Archive for March, 2007
Sign-Extortionist Masons Help Coldwell Banker into Second Life
Mason and sign extortionist Chrischun Fassbinder, notorious for the Mr. Lee’s Hong Kong signs, and Ancient Shriner, another spinning sign-griefer, bring RL real estate firm Coldwater Banker to SL. Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Oh, no, here we go again. Remember how Philip told us that when big business came to Second Life, that [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Contemplating Second Life’s Demise
by Onder Skall, courtesy of SLGames This just has to be said. The Herald recently featured an announcement about the YearlyKos Convention using 8 sims with 4 more set aside as backups. Many of us read that and thought: “Oh, ok, I might actually be able to go to this event without the sim crashing.” [...]
Full StoryShock! Philip Linden Invites Plastic Duck to Apply for Job at Linden Lab
What happens when notorious griefer Plastic Duck (aka Patrick Sapinski) inquires about the job of CTO Jedi at Linden Lab? Behold: Hi Patrick, thanks for the contact! I don’t think you are a fit for the operations role, but you might want to apply for one of the engineering positions, from the description of your [...]
Full StorySL PR Disasters Game
King Philip needs help with headlines by Onder Skall We had a lot of fun with our last crowd sourced game, so logically I thought I’d better keep thinking up new ones until we’ve run the idea into the ground and everybody’s sick to death of it. No points for being the first person in [...]
Full StorySecond Life Client Is A Virus – Sophos
Pirates may have to find another way to download FF Meta Book font by Curious Rousselot, Magical Affairs desk Lewis Page reported in The Register today that “Sophos to bar Second Life on work computers“. The article itself was actually a fairly high level summary of Sophos Anti-Virus’ ability to block most MMORPG software from [...]
Full StorySL Makes Meta Fonts Free For 4 Million+ Residents
Should be Linden Lab be sharing the love this way? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Typeface geeks may be pleasantly surprised to find that the Second Life software includes a pair of commercial (not freeware) TrueType fonts which are trivial to extract from the SL software and install into Macintosh or PCs for general [...]
Full StoryPicking the Toaster with Pella Tully
Prokofy Neva, Tech Talkback Dept. Limbering up to cover next week’s Virtual Worlds 2007, a conference in New York that promises to be a kind of 1964 World’s Fair, I dropped in on CNET after getting one of GreeterDan Godel’s group messages. Pella Tully (Caterina Fake is her RL name), co-founder of Flickr and Yahoo [...]
Full StorySCANDAL!!! SL’s Next Top Model… Has a Twin?
Copycat drama in the SL fashion world – SHOCK! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista models from the “tilde” group BooBooKittie Haight, proprieter and brains behind Catwalk City, has a problem. Her brainchild, the “SL Next Top Model” (SLNTM) contest, has a competitor with exactly the same name plus a tilde: “ ~SL Next Top Model~”. [...]
Full StorySurface Tension
by Fiend Ludwig It is a pond and I live on the surface tension. I suspect that the same is true, too,For the New Priests:The blogger-kings and scripter-czars,The kulaks and uber-griefers and Linden-spawn.Drilling through the boundary at will,Extracting enrichment and inspiration.Submerging only if pressed, While the uninitiated drown amongst the choke of weeds. It has [...]
Full StoryGiuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)
[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring [...]
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