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Drilling for Dollars: Supply Linden Makes First Million
The ANWR Prim Rig at the heart of the Second Life economy. By Dow Jonas, Virtual Economy Desk Argggh my head! I had started in on the Stoli (chased occasionally with the Ararat–hard to get in these parts!) about 10 days ago on Western Christmas, knowing out here, I could party my way from Hanukkah [...]
Full StoryDisoriented
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of New Residents Experience Evaluation and Manager, Alt Depot Get ready for the big SL backlash. It’s not just Clay Shirky stirring up a shit-storm at the eggheads’ Terra Nova, prompting a new rigorous discussion of “metrics of use“. It’s not just the leftoid Guardian but now the more conservative London [...]
Full StoryElf Magic
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk. A dragon roared. An imposing arctic wolf white lion flourished his cape. Arrows whirred, and mushrooms in the glen glistened. Our lovely elven hostess, decked in a moss-green holiday gown, beckoned to us to dance, and Herald reporters skidded across the aquamarine ice. Jaycatt and a Frogg were on [...]
Full StoryHome for the Holidays
By Dyerbrook, Dept. of Family Holiday FunYes, home is the place, where…when you have to go there, they have to take you in. Tired of lag, grey squares, missing textures, bots, bits, and bobs? There’s always The Sims Online, home for many of us who write, read, and comment on the Herald. TSO is where [...]
Full StoryCampBots Draining Casino Owners
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Rumours, Conjecture, Conspiracy Theories, and Inside Dope for Inside Dopes You’ve seen CopyBots. You’ve seen anti-CopyBot spamming defeaters. You’ve seen anti-anti-CopyBot defeaters. And now…you can see hordes of spam CampBots…like zombies…with Greek names! Surely there’s an ageplay/furry angle in here, too — we’re working on it! Word is starting to [...]
Full StoryChristmas Grid Attack
By Prokofy Neva, Grief-Watch Dept. Thousands of red Santa-capped green penises rained down on Second Life in the closing hours of Christmas Day on the grid, sending many residents into a panic to try to return the self-replicating objects before they displaced builds — and crashing SL entirely for others. The grid-wide spam attack was [...]
Full StoryLand Rush!
Land frenzy has prompted some hustlers to chop up larger parcels into smaller newbie plots of only 256 m2 or ad sales parcels of 16m2 that can sell at 100 times the cost of a residential parcel. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate OMGODZORZ1111 land is through the roof! A crappy 512 m2 is [...]
Full StoryUnder Big Blue MegaPrim Skies
The tiny green dots assemble for a stress-test of the IBM four corners. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk After a somewhat rocky start with an overloaded region at the usual place in Warmouth, a meeting of the Society for Virtual Architecture, featuring IBM’s Lead Architect in SL Jessica Qin, got going at the four [...]
Full StoryHTML-On-A-Prim!
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Governance Some of you may be trapped in a laggy, hopeless event right now, where you’ll be hearing a tiresome story heard many times before about…Havoc on a Prim. Meanwhile, just minutes before that insignifcant lag-bomb hypervent is due to open, the Herald labs, known for their fabulous creation of [...]
Full StoryAimee Bites the Hand!
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Rumours, Conjecture, Conspiracy Theories, and Inside Dope for Inside Dopes Using her alter-ego Amy Weebler, Preen Prim Princess Aimee Weber, SL’s premier hypervent set-builder and metaversal marketeer, has published some very catty 2007 predictions! Oh, it’s not that big dis on the Herald’s Conspiracy Desk writer (arson-o-rape-ocide?!) — it’s what [...]
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