Posted in Non-profit, Outdoors, Prizes! on March 1, 2008 | No Comments »
I received this news of an event for charity - which looks rather fun, I thought:
Anchorage Alaska Convention and Visitors Bureau (ACVB) presents:
Virturod™, the virtual Iditarod™ dog sled race.
MISSION
To explore the wonders of Anchorage, Alaska through the magic of Second Life and to simulate the Virtual Iditrod in SL.
There will be free T-shirts for visitors. [...]
Posted in Campaign!, Non-profit, Store, Web-site on January 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We’re all energy conscious these days - or perhaps we should be! And the rl media (as if they didn’t have enough complaints to make about Second Life!) throw up their hands in horror at the amount of energy we consume here in Second Life. Each avatar, they announce, has the same carbon [...]
Posted in About the Magazine, Charity Auction, Non-profit on January 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A few days ago, our reporter Jvstin Tomorrow gave his report of the Many Midnights event that Prim Perfect co-hosted at the Gaiety Theatre, Caledon Penzance in association with the Theatre and Radio Riel to raise funds for the Project Gardens of Hope.
We promised then to let you know how much was raised at [...]
Posted in Non-profit on January 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do you have Facebook? If so, you can help S.O.L.I.D., one of the charities based on Better World Island (with their Gardens of Hope project), raise money to support school students in Lesotho.They have already raised a small sum by this method, which went to supply hampers of food for Christmas in Lesotho. [...]
Posted in Designers, Non-profit, Sim on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Every so often, I get asked to visit a store or a build that the owner (or creator) thinks might interest me. From my rl, I have an interest in education, so when Gospel Voom asked me to take a look at his build for the China Cafe, I was more than willing.
The Cafe [...]
Posted in About the Magazine, House owning, Non-profit, Sim, Winterfell on November 14, 2007 | 2 Comments »
You may remember that some time ago, I posted an article on What is land ownership as opposed to renting? I promised then this second article, exploring some of the pros and cons of buying from Linden as opposed to a private sale - so here goes.
Linden: Pros
The first thing about buying from Linden [...]
Posted in Memorial, Non-profit, Sim on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Tomorrow is Remembrance Day, when throughout the Commonwealth, people remember those who have died in the wars of the last century (and war in general). The way this is traditionally marked is by wearing a red poppy - and you can get these in Second Life at the wonderful memorial that has been created [...]
Posted in Memorial, Non-profit, Sim on November 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
There are many moving builds in Second Life, such as the memorial to the World Trade Centre on Celestial Requiem. Some of them, such as Camp Darfur and the Streets of Baghdad, can be found on Better World Island (which was our Sim of the Month in Issue 4).
Today I visited another such build, [...]
Posted in About the Magazine, Non-profit, Prizes!, Sim on November 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
As you know, each month in Prim Perfect, we have a star prize of a month’s free rental of a house, a cottage, a castle, a cabin or an apartment - phew! as you can see, quite a range in out first five issues!
The star prize in Issue 4, our September issue, was a [...]
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