Relay Track Sneak Peek

 

Another scene from the Relay track. Looks like someone's getting a little medical care. So who is this, and what's the care for? See for yourself as the track opens in a few days.

Stay tuned for more details.
 

Bed Bug Hotel

Grey Lupindo does quite a bit of traveling in Second Life, as well as in real life. Unfortunately, real life travel has recently been getting a new hazard that hasn't been encountered in this country for decades: bedbugs. There's a place in Second Life made to educate people about how to avoid being the victim of these critters, the Bed Bug Motel. Grey checked in to see what the place had to offer.

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Stoker Serpentine Releases SexGen Bed as Freebie

Stroker Serpentine, has reportedly released his noted SexGen bed to be freely available to Second Life residents. According to the Herald, Second LIfe’s self-professed tabloid, On Wednesday Sept 28th, “he made the flagship of his SexGen business available with copy/transfer/modify permissions. The bed that turned a former real life plumber into a millionaire is now available to anyone - and free.”

Stroker Serpentine, known as Kevin Alderman in real life, created his bed under the brand “Strokers Toyz,” eventually founding the company Eros LLC. He also bought a sim which he named Amsterdam, and later sold it on eBay for $50,000. He ended up making real-life news when in July 4rth 2007, his company filed suit against Volkov Catteneo (Robert Leatherwood) for selling beds that he charged were copies of his own. Voltov never responded, and Stroker won by default. Later that year, he led a six-person lawsuit against Raze Keno (Thomas Simon). The case went to court, and the judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.

Sources: Alphaville Herald, Gigaom, Wired, secondlife.wikia,

Former T Linden Hired by Vacation Home Rental Business

Among the Lindens let go during the “Restructuring” last month at Linden Lab was T-Linden. Thomas Hale in real life, he was the Lab’s Chief Product Officer, or CPO, most known for the development of the unpopular Viewer 2. He has recently found himself another Job

On July 14th, the vacation home rental company HomeAway announced they were hiring Hale as their new CPO, “a newly created position at the company.” Of him and their other hire, Brent Bellm of Paypal, “HomeAway is fortunate to be able to attract these two talented and seasoned professionals to our business.”

It listed his experience with several companies, Second Life included, as qualifications, one company he worked for being a “capital investor” in HomeAway. They also noted that he was, “an avid traveler and vacation rental owner himself.”

HomeAway also operates BedandBreakfast.com, “the most comprehensive global site for finding bed-and-breakfast properties.“

Sources: TechCrunch, PRNewswire, HomeAway

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