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Bidbox powers Dreams Community Fair 2007

Just a quick plug for the Dreams Community Fair 2007, who are currently running a *huge* Bidbox-powered charity auction to benefit the American Stroke Association.

This is probably the largest-scale Bidbox auction yet attempted, and there's some wonderful artistic works under the hammer...

"Drama Frogs" has to be my favourite (and the bidding was only at L$250 when I checked - bargain!).

Want to see what else is up for grabs? Check out the Dreams sim... and don't forget to bid generously, it's all in a good cause!

((I know... I know... that's 3 charity posts in a row. Don't worry... I promise I'll be back to my usual evil capitalistic self soon...))

Bandanarama!

Just in case you didn't already know, today is bandana day! Ditch your hair for the day, and wear one of the many charity bandana designs from the Hair Fair - all proceeds go to Locks of Love.

Well, to be honest, my av doesn't have a whole lot of hair to ditch, even at the best of times... but, it's all in a good cause!

Linden Lifestyles are even running a photo contest to help spread the word - upload a flickr pic of your bandana-clad noggin today, and you could win a bunch of "cool free stuff". MMmmm! Cool free stuff! how can you resist?

Bandanas - in an assortment of designs - can be obtained here and here. Go. Now.

BidBox powers Hair Fair Auction 2007...

Lucky Designs is proud to announce its participation as technology provider for the grand charity auction at the 2007 SL Hair Fair. SL's top hair designers have collaborated on a series of unique one-off “coterie wigs”, which are being auctioned to raise funds for this year's featured charity, Locks of Love.

Locks of Love is an organisation which provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children who are suffering from long-term medical hair loss. Hair Fair '07 will be running an assortment of events over the next week to raise money for this worthy cause... please give generously!

The auction is being run on a set of Charity Edition Lucky Designs Bidboxes (though my sponsorship logos seem to have fallen off during shipping *cough*) ... and the hair designs - which you can get a better look at on the Linden Lifestyles preview piece - are already attracting a lot of attention... Sabrina's favourite - "Emily" - has already broken the L$50k mark, only 24 hours into the event!

(P.S. auction snipers beware! - as with our standard bidboxes, any last-minute bids will invoke a 60 second auction extension... these goodies really _will_ go to the highest bidder - you have been warned!!)

Auction SLURL: http://slurl.com/secondlife/hermit%20heaven/9/108/...

What dreams may come.

Typical, isn't it?... the week that I start falling behind on my RSS feeds is the week one of my inventions gets some coverage over on SL Insider. Eloise Pasteur wrote this piece on MobVends ... oddly, declaring them to be a new invention (I'm assuming she doesn't get out shopping too often). Disappointingly, the piece didn't really delve into the subculture of the chair hopping/mobbing scene, and pretty much went for the easy "this causes lag... must be bad" line :(

Oh well. They reckon all publicity is good publicity ;)

Now, could I interest any of you in a VCR.....?