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A Couple Copybot Podcasts (say that three times fast)

Actually, the first podcast is not about copybot per se, but SLlib. Johnny Ming and Walker Spaight interview SLlib h4x0rs Eddy Stryker (John Hurliman) and Bushing Spatula (Ben Byers) The Second is an episode of SecondCast, recorded *since* the copybot event, hosted by Johnny Ming, with Cristiano Midnight, Torrid Midnight (no relation), Jeremy Flagstaff, and [...]

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Why Dinosaurs are Extinct

If this cartoon is right, the trouble could have started when one dinosaur invented the “duplicator ray”! Thanks to Ryan North of Dinosaur Comics for permission to reprint this very topical strip, although he says he had no knowledge of the SL copybot phenomenon when he made it. Copybot is the Zeitgeist baby! I found [...]

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Elf King Wayfinder Leaves Second Life, Elf Clan Disbands. IBM Chairman Palmisano to Address Troops in Forbidden City.

Out with the old and in with the new. “It’s like the end of LOTR” In what is one of the saddest days in Second Life that I have known, Wayfinder Wishbringer, long time Second Life resident and ruler of the Elf Clan leaves second life today for parts unknown. Elf Clan, which boasted over [...]

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Anshe to Honor Residents’ Vote: Dishonest PR Flacks to be Banned from Dreamland Continent

Dishonest PR added to previous list of bannable offenses: griefing, theft, violation of intellectual property, sexual harassment, online rape and distribution of child pornography Anshe Chung, owner and developer of virtual real estate on the Dreamland Continent (a region supported by 400-500 simulators that constitutes 10% of the land mass and 10% of the population [...]

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Residents of 400 Dreamland Sims vote to Ban PR and Marketing Flacks!!!!!

Residents vote unrepentant flacks off of 400+ islands! In one of the most significant developments in the history of virtual worlds and Massively Multiplayer Online Games, Residents of the Second Life gated community Dreamland have voted to ban unrepentant PR Flacks from their 400-500 Sim region. Conservative estimates suggest that Dreamland consititutes 10% of the [...]

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Crayonistas talk Smack: “We pwn you SL biotches” (or something to that effect)

The Crayonista Street Gang Showing their Colors on the Mean Streets of SL Wowzers, those Crayonistas sure have their own style of smack talk. It’s the sort of raw, unvarnished street talk you might hear on Madison Avenue in front of Paul Stuart’s (certainly nothing you would hear in front of Brooks Brothers). In a [...]

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Op/Ed: Second Life Sex Worker Blasts Zee Linden’s Proposed Wardrobe Tax

Zee Linden’s Wardrobe Taxby Cardie Mahoney [Cardie Mahoney is a well-known Second Life Escort and Model, services described in more than enough detail on her web site cardiemahoney.com. She is also a frequent visitor to Crayonville, but she won't say why. I mean really, she goes to Crayonville but never *my* island? What's that about? [...]

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“$1.6 Million US Dollars Spent,” and It’s Fake (ok, what else is being faked?)

I was impressed when I check the LL homepage yesterday and saw that it was announcing $1.6 Million in “US Dollars spent” in game. But then I checked my email and found an anonymous letter from a Herald reader claiming that one million of that amount was genererated in one and half hours by a [...]

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You Thought it Wasn’t Possible: New Levels of Arrogance Achieved by PR Firm in Second Life

Well, we’ve done out best to call out the PR firms for the false claims of firsts, so you would think some of them might be getting the message. But what message are they getting exactly? In the following message leaked to the Herald, Jane McDaid of Thinkhouse PR in Ireland says exactly what she [...]

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Yet Another Fake First! Fucktards at UK’s Guardian Working Overtime Reprinting False PR

Wow, the Guardian must be churning out false PR releases just as fast as they can receive them from the PR Flacks. Check the facts asserted in corporate PR releases? The Guardian says: “Why the fuck bother. This is just a fucking video game.” Just yesterday the Guardian reprinted the false boast that Axel Springer [...]

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