neighboring landowners.


“Whilst advertising in itself is okay, where it crosses the line into harassing behavior or visual spam, where the intent is purely to compel another resident to pay an unreasonable price to restore their view - then this will be covered under Harassment in our Community Standards,” Jack Linden wrote in a blog post.

“It will obviously be difficult for us to define exactly where example A is an abuse issue as compared to example B where it is not,” he added. “‘Ad Farm’ will apply specifically to advertising or content that is intended solely to drive an unreasonable price for the parcel it is on, usually by spoiling the view of others.”

Early reaction from Second Life residents was largely positive, but concerns over what will be considered an “ad farm” linger. “It’s imperfect, but it’s a start,” said Taran Rampersad, who writes about Second Life under the avatar name Nobody Fugazi. “Linden Lab taking this step indicates a willingness to deal with the harder questions to come.”

Jeff Strohman, a Second Life land trader known in-world as Stetson Rail, was so exasperated by ad farmers he said he considered a lawsuit, but opted not to take action due to the costs of suing an avatar physically located in another country. He estimated ad farms lower the value of adjacent land by 20 percent.

Beyond the economic damage ad farms cause, there’s also the aesthetic one, Strohman said. “They only hurt Second Life and make it look like a damn junkyard,” he said.

(Image courtesy of Carl Metropolitan)

By Eric Reuters

From Reuters

Virtual adultery and Cyberspace Love?

This is a BBC documentary series about Second Life and Real Life. First, we meet Lee and Carolyn. They’re a married American couple, but only virtually. In reality, their marriage doesn’t mean a lot, as Carolyn has been online 14 hours a day for the past eight months with another man, while her husband looks after their young children.

We do get the nice side, too. The other main case study looks at Steve and Kristen, a British couple who started their relationship online, but consummated it in real life. And then got married, virtually, and later in reality, too. I bet even they get confused sometimes.

Well this is a very interesting documentary. You will be surprise!!! Don’t miss watching it. I would love to have comments about this.

Virtual adultery and Cyberspace Love?

Bid for a Model Raised more than 100,000L for Warchild International

SL Illustrated sponsored a week long auction called Bid for a Model, that was participated by thirty ( 30 ) models in SL, these models were from different agencies namely SL Illustrated Models, Face2 Face Model Academy, Sophisticated Models, and Modavia Models. Auctioned Models were, Zipben Aeon, Frolic MIlls, Bianca Vita, Ost Clawtooth, Selena Fellini, Tanisha Withfield, Gabriella Meriman, Lorens Carling, Wynter Kidd, Lile Bikcin, Alyssa Masala, Salvo Waydelich, Poptart Lilliehook, Manoushaz Matova, Madison Sullivan, Mikaela Yifu, Rachael Lowey, Jolanda Sellers, Elise Mersereau, Kamala Hesse, Tula Howlett, DJAteo Kuhn, Krystal Gagliano, Micheal Hynes.

The weeklong auction event was able to raise L$ 101,682.00 coming from different individuals wanting to date the said models. 100% of the proceeds went to WarChild International represented in SL by Rosalie Rothlisberger.

Warchild International sponsored in-world by Rosalie Rothlisberger, is a network of independent organizations, working across the world to help children affected by war. The organization is founded upon the fundamental goal of advancing the cause of peace through investing hopes in lives of children caught up in the horrors of war. More information about this organization can be found at http://www.warchild.org

The event opened last February 16, 2008 at 9am slt, held at the SL Illustrated grounds. The launch was very successful and was attended by around 30 people at a given period that lasted for several hours.

Hand-over of the raised amount and the actual dates of the models with their winners, closed the event last February 23, 2008 that was held at the lavish and posh SLI Angels Club, where the famous DJ Zane Bijoux played romantic love songs for the couples on their date. The closing was attended by the Management of SL Illustrated headed by Ted1 Kamachi ( CEO ), Ariel Lingiuan ( COO ), Madison Sullivan ( SLI Models Director ), Dadaist Gears ( SL Illustrated Editor-in-Chief ), and Stone Klaxon ( SLI Master Scripter ).

My Blog will support every kind of humanitarian project in SL. Well done Ariel Lingiuan. Congrats to all SL Illustrated models and participants of this attitude. I think projects like this need to be more common in Sl. After all we are all humans in flesh and blood and there is a lot to be done out in real Life.

Great Idea

Campion Sopwith sent me this note and I think it is very important to help our Colombian friends to fight against terrorism. Political aspiration shouldn’t be done kidnapping people or terrorism. This isn't democracy. Below I publish the note from my friend Campion.

Calling on SL citizens ... help our fellow Colombian friends by joining a Facebook group calling for the end of a terrorist group named FARC. FARC has held this wonderful country hostage for years and the good people of Colombia are now fighting back:

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6684734468

Your joining this group along with millions of people worldwide will send a strong signal that this situation will no longer be tolerated. Make a difference today ... join this cause.

Campion Sopwith