Archive for April, 2010
Phoenix Power Outage Cripples Second Life – Blended Frappuccino Blamed
Geeks with a taste for blended frappuccinos may have been to blame for the Second Life crash that crippled the virtual world over the last 24 hours, according to Oskar Linden’s comments in the AWGroupies chat tonight. Oskar told the Herald that trouble started when the "phoenix datacenter had a complete power outage" and the [...]
Full StoryVirtual Worldwide Crash Takes Down Second Life
Serious problems apparently started in the Second Life virtual world at about 9 pm PDT Wednesday, and have continued over the last 6 hours, in what appears to have been a grid-wide crash of the world and associated services. As of this writing, Herald staff are unable to login to the world, and the Second [...]
Full StorySquattin’ Life: Part 3 – When You Got Trouble in Mind
by Jezz Enoch, Hillbilly Hellion Now you listen up good, cause I ain’t sayin’ nuffin’ two times. I gots better stuff to do, like shootin’ folks who bothers me. But since Pix done said she aims to pay me to write this-here thing up for y’all. My damn dumb brother, Pappy, who usually wastes your [...]
Full StoryDebbie Hazelnut — Post 6 Grrrrl
[It's not often that I feature my friends as Post 6 models. This week is an exception to that, as Debbie Hazelnut is such a close friend to my wife that they call themselves sisters. The closest she's been to posing for us, until now, is offering us last week's model, her boyfriend Makes Magic. [...]
Full StoryLoki Clifton: The Lab Was Not Respecting The Deal We Made
Loki Clifton’s Second Life consulting business is in trouble. Until Wednesday, Loki was a gold level solutions provider for Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life. But according to Mr. Clifton, despite months of negotiations and an agreement to expand Woodbury University’s Second Life presence, everything suddenly changed Tuesday when the Lindens abruptly terminated accounts [...]
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast: Harry Linden Cheaps Out on Bears
Apparently erasing all signs of Woodbury from the grid became Harry Linden’s top priority sometime wednesday morning. I had just stopped by the Woodbury parcel in Ravenglass sim to take a picture of the plot when all the objects present disappeared! Despite the destruction, I was elated – the reclusive Lindens were almost certainly in [...]
Full StoryIn the Belly of the Beast: Pooky’s Second Life Game Show
After tiring of watching game god M Linden’s avatar auto-smile, I looked toward the back of the room and noticed the ash-colored untextured Kalel Venkman – a virtual vigilante prone to filing frivolous DMCA takedown notices. I was going to have some questions for Kalel later – and the scene was already more than weird. [...]
Full StoryZero Dark Thirty: The Last Days of Carmen Hermosillo
[In response to Mark Stephen Meadows and Peter Ludlows' analysis in H+ magazine, Margarite Hermosillo offers this account of the last days of her sister Carmen Hermosillo (aka humdog, aka Montserrat Tovar, aka Montserrat Snakeankle, aka Sparrowhawk Perhaps). While the game gods, board trolls, and various factions play out their games, I hope this account [...]
Full StoryBNT Claims $500,000 USD in Damages – Hopes to Join Class Action Lawsuit
Intlibber Brautigan notified the Herald today that he has applied to join a virtual land class action lawsuit against Linden Lab and Philip Rosedale which was filed April 15th. The complaint alleges that after inducing players to join Second life with claims they "would receive and retain all right, title, interest, copyright and intellectual property [...]
Full StorySHOCK! Defne Demar Joins Herald Staff – Instantly Outs Herself!!!
by Idoru Wellman, staff writer In a press release today, Pixeleen Mistral and Urizenus Sklar announced Defne Demar has joined the Herald staff. Ms. Demar ended minutes of speculation by admitting her real life typist is none other than Burcu S. Bakioglu – a noted new media scholar who authored Spectacular Interventions of Second Life: [...]
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