Archive for 'News from Second Life'
Interspecies Intermingling on Upswing in Second Life
So the other day my friend BB, and by the way I’ve changed everyone’s name in this whole story, IM’d me and said she wanted to drop by and she had her new boyfriend with her. She popped in and she was with a furry and we’re all like WTF? every girl <3 horses – [...]
Full StoryMeeroo Food Supply Safe At Last Thanks To Cordon Sanitaire?
Scammers denied access to sim-edge no-rez exploit Roo sim – the home base for in-world access to vital Meeroo food supplies – is now encircled with a quarantine corridor in hopes of blocking scammers from using an exploit to create objects in unauthorized areas. Will this novel parcel configuration become a “best practice” for those [...]
Full StoryMeeroo Scandal No Surprise – LL Hides Behind Privacy Shield
Linden Lab doesn’t fix exploits or provide customer service – it’s business as usual, then? A predictable scandal erupted over the last few days as Meeroos began abandoning their owners to wander the grid in search of food. Meeroos are a popular form of virtual pet that require continual petting and feeding with scripted food [...]
Full StorySLCC 2011: Mesh Hair Net Shortages May Threaten Convention
Pixeleen Mistral’s typist to speak at SLCC identity and privacy session Will Linden staff don celebratory mesh hair nets at the Second Life Community Conference to mark the long awaited release of mesh object support for the prim-based virtual world? SL content creators and certain OEM suppliers hope so, and the chances of sighting Linden staff with [...]
Full StorySecond Life: Sex, Hair and Dancing!!!
by Debbie So, my friends all like my stories and want me to write about the normal stuff we do. That could get tedious, but I did have an interesting conversation the other day. I was bitching to my friend about how slow and shitty SL is all the time. People are gray for a [...]
Full StoryShocking ‘Man-of-Steel’ Incident Mars SL SciFi Convention
Kalel “Steely Dan” Venkman griefed with his own path light prims I’m not sure why anyone would think it was a good idea to invite the Justice League Unlimited to the Second Life Science Fiction Convention 4 held earlier this month – and further compound the problem by placing the JLU plot directly next to the [...]
Full StoryGoogle+ Suspends Pixeleen Mistral – Nerfs Data Liberation Front
Exactly who owns my G+ social graph – and why won’t Google let me download it anymore? I was a relatively early Google+ user and spent the last few weeks adding friends to Google+ circles. In doing this I implicitly promoted Google’s seriously over-hyped circle-centric Facebook clone by sending invitations to friends. This was probably [...]
Full StoryGo Support Relay for Life, Bitches.
Second Life land squatter takes a virtual walk for charity by Debbie My friends told me that my first article was so good you’d like more. Here. Me and a friend went to check out the Relay for Life in Second Life. It’s pretty cool. I recommend you check it out, but don’t go there [...]
Full StorySquatting Second Life
A world being abandoned so fast the Lab can’t keep up with the foreclosures by Debbie two sisters live free in Second Life On April 13, 2010 the Alphaville Herald posted a story about how to squat on virtual land, written by my genius hero, Pappy Enoch. The next day I went soaring over the [...]
Full StorySHOCK!!! Rez-Anywhere Exploit P0wns No-Rez Land!!!
For at least the last two months, a permission system exploit has allowed anyone – even those unauthorized by Second Life landowners – to create objects on “no-rez” or restricted land. This surprising news suggests players wishing to limit use of their virtual cyber-paradise may need to set aside time to patrol their holdings, or [...]
Full Story
Recent Comments