Archive for February, 2007
SL Grid Powered by Hamster Wheel
Exercise wheel credited for recent improvements in Grid performance by Hotlips Tornado, Metaverse Infrastructure expert Auxiliary power station for the grid The Grid seems to have been stable for several days. The Wednesday update only took an hour more than it was meant to, teleports are mostly working, hair is usually staying on heads and [...]
Full StoryIs Ageplay “Child Porn”?
by Bayesian TextBot With reports that the Dutch prosecutor’s office is seeking a ban on what it sees as child pornography in Second Life, some may wonder if this is primarily Dutch political grandstanding. With no actual crime or abuse case to cite, legislation may prove difficult. The intention now is to bring some cases [...]
Full StoryDutch to Prosecute for Virtual Child Porn?
Possible paedophile school closing by Curious Rousselot, virtual correspondent Kitty Nooij of the prosecutor’s office in the Netherlands told told the Dutch news show Netwerk that they would try to bring cases of virtual child pornography to court, according to a story in The Register by Jan Libbenga. According to Libbenga’s article, “Virtual child pornography [...]
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Full StoryEvil Genius in Second Life
Trebuchets, Plant Express, and Rube Goldberg by Curious Rousselot, Evil Correspondent The Evil Genius Organization of Second Life are settling into Saphira sim with the requisite dark, ominous castle and a nearby town to suppress already in place. They defend the new foreboding castle with extremely large and working trebuchets. Did I mention the Trebuchet [...]
Full StoryNew Far-East Continent Located
56 news sims of rolly polly land – for starters by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk a new first-land free zone? The mainland virtual land printing press continues to spew new sims into the metaverse, and after a tip from Wrestling Hulka, the Herald finally found the “new continent” the Lindens have been coyly hinting [...]
Full StorySecond Life Economics Puffery
The Register hating on Second Life by Curious Rousselot, virtual correspondent Shaun Rolph at The Register dissects the phony economics of Second Life and how the mainstream media has latched onto SL as “The Next Big Thing”(tm). Rolph concludes that based on churn rate statistics provided by Linden Lab, the population of returning residents is [...]
Full StorySL Capitol Hill Anti-War Protests
Sun honcho John Gage joins virtual protests by Onder Skall February 20, 2007, 14:45 SL Time – Capitol Hill sim Protesters from a wide variety of groups converged on the Capitol Hill sim today to speak out against the proposed attacks on Iran. Word spread from one group to the next organically, and suddenly the [...]
Full StorySecond Land Only in Second Life – First Land Banned
Mainland land market may be flooded soon by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Jack Linden took time from an important search and rescue mission today to announce that the Lab has discontinued – without any advance notice – the subsidized “first land” purchase program for Premium account holders. First Land allowed Second Life subscription account [...]
Full StoryDynasty Building
SL name retirement policy evolving – Daniel Linden’s dynastic plight by Fiend Ludwig, Metaverse Genealogist In real life, millions of people might share the same surname. A quick review of online census data reveals that there are about 4 million Smiths on the planet, that 300,000 Norwegians are called Jensen – 6.6% of Norway’s population, [...]
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