Archive for March, 2010
The Epic Fail of Second Life Groups
The hypergrowth needed to create an online mass media continues to elude Second Life – but why? If Second Life is meant to be more than a 3D Potemkin village construction kit, one might expect the group and chat systems to be top priority – yet chat remains perma-gimped due to basic architectural flaws which [...]
Full StoryOutrage! Furry Captured on Video While Griefing Herald Founder!!!
A series of shocking interviews with Alphaville Herald founder Urizenus Sklar’s real life typist (Peter Ludlow) surfaced on YouTube today. Uninformed sources speculate that the sordid videos may have been filmed at the Herald’s offices in Durham, North Carolina. Yet despite the uncertain provenance of the candid interviews, it is clear that Urizenus was lucky [...]
Full StoryObvious Schism — Post 6 Box
[During the comments last week, one of my favorite avatars volunteered to pose nude for Post 6 and I immediately jumped at the chance. I met Obvious Schism at one of the Post 6 Parties and have been a big fan ever since, so it is an especial treat to present this week's Post 6 [...]
Full StoryREVIEW: Sutherland Dam Theatre of The Absurd
For those who missed last night’s performance, Crap Mariner has captured some of the zeitgeist of the Sutherland Dam theatrical troupe’s performances with a spoof of M Linden’s fixation on holding avatar based meetings in the Second Life game world. But a superficial treatment of these performances does not do justice to the effort noted [...]
Full StoryOno Shelman’s Post 6 Boob Transplants – Photoshop DRAMA!
Greetings Herald Readers I try to stay out of the comments, but as this week’s Post 6 brings up an issue that seems to speak to my credibility and the credibility of Post 6 in general, I shall address it directly. Please don’t take my silence to this point as anything except a very busy [...]
Full StoryMayor of Victoriana: $30,000 Wasted, Lindens Killed The Dream
LittleBlackDuck Lindsay – mayor of Victoriana and Tinytoriana – announced his departure from Second Life in a scathing pair of notecards distributed to residents of Victoriana’s 13 sims over the last two days. While this is a sad day for Linden Lab partisans, fans of LittleBlackDuck’s communities remain hopeful that Victoriana and Tinytoriana will be [...]
Full StorySkills Hak Tags Over 4000 Copybot Capable Avatars
Skills Hak is claiming significant success for the Gemini Cybernetics CDS anti-copybot system, and recently told the Herald "we looked up the number of uniquely flagged avatars using malicious viewers, the number is 4424. There have been around 70 appeals of which we granted 11, none of them were false posities, but extenuating circumstances". When [...]
Full StoryOno Shelman — Post 6 Grrrrl
[Ono Shelman has the distinction of being the Post 6 Model who had the longest photoshoot. UPDATE: see Post 6 Photographer Timothy Morpork's account of the shocking breast transplants in the original version of this feature. She originally contacted me in September, posed for one picture, and then came back months later for the rest [...]
Full StorySuperman In Disgrace – JLU Mole Haruhi Thespian Tells All
In an exclusive interview, Haruhi Thespian describes the infiltration of Kalel Venkman’s Justice League Unlimited of Second Life – a daring mission that led to the exposure of the JLU’s formerly secret wiki. The publication of the wiki resulted in revelations of the virtual superhero’s coordinated program of secret surveillance and harassment of other community [...]
Full StoryNeilLife Blog Blown Up – Copybot Client Claims Script Exploit
Emerald faction claims partial victory in Second Life open source viewer wars as NeilLife blog is shut down – NeilLife blog claim script exploits with the rogue client – Zyngo scripter Aargle Zymurgy says the most recent script security problem was closed by Linden Lab in November
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