Archive for November, 2005

Fashion Show Review: Munchflower at Cloud 9

by Chipsen Queso and the Mystery Collaborator After a nice, long, refreshing break from the harsh and painful world of SecondLife’s modeling industry, I decided to come back to review a show that ended up being harsh and painful. For a change of pace, a highly-respected figure from SecondLife and I collaborated on this review [...]

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Nude Skin Patch Disrobes WoW Toons!

Image stolen from mmorgy.com In an important development, it seems that a cousin of the nude skin patch that had TSO Sims dropping their drawers all over EA’s servers has now made it to massively multiplayer hack-fest World of Warcraft. The recently launched MMOrgy.com, which takes as its laudable goal the chronicling of all things [...]

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Memoirs of a Port Cos Girl, chapters 1&2

by A Slave [The following is the first installment of a serial work, written by an anonymous slave who spent much of her life on Port Cos -- a Gorean island in Second Life. Today, we present chapters 1&2 of the memoirs of a Port Cos Girl. -- U.H.] CHAPTER 1 I write because I [...]

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About Freaking Time! Lindens Threaten RL Legal Action Against Global Attackers

Hopefully, this means I don’t have to write that editorial tearing the Lindens an new one for fiddling and diddling while griefer organizations openly organize denial of service attacks on the grid. For some reason, the Lindens have been treating these attacks as “geez aren’t these kids clever” little pumpkin smashing and toilet-papering exercises, forgetting [...]

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Newsflash: Linden Firelane Foils Latest W-Hat Attack

by Walker Spaight Seems like only yesterday that Herald correspondents were warily eyeing W-Hat griefers in the wake of the group’s notorious Grid-crashing attack on Second Life. [Actually, it was two days ago. --Ed.] Well, they’re back! But this time Linden Lab whipped a new weapon out of its arsenal, slashing and burning their own [...]

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New evidence of griefer being feted by Linden Welcome Wagon.

The smoking gun! Click on the picture for full sized screenshot. Thanks to a friendly W-Hat for passing this along. — Undercover Hat

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Philip Linden: “Welcome to Second Life, Griefer!”

By Prokofy Neva, posted and edited by Undercover Hat Through one of those strange set of circumstances that make you cry, “Only in SL!,” the very first person to make it from Orientation Island to the newly-launched Help Island the other day was an avatar sporting the name Griefer Overlord. So I am told on [...]

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Rate my Linden .com

How’s my driving? Rate Second Life Support: by Pat the Rat Are you concerned about Linden behavior? Have you ever gotten mad at the way a Linden has treated you? Most people are so grateful that the Lindens are *there* that they don’t think of them as problematic, behavior-wise. They are so earnest, and so [...]

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Anshe Declares War on Ginko: “It”s a Ponzi Scheme!” (Lindens block discussion. Transparency is first casualty.)

SL Power Player and Business Girl, Anshe Chung By Dow Jonas A fierce debate about trust in financial institutions is rocking the business community of SL, pitting SL’s largest land baron, Anshe Chung, said to own SL properties valued at U.S. $200,000,against Nicholas Portocarrero, SL’s largest savings and investment bank owner, reportedly holding more than [...]

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Announcement: Nightly Meditation for Troops

meditation for safety of soldiers in IraqDate: Every NightTime: 8:00PM – 9:00PM Linden Time (60 minutes) Location: Shivar (226,187) Host: Montserrat Snakeankle Category: Charity/Support Groups Cover Charge? No If you have a friend or loved one in Iraq, please come to Tenaya Cathedral at Shivar for a time of quietness and good intention towards all [...]

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