Archive for April, 2007

LL Mysteries Revealed By Accidental God Mode

Lab can’t afford a legitimate site certificate for internal web server? by Inigo Chamerberlin [As reported earlier, Herald correspondent Inigo Chamerberlin was mysteriously granted game god-mode powers temporarily this Easter. Before his powers evaporated, he was able to file this report from the heavens - and take a number of screen shots - included here [...]

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Accidental God Mode – An Easter Surprise

What would Jesus do? by Inigo Chamerberlin, temporary metaverse deity Ok, so, it’s Easter Sunday, and because Spring has finally arrived on my island I’m fiddling with terrain textures, new plantings, animal and insect life, all the minutiae that go into running an attempt at a natural sim. I was also trying to track down [...]

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Casino Owners Unimpressed With Linden Crackdown

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk While Azno Simons seems particularly eager to comply with the Linden lab staffers attempt to clean up at least the gambling aspect of Second Life – other metaverse casino owners have a different perspective. Mr. Simons may be a unique case, since he more interested in advertising his web-based [...]

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Interview with PalmVegas Honcho Azno Simons

Sim owner uses off-limits casino to promote web gambling site -lures noobies with innovative automated SL cybersex classroom by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Azno Simons on duty keeping US Citizens out of the PalmVegas Casino Hoping to explore the motivations for an SL casino owner who sent out high profile press releases to media [...]

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Orange County Choppers Builds Intel A Bike

by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games What does Intel need a bike for? Alright, I get it – it’s an illustration of the “raw power” of their new quad-core processing… whatevers. If they’re really interested in bringing this message of hardcore super-powerful computing awesomeness, though, why in the world would they want [...]

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Manoa ARG Launches In Second Life

by Onder Skall — courtesy of Second Life Games Following up on a tip left by Second Life Games reader Spysect (aka Eddie Hagoromo) a new Alternate Reality Game has been discovered here in Second Life. The website Discover Manoa! details a failed colonization attempt and a mysterious disaster. From the website: The board has [...]

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Uma Troell – Post 6 Grrrl

[Editrix’s note: Uma Troell’s hard work has paid off in a big way - as my super friend Marilyn Murphy - the visionary, photographer, and publisher of Players - SL’s in-world erotica magazine - will tell you. After we put the evening edition of the Herald to bed, the entire Herald staff is heading over [...]

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Oops! There Goes the Pr0n too…and the Lindens Observe the Holidays

By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs OK, so your favourite casino and dance-pad house had to close down over the Feds bustin’ in. Alright, so that ageplay club you once sampled has had to close because of Chadrick Linden carding them. So your teleporter isn’t working. And geez, with the grid messed up again, [...]

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Op/Ed: Holiday Drama – As Usual?

by Inigo Chamerberlin As if it’s not bad enough that LL has to keep ‘updating’ or ‘maintaining’ SL on Wednesdays, thus guaranteeing that the consequent chaos continues over the weekend – because LL insists on running San Francisco office hours only, with apparently no cover outside those hours except a couple of unfortunate Grid Monkeys [...]

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