Herald Survives Day in DNS Hell
by Alphaville Herald on 30/07/10 at 4:38 am
Domain name denied — trusted servers play SERVFAIL card
A pair of rogue domain name servers have been stripped of their authoritative status and permanently banished from the Herald DNS registration after putting the alphavilleherald.com site through a nightmarish ordeal of DNS lies and deception that rendered the newspaper inaccessible to growing numbers of readers as [...]
Fake Trial of Century Begins
Chaos in The Courtroom
by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk
Today Second Life held its breath, and stood well upwind, as the SL District Court heard opening arguments in the case against Pappy and Jezz Enoch. The fake hillbillies are on trial for multiple crimes, including embezzlement of fake currency, assault on a tiny, vehicular mayhem, and [...]
Full StoryDruuna Pessoa — Post 6 Grrrrl
[Timothy Morpork is on vacation this week, so this week's Post 6 is presented to you by Daeynaries Lane. "I've known Druuna for ages and quite frankly, she has one of the most alluring Av's I know.. Without being over the top. I hope you enjoy this hot, sexy, post 6 grrl" -Daeynaries Lane]
I spend [...]
Full StoryVideo Girl Barbie Will Be Watching
Google to sponsor a line of toys with the soul of a Flip Cam next?
Mattel’s latest offering – Video Girl Barbie – dances somewhere between the creepy and cool with an almost perfect sense of iconic and ironic aimed at ages 6 and up – along with what appears to be carefully scripted media coverage [...]
Metaverse Meetup – Long Beach July 30 – 31
Future of Metaverse be decided around a hookah on Queen Mary?
The decks of the Queen Mary will echo at the end of July with the sound of open source techno-communists in jackboots, academics in clogs, birkenstock and flip-flop clad developers, and more than a few virtual world entrepreneurs sporting the sort of butter soft handmade [...]
Full StoryPost 6 Archives — Jenna Thurston, Makes Magic, Ost Clawtooth
by Timothy Morpork
It doesn’t seem possible that over a year has passed since I took over the best job on this virtual world- Post 6 Photographer. I thought I should do something to mark the anniversary, but that date came and went a couple of months ago. Organization and planning are not top priorities [...]
US Government Hits 73,000 Blogs With Ban Stick
by IntLibber Brautigan
In a blatant show of force against a host of more than 73,000 wordpress blogs, the US Government ordered BurstNet Technologies to take down the server of Blogetery.com for repeated acts of abuse of intellectual property and insufficient respect for the DMCA. According to a story on TorrentFreak, the owner/renter of the server [...]
Full StoryGE and NBC Place Bets On Vivox
by IntLibber Brautigan
The venture capital arm of General Electric and NBC Universal, aka "Peacock Equity" has invested $2 million in Second Life voice chat provider Vivox. Vivox provides voice chat services to 30 million users, with corporate clients CCP Games, Nexon, Linden Lab, Sony Online Entertainment, and many others. Vivox will use the new funds [...]
Linden Lab Stock Sinks at SharesPost
The return of Philip Rosedale as interim CEO of Linden Lab has apparently left real world investors unmoved, as offers to sell heavily discounted Linden Lab shares sit untouched at the SharesPost.com site. While SharesPost reports sales of Linden stock at $5.50 USD/share as recently as February 2010, current offers to sell stock go begging [...]
Full StoryKathrynAnn Kobaleinen — Post 6 Grrrrl
[KathrynAnn Kobaleinen came to see me ages ago about modeling. Finding time for her to pose with my increasingly busy RL and her time zone proved to be a problem, and then other delays have kept her from appearing here, but I have to say, she's very much worth the wait. KathrynAnn Kobaleinen is stylish, [...]
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