50L$ Friday and the 5th of November

Finally, 50L$ Friday is here! So many things to buy... for girls that is. Only 4 stores offer something that guys can buy: Reek, NINIKO, Tyranny Designs and Tiny Bird. Monkey's recommendations: NINIKO and Tyranny. As for Reek, I personally recommend it if you like fun accessories.

My recommendations for the ladies? Go to each and every store and see for yourself. I'm sure you'll find something you'll just HAVE to buy.

Here's the list of who's participating this week:

1. This is Fawn

2. Sand Shack Surf Co.

3. NINIKO

4. !Ohmai

5. Reek

6. League

7. Tyranny Designs

8. Tiny Bird

9. Adore & Abhor

10. Scribble

11. Pididdle

12. Epoque

13. Katat0nik

Now, the 5th of November. I'm sure that most of you know what content theft is. If not, well, content theft is basically when one individual with no moral sense copies the creation of a designer without his/her permission and resells it or give it out for free. It is illegal as it is basically copyright infringement. Unfortunately, content thieves always seem to be around the grid. What is more shocking is seeing people wearing ripped off item or, worse, distributing them around to random people "ignoring" the fact that what they are giving is a rip off copy. I have a hard time believing people saying "I didn't know". Yah right, like it didn't ring a bell when someone handed you a box full of hairstyles from known stores and that it cost you nothing. Thankfully, there is now a group called "Artist's Voice" that was created to educate people about content theft and prevent such a thing to happen.

So, the 5th November, they are asking creators, shoppers and bloggers to stop creating, selling, shopping, uploading and blogging for 48 hours. Why? To show the Lindens that we do care about content theft and copyright infringement. How would you react if something you created was copied and resold without your permission? I'm sure monkey wouldn't shrug and say "Whatever" (his usual reaction to anything) if some twat copied his precious TV that took him a decade to make and gave it out for free or resold it.

For the creators, 48 hours without selling anything is nothing compared to the money and time you loose when someone decides to rip off your creations. For the shoppers, you can survive if you don't buy something for 2 days... hell, it doesn't include the free items, so use those 2 days to get those free items. True, one of those two days is the 50L$ Friday, but maybe they'll move it to Saturday. As for the bloggers, take that small break to explore the grid, bake cookies, read books or study.

So STOP! on the 5th to show that you care.

Now, the LOTD

Skin: [ATOMIC] - Baily (VIP group gift)
Hair: Truth - Charlotte
Top: Decoy - Kelsey Jacket
Pants: Sand Shack Surf Co - Yoga Pants
Shoes: 50 Flats - jeweled flats
Pose: (pda) - City in Progress
Place: Innsmouth

PS: Monkey confirmed that the t-shirts found at the [ATOMIC] hunt are for guys, even if they are probably meant to be unisex.