Archive for July, 2005

Gosh w-hat a Surprise: W-Hats in the Middle of SL Hack Mess

Screenshot of the W-Hat property. Well, it looks like the recent hacking episode on SL – in effect, a hack that allowed users to view protected scripts for objects like the Seburo Compact Exploder – has been isolated and is being fixed, but guess who is in the middle of it – Plastic Duck and [...]

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Gods and H4x0rs: SL Exploit Aims at Virtual Businesses

In what was probably the first effort aimed at SL’s vibrant business community, a Second Life client was hacked earlier this week to allow ‘god’ mode–in which a user may access copy-only scripts and make account balance adjustments, etc., that are usually available only to Linden Liaisons. Linden Lab moved quickly to patch out the [...]

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DarkSide Mafia Attacks BlackHand Mafia

by Gina Fatale In the last two weeks a series of attacks have been planned out and executed against what is left of the BlackHand Mafia. All from the orders of Boo Cinquetti, one of the Godfathers of DSM. Mr. Cinquetti was kind enough to grant the Herald an exclusive interview and provided some pictures [...]

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Skin Review: CherryBomb Hare

by Matthias Zander Continuing with the Herald’s review of skins, beginning with the five creators previously featured in the Herald, I’m happy to bring you a review today of a skin by CherryBomb Hare! The specific skin reviewed today is her dark male skin with the enhanced abdominal features for males (yes, that means male [...]

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Fashion Show Review: Retro Girl

by Chipsen Queso Tonight, I attended a “fashion show” at a new place called the “cyldane restaurant.” Calling this a fashion show is a complete and total affront to the fashion industry in SecondLife. This wasn’t a fashion show – this was having 6 outfits walk around a square without posing. The entire thing lasted [...]

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Mainland Sim Sells for $1800 in LL Auction

Auction winner Philo Hatfield by Prokofy Neva Following through on promised land auction price changes announced by CEO Philip Linden last month, Linden Lab has auctioned its first whole mainland sim today for a staggering US $1800 for 63,728 m2. Lida, a wooded hilly mature sim in the new continent located next to the Allena [...]

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Cabinhead is Dead

As reported in the SL Forums, Schwanson Schlegel has pulled the plug on his Cabinhead project – a private welcome island he set up to help acclimate newbs to SL. Several reasons are given, but (1) and (5) stand out: 1) Continued shitty customer service from LL. I find it increasingly difficult to communicate with [...]

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Post Six Grrrl: montserrat Snakeankle

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, montserrat Snakeankle! Monsterrat is not only a very beautiful woman, but she is also a writer for the Herald who arrived here in February and enjoys writing and admiring things that other people do, without actually doing them herself. We at the [...]

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Commodify Me! Chapter 2

Thanks again to Clickable Culture for reporting on this little gem — A breakdown of the way Massive Incorporated‘s in-game advertising works. Seems that not only are the ads placed in the game, but the marketers collect information about the amount of time the ad is viewed by individual players, the size at which they [...]

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Simcast Project is Dead

The Simcast project is now officially defunct, yet another failed attempt at developing a player vs. player combat game within second life. The Herald is working on a full post mortem on the project (Herald Publisher Urizenus Sklar was involved in the project), but in brief it failed for a combination of reasons, including security [...]

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