The Forder Foundation

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The Gonzo Tapes: The Life And Work Of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson

A Spoken Breakdown, William S. Burroughs

(Set begins with track 3; first two tracks were warm-up, not streamed.)

Since reports are surfacing that Linden Lab is removing any comments linking to competing services, I’ve started a list of XStreetSL competitors:

• slapt.me (Adult-oriented)
• Apez
• MetaLife

Linden Labs has announced changes in its pricing for XStreetSL.com listings yesterday, and the furor over it is still unfolding. In brief,  the changes are:

• For every item listed for sale in XStreetSL, vendors will be charged L$10 a month.
• For every free item listed in XStreetSL, vendors will be charged L$99 a month.

These are in addition to the commission of up to 10% for items sold via XStreetSL that the Lindens already collect.
I won’t go into the alleged justification for this policy, as it’s laughable and specious. The comment thread for the post contains several alternative motivations for the policy; a power-play by large-scale vendors trying to drive out competition, a money-grab by LL desperate to squeeze money from the platform, and so on. All of these are plausible, each is more plausible than any of the official reasons for the change.
Whatever the motivation, the exodus from XStreetSL has begun.
As a vendor with products on XStreetSL, the new policy effectively wipes out my entire business. My top-selling item goes is listed for L$10. I sell, on average, one of these per month. under the new policy, I will pay L$13 a month to maintain that listing. Unless the policy changes, I see no alternative except to pull my listings from XStreetSL.com.
I’ll be looking hard at Apez.bin for the next few days, but at the moment it looks like an in-world storefront is the best alternative.

My mainland parcel is intersected by Linden right-of-way on one side, and bordered by a different Linden right-of-way on the other.
I really want to know when the roads will be built, but apparently there isn’t a schedule for doing it.
I’d even build the road for you, but Michael says that you lawyers say that I can’t unless I’m a mole, and if I become a mole, I won’t be able to influence which roads are worked on next.
If you ask me to, I’ll sign a notarized letter indicating that I’m doing the work for free, and that the roads will be Linden property. I’ll use textures that LL provides, so that they match the rest of the roads, and so that there are no digital media rights issues.
I’d really like to have some roads built in Blanda.

Combined set for four hours. The first two hours were at the Brooklyn is Watching Grand Reopening, the last two were at Organica.

A special show with Tuna Oddfellow.