Archive for 'News You Can Abuse'

iPhone 5 Map Drives Players To Waze Traffic Sensor Game

Role playing a GPS-enabled sensor in the ARG hive mind I decided to join the Waze traffic map game on my new iPhone last week, after reading far too many stories moaning about how Apple should never have dropped Google Maps from the new version of iOS.  The general tone of the Apple Map coverage [...]

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Noam Chomsky, Anonymous Speak Out on Rap News

#Occupy2012 video documents live manifestation of Prophetseer Emeritus “Turn off your TVs for a start” Featuring a healthy dose of pepper spray – which sources on the UC Davis campus recently learned is basically a food product – the latest Rap News release from TheJuiceNews continues Robert Foster’s grand tradition of “turning bollocks-news into socio-poetic/comedic [...]

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Meeroo 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 [...]

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Squatting 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 [...]

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SHOCK!!! 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 [...]

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The Hand What Taketh

by Pappy Enoch, Philanthropist My enormus fan klub at the Herald will know that I gits me a heap o’ mail thru them-there Internet-tubes. I done writ about this befo’ but I reckon it are too good to omit when it happens again. In fact, I done got this-hear same letter a year ago from [...]

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Nicholas Mafia Patch Illicit Viewers — Trash Sephora Gang Site

The Linden Lab crackdown on  third party viewers may be having unintended consequences — at least one in-world mafia has released a collection of what are claimed to be patched illicit viewers that can circumvent the Linden blocks on banned Second Life client software. Apparently, to be a gangsta means running a viewer with extra [...]

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Support Virtuality — Help Game A Netflix Popularity Contest!!!

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer The Netflix “Find Your Voice film competition” is a great new game where everyone can participate by forming gangs to vote for the independent film maker that best represents their community and interests. Consider this a more positive version of the gang abuse report used in Second Life to get [...]

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A Virtual Pilgrim’s Progress — The First Part

A newbie learns how to dance, finds a job, considers an avatar sex change by Roby Core I was reading some Google news the first time I’d ever heard about the Second life virtual world, and I thought it would have been childish stuff, but I got curious, and now I’ve picked a very basic [...]

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How to Skin a Cat (or a Neko)

by Stacia Villota, virtual Neko Jungle Voodoo’s Leopard skins, “Neko style” (click any of these photos to enlarge) One of the questions I hear most often is where to find good skins for Nekos. While it would be easy to provide the names of the most popular Neko stores that sell skins, I prefer a [...]

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