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The Dark Lord Speaks: Interview with Dimentox Travanti
In this interview we talk with Dimentox Travanti, who is the author of the Dark Combat System that some of you have seen in operation around the grid. In its current state it includes numerous races, and virtually any weapon in SL can be integrated into the system, since the damage system operates on collision [...]
Full StoryTotal Infosphere Domination
I ran into these stats via a link on the SLCC site. Here is the main page. As the figures show, the Herald media family (from the SL Herald to our publisher and editor Walker Spaight’s 3pointD, to our Conspiracy Theory Desk reporter Prokofy Neva’s Second Thoughts) completely dominates the SL infosphere. Actually, for all [...]
Full Story2 million residents customers served visitors accounts created
The explosive recent growth of Second Life continued today, with the total number of residents customers served visitors accounts created crashing through the two million mark, as shown in this graph. Ooops, wrong one. Here we go…
Full Story$655,000 Spent in 24 hours, but is it 80% (illegal) Gambling?
A few weeks ago, we reported an experiment by Anonymous, in which he wrote a script that allowed him to pass money back and forth between two avatars for an hour and a half. In that amount of time he was able to move the equivalent of $1 million US between his two avatars, and [...]
Full StoryAnother SL First? French Extreme Right Political Party Opens Office in Second Life
French National Front allegedly opens SL offices. Can a visit from Le Pen be far behind? Well, we’ve had our share of nazi’s and skinheads and whatnot in Second Life, but I do believe that if this is not a hoax it will be the first outside extreme right — some would say Fascist — [...]
Full StoryCrayonista States the Obvious: The Herald Message is Viral!
So picture this. I’m on the Herald Yacht steaming through the Bosphorus on my way from the Sea of Marmara to the Black Sea. The sun is rising and I am enjoying a delicious breakfast of iced turtle eggs and white melon with Turkish feta cheese sprinkled with Russian Osetra cavia. Delicious! Naturally, I am [...]
Full StoryBig Brother Opening Hypervent Griefed for 4 Hours
Cages, fires, and guns, but “No Security Whatsoever”Anonymous crashes Big Brother house and griefs it for 4 hours. Leaves her photo as souveinir. reported by Urizenus and Herald Jessie Stringer DK Well, the SL Press corps is really good at hyping forthcoming hypervents, but they are not so good at telling us what happend at [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab *Still* Hates Academic Freedom *and* the Free Press
It seems like just yesterday we were complaining about the Linden policies on academic freedom and free press. Not long after, we addressed Lindens about the matter face to face, and I do mean like in Real Life (remember that?). So we were eager to see what changes would be made to the Research Ethics [...]
Full StoryBushmen Explore Second Life
The intrepid explorers of the Something Awful Forms have a new Second Life Safari posted – this time not led by the crew of the Star Ship Prokofy Neva, but rather by a tribe of bushmen. One really must go to the photo essay to get the full impact, but this little machinima summary is [...]
Full StoryHamlet Au’s Shocker Scoop: Bill Gates not a Billionaire!!!
Wow, this post by Hamlet Au nee Linden totally woke me from my dogmatic slumbers. Hamlet doesn’t really say Gates *isn’t* a billionaire, he just shows that the chain of conditionals that has to hold in order for Bill to really truly be billionaire is so long that serious people would never consider him a [...]
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