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Qarl Linden Axed – Sculpties Burn In Protest
Sculptie fires rage across the grid, as angry content creators protest the layoff of Qarl Linden – a senior developer deeply involved in various forms of mesh support for the previously prim-based virtual world. It appears that Qarl did not signed the non-disparagement agreement that was a compulsory part of the severance package for the [...]
Full StoryA Plea for Help, Answered!
No Good Deed Goeth Unrewarded by Pappy Enoch, Woebegone Felon Herald readers, there am a God. Jezz am me am fitin’ for our lives in court when I gots me this-here letter from a real angel. It come through the Interweb tubes onto the jail cornputin’ machine. Here it am, edited down a bit because [...]
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 StoryFake Trial of Century Begins
Chaos in The Courtroom by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk Today Second Life held its breath, and stood well upwind, as the SL District Court heard opening arguments in the case against Pappy and Jezz Enoch. The fake hillbillies are on trial for multiple crimes, including embezzlement of fake currency, assault on a tiny, vehicular [...]
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 StoryLinden Lab Stock Sinks at SharesPost
The return of Philip Rosedale as interim CEO of Linden Lab has apparently left real world investors unmoved, as offers to sell heavily discounted Linden Lab shares sit untouched at the SharesPost.com site. While SharesPost reports sales of Linden stock at $5.50 USD/share as recently as February 2010, current offers to sell stock go begging [...]
Full StoryKal Cartier Says Nicholas Is Not A “Mafia”
…but still admits to some mischief As our readers know, there has been a recent surge of mafia activities in and around Second Life as gang activities have been more in the foreground of late. Last week, I met with two of the prominent members of Nicholas, Kal Cartier, the current commander in chief of [...]
Full StoryJezzabel and Pappy Enoch Jailed
Anti-Collectivist Artwork vandalized, Mount Rushmore plot uncovered by Journey Yellowlist, Herald Legal Desk Two recent fugitives from justice, Jezzabel and Pappy Enoch, were jailed today in the Really, Really Bad Girls Reform Facility. This prison, known for its salacious abuse of felons, has a dubious record of rehabilitation in Second Life. I was able [...]
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 StoryFirst Bank of Enoch Holler Fails
Financial Traction Impossible, Fine Art to Cover Debts by Journey Yellowlist, Financial Desk In a little over one week, deadbeat and drunken criminal virtual financier Pappy Enoch managed to lose both Linden dollars of virtual capital that he had collected to start his bank, plus another 19L in investments from two suckers avatars who came out [...]
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