Archive for the year 2011
Steve — Post 6 Adonis DNA Tigerblood Boil
[I was standing in my studio when one of the most repulsive avatars I have ever seen skittered in on little malformed legs. I immediately recognized the oversized and overbearing head, with its uncanny resemblance to Charlie Sheen’s Id, as belonging to the boil that had recently afflicted Herald writer Jimbo Quality. I had no [...]
Full StoryThe Hand What Taketh
by Pappy Enoch, Philanthropist My enormus fan klub at the Herald will know that I gits me a heap o’ mail thru them-there Internet-tubes. I done writ about this befo’ but I reckon it are too good to omit when it happens again. In fact, I done got this-hear same letter a year ago from [...]
Full StoryzFire Xue Interview: RedZone is not Spyware
RedZone protects users from 77283 people they have banned plus their alts The zF RedZone security scanner scandal continues to churn, creating what seems to be a nearly unstoppable epic thread in the SL Universe forums which has grown to over 320 pages (8100 posts) as of this writing. At the heart of the controversy [...]
Full StoryJustanother Oompa — Post 6 Guy
[Every so often a gaggle of friends and I head out onto the grid to see what's new, get a dose of "Hooooooo's" at a club, and generally have a good time. On one recent sojourn we met Justa, one of the more clever conversationalists I've met on the grid and possessor of several great [...]
Full StoryRedZone Circles the Drain
Everyone who isn’t spoofing their IP, mac, or volume serial ID… leave Unmistakable signs of FAIL hover over zFire Xue’s controversial RedZone “security” device after Linden Lab amended the community standards Thursday to require player permission before alt account information can be shared inside Second Life. RedZone has been marketed as an anti-copybot and anti-griefing [...]
Full StoryJimbo Quality and the RedZone of Danger
by Jimbo Quality Jimbo Quality and the RedZone Danger Zone I was the only one in the Herald’s Jessie Bunker Bureau when a call came in on the hot story tip line. The conversation went something like this. Caller: Look, you guys really should do a story on this Red Zone thing. Jimbo Quality: Call [...]
Full StoryRedZone HUD Forced To Ask to Reveal Alt Accounts
by Justine Babii On July 30 of last year, a user known as Helena asked the SLUniverse forums the following question: “I would just like to ask who is truly concerned about this product on Xstreet now more than ever. Please Lets not turn this into a big Slandering Debate, or a Flame, or /B/ [...]
Full StoryDo the Prokonova – SL’s Next Dance Craze?
Chantal Harvey and Phaylen Fairchild broke out the chroma key – and busted some moves – in an instant classic YouTube response to serial google bomber and internet bully Prokofy Neva’s recent whinescraper. The video’s credits detail the gestures that make up Chantal and Phaylen’s dance routine, including Funnyfarm, Do you take it in the [...]
Full StoryPlastic Duck Returns To Second Life!!!
Linden Lab reinstates iconic grid crasher’s account “Plastic Duck hasn’t returned, Plastic Duck never dissapeared I just got my vanity plates back ” – Plastic Duck Could an era of universal peace and understanding in Second Life be dawning? Did Linden Lab actually reverse a perma-ban on one the most colorful residents of the metaverse? [...]
Full StoryHippiestock and the Sense of Community
by Sigmund Leominster “So shines a good deed in a naughty world.” Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice. The 21st century has gotten off to a good start by taking all the selfish tendencies of the 1980’s and layering on a liberal slathering of cynicism and weariness, wrapped in narcissism, irony, and pseudo-intellectualism that makes it [...]
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