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Writing for The Nation – Urizenus Sklar’s Secret Shame!!!
Herald founder explains WikiLeaks and activist hackers Ignoring the life-and-death Second Life political scene for more ephemeral fare, Herald founder Urizenus Sklar (Peter Ludlow) weighs in on WikiLeaks and Hacktivist Culture at The Nation – a guilty pleasure to be sure – but one that may steer the Wikileaks debate in a more realistic direction. As [...]
Full StoryEmerald Developer Lonely Bluebird Interview
Soft Linden: I love that you guys are doing this — Lonely Bluebird: Saves you guys some work I guess This evening, Emerald developer Lonely Bluebird – a.k.a. Phox – took time away from what has certainly been a difficult day, for an exclusive interview with the Herald in which he confirmed that a leaked [...]
Full StoryYiff This Second Life Machinima!
Touching tales of furry love Second Life players’ creativity and core demographic are showcased at the not-safe-for-work www.yiffthis.com site, where romance among gay anthropomorphic woodland avatars is lovingly documented in surprisingly well produced films, complete with money shots featuring the finest in scripted prim dongs. frisky Husky in the hot tub Enticing titles such as [...]
Full StoryHerald Survives Day in DNS Hell
Domain name denied — trusted servers play SERVFAIL card A pair of rogue domain name servers have been stripped of their authoritative status and permanently banished from the Herald DNS registration after putting the alphavilleherald.com site through a nightmarish ordeal of DNS lies and deception that rendered the newspaper inaccessible to growing numbers of readers [...]
Full StoryVideo Girl Barbie Will Be Watching
Google to sponsor a line of toys with the soul of a Flip Cam next? Mattel’s latest offering – Video Girl Barbie – dances somewhere between the creepy and cool with an almost perfect sense of iconic and ironic aimed at ages 6 and up – along with what appears to be carefully scripted media [...]
Full StoryGE and NBC Place Bets On Vivox
by IntLibber Brautigan The venture capital arm of General Electric and NBC Universal, aka "Peacock Equity" has invested $2 million in Second Life voice chat provider Vivox. Vivox provides voice chat services to 30 million users, with corporate clients CCP Games, Nexon, Linden Lab, Sony Online Entertainment, and many others. Vivox will use the new [...]
Full StoryLab Nerfs SL Combat – Players Demand Server Rollback – Lab Surrenders
Friendly fire has become a serious issue that even the best of us can no longer control Non-violent protests at Help Island Public – demanding more violence in Second Life – and a furious Jira thread have resulted in a rollback of the most recent Second Life server update – an update which crippled combat [...]
Full StoryIt Has to Be Said: Time Beats Money?
I have been taking a break from Second Life lately by playing the MMO Allods Online. Its a free to play MMO similar to World of Warcraft developed by Russians. Seeing how their players respond to a situation is very telling on how MMO’s and virtual worlds might be paid for in the future. World [...]
Full StorySL-Newspaper.com Folds – Slams Lab – Shuts Doors
SL-Newspaper today announced the end of their 4 year run covering Second Life, as editor Dana Vanmoer pointed out that real life might be more important than Second Life. This news may come as a surprise to some Linden fanboys and certain comment section sock puppets – but is a common enough reason to depart [...]
Full Story1-8-7 Family Owns Carona Mafia
Another classic Second Life mafia showdown is playing out both inside Second Life and on YouTube. The conflict apparently started in early May when the Carona Mafia issued a video warning that they have been “watching closely” since the Nicholas and Sephora gang wars broke out and plan to strike soon. Although the video claims, [...]
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