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Moth Wing Avatars Swarm In Memory of Osprey Therian
About three dozen avatars gathered today in Bodega sim to honor the memory of long-time Second Life resident Osprey Therian. Ms. Therian’s real-life typist Vivian Kendall passed away December 9th after battling a number of health issues. Her impact on the Second Life community – particularly older players – was significant, and she clearly planned [...]
Full StoryRefunds For Banned Second Life Players!! SHOCK!!!
Ban hammer rebounds, hits Linden Lab’s wallet One ex-player hopes for $60,000 USD refund as class action settlement mandates payments to exiles Over the last several days, players banned from the Second Life virtual world have begun receiving notification of a proposed class action settlement (full text here) which will pay the involuntary exiles for [...]
Full StoryNSA’s Keith Alexander Loses YouTube War
1.6% approval rating for Alexander’s vision of Cybersecurity Why does everyone hate my video? Strategic blunder is probably the best description of the last week’s decision to publish Jessica Tozer’s 30 minute interview with General Keith Alexander on YouTube. What were they thinking? After the strangely-edited video was placed in the free-fire zone of open public [...]
Full StoryBruce Schneier’s Bat Signal Alarms Internet Engineers
Pixeleen Mistral interviews Mark McCahill to calm Herald technical staff I realized something was terribly wrong when The Herald’s electronic press fell *out of sync* with the soothing retro-euro-disco thump of Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories playing in the editorial offices. Normally the technical staff are careful to avoid harshing the mellow of the writers, [...]
Full StoryPhilip Rosedale Humiliated By Second Life Voice – SHOCK!!!
Captured on a YouTube video saying he had been flailing about for an hour trying to get his voice working for a live interview in Second Life, company founder Philip Rosedale confessed to having endured a “crazy painful” struggle with the declining virtual world platform. The former game god attempted to make the best of [...]
Full StoryAT&T’s Hemisphere Project: $900,000/year In Harris County, TX
How much does AT&T profit from data mining for the DEA? After reading the New York Times’ revelation that the US government pays AT&T employees to sit with DEA and local law enforcement agents and query a phone record database “that contains the records of decades of Americans’ phone calls” and and adds four billion call [...]
Full StoryiPhone 5 Map Drives Players To Waze Traffic Sensor Game
Role playing a GPS-enabled sensor in the ARG hive mind I decided to join the Waze traffic map game on my new iPhone last week, after reading far too many stories moaning about how Apple should never have dropped Google Maps from the new version of iOS. The general tone of the Apple Map coverage [...]
Full StoryTizzers Foxchase: Rock Fresh
Exclusive interview and pictures from Fort Longcat Early this week, Linden Lab destroyed the Sandvich region of Second Life and banned Sandvich land owner Sarilia Tryce and associates from the game, presumably in response to the Justice League Unlimited gang’s favorite tactics: abuse report frenzy. The JLU and their allies were spurred into action as [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Nukes Sandvich Sim
JLU gang leader claims responsibility – thanks Michael Linden for swinging banhammer Monday, Linden Lab suddenly deleted the Sandvich sim, a popular Steam-themed region in Second Life which inspired a chaotic YouTube video tribute. The Lab’s action sparked a round of protests as banned players were stripped of their virtual assets – without any sort [...]
Full StorySL in Steam: Rod Humble’s Hail Mary Pass?
10-12% drop in player concurrency since February – daily signups swoon There is no question Linden Lab CEO and Aston Villa fan Rod Humble knows his soccer. But Rod Humble seems to be taking a classic end-game page from the American football playbook – the Hail Mary pass – as he moves to market Second [...]
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