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Assessing Coke’s Virtual Thirst Project: Win, Fail, or Just Another SL Dud?
Broken Crayons: Was The Virtual Thirst Contest The Last Gasp of the Crayonistas? by Urizenus Sklar I don’t know, I’m asking. I missed the event announcing the winner of the Coke Virtual Thirst Contest, and I don’t know how that event went down. As I disclosed earlier I was on an advisory panel for Coke [...]
Full StoryReligious Art for Peace In SL
Will residents listen to message of mutual respect and tolerance? by California Condor, the Evangelist of Second Life Offsetting the dark human appetite for destruction On November 12th of 2007, avatars gathered at the city of Ir Shalom at the Jewish Historical Museum for the “Cultural Origins: Pathways to Peace” Art Show where artists from [...]
Full StoryThe Great Bot Hunt – part 3
A new game in SL – finding greedhead bots perma-parked in Linden sims by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Hanshin’s sim’s mystery bot After reading the previous stories in the Great Bot Hunt series you may decide to try bot hunting yourself. In this article we cover the basics of locating the bot squatters that [...]
Full StoryThe Great Bot Hunt – part 2
Open season for Abuse Reports on bots hiding on Linden Land – landbot payback time?LL deletes one account – waits for community reaction to 20 more still hidden in plain view by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Bot stuck in the mud in Sansooyoo I first noticed a strange pattern a couple months ago while [...]
Full StoryThe Great Bot Hunt – part 1
Where do the landbots live? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk bot stuck in the ground dead center in Margery (a linden water sim) I almost admire the 150-proof chutzpah of the greedhead who has been running 20 bots hidden on land owned by Linden Lab for the last few months. Most sunlight-deprived overweight basement [...]
Full StoryGreen Lantern Core’s Heroic Epic Poetry
Failure of PN’s rumored friday griefing raid causes super hero to wax poetic [GreenLantern Excelsior sent this tale of online heroics to the Herald offices via the mojo wire saturday, with a note saying "I was inspired to write this after the big PN raid last night ended up fizzling like a wet firecracker". Is [...]
Full StoryJimbo Quality and the Comment Suppository
Official SL Herald comment policy – a look at the backoffice by Jimbo Quality Readers’ comments travel through the tubes and are carefully sorted A while ago I ‘splained how comments here work. In case you missed it, here’s a recap. You people write them, then they go thru teh internets, then they get jumbled [...]
Full StoryThe Airship
by Kris Dibou, warrior poet/pirate I was lying on my back, looking at the starsWhen an airship passed between myself and MarsGracefully it drifted in the moonlit nightAll it’s sails full, it’s balloon was glowing bright The wooden ship that hung from the large balloonHad lanterns all alit, and I could hear a tunePlayed on [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon – Two Points Off The Wind And Coming Fast
by Tiny Newt [last week's episode is here] Banished earlier from Sanctum Sanctorum Island by the owner Baron Greyson, King Fish Overdrive was ignobly forced to wait offshore in his leaky ship. King Fish was a cocky, powerful fighter whose only admitted vice was the demon rum. He had smuggled two full barrels aboard his [...]
Full StoryWeekend Attacks on World Trade Center Replica
Shocking claims by griefers – further reports of weekend metaverse chaos by Amanda Wellington Sources claim PN Griefer ‘d3adlyc0d3c’ has perpetrated multiple attacks on the World Trade Center replica and all nearby sims over the weekend using a new weapon that explodes, raining smoke and fire everywhere. The device ‘chatspams’ random nonsense and crashes clients [...]
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