The Alphaville Herald

Is Rathe Sniffing Our Packets?

By Dow Jonas While the story this week is FBI agents possibly coming to sniff round Second Life to see if charges of denial-of-service attacks can be filed, another story about possible land-baron packet-sniffing is percolating up through SL-related blogs and the official forums. Rathe Underthorn, a long-time resident and land dealer, has been quietly [...]

Extra!!: Philip Calls the FBI. W-Hats Shit Themselves

by Dow Jonas Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab, announced at a resident virtual winter holiday party in Second Life’s Wengen today that he is turning to real-world authorities to investigate Monday’s deliberate crashing of his virtual world’s grid. When the party was bombed today by a griefer with pixelated C-4, Rosedale, whose avatar is [...]

Gone in 60 Seconds

Even the Herald is bored with global attacks and grid crashings these days, there are so many of them. But the cleanup from Monday’s attack had an interesting side-effect. Many objects were wiped from the grid. Here is how the Lindens described what happened: Tonight started as a run-of-the-mill gray-goo style attack. We had essentially [...]

Lessig Coming to SL?

Portrait of Lessig stolen from http://www.globalhome.com/paintings/2003/lessig.html Hammie Linden is reporting that Lawrence Lessig is coming to Second Life in avatar form. Wow. That is huge. In my humble opinion Lessig is the most important legal figure alive, since he is working on issues that have maximal impact on our future — issues ranging from intellectual [...]

Let the Island Wars Begin

by Dow Jonas No sooner did Linden Lab put an island + frills up for sale on eBay (apparently to show Project Entropia they ain’t all that), but now Anshe Chung has raised the stakes, challenging with an island of her own for sale on eBay, and she has sweetened the pot with additional perks. [...]

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Entropia Envy Leads to Island Auction with Frills Attached.

Thanks to Zero Grace/Rat Boy/Tony Walsh for this pointer. I’ve often wondered if it didn’t chafe Philip’s behind to see the eminently lame Project Entropia score big publicity for its island auctions. I guess it did, because now LL is gunning for similar publicity (and observe: we enable them in the enterprise!). Here is the [...]

The Furni Whores of Habbo Hotel

I must live under a rock. So many scandals and incidents of elemental weirdness manage to just pass me by. Yet, now and then I get a chance to play catch-up. Last night it was in an underground dive bar known as the 8-Ball, and a kindly grad student told me about the “furni whores” [...]

EA to Pay $680 Mil for Jamdat Mobile

EA Corporate Headquarters Last new years I predicted that EA would shell out a billion for another game company. I’m saying that their purchase of Jamdat Mobile is close enough to count as a score. Notice I also predicted a griefer attack that took out the SL grid. I’m just wiping the floor with Cory [...]

Announcement: CBC Radio looking for Toronto area SLers

Thanks to Zero Grace for passing along this message: The pilot episode of a new radio show airing on CBC Radio intends onfeaturing one or more Second Life residents in their daily onlineactivities. Lindsay Michael from the show is looking to get in tough withToronto, Canada residents who spend a lot of time in Second [...]