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SL PR Disasters Game
King Philip needs help with headlines by Onder Skall We had a lot of fun with our last crowd sourced game, so logically I thought I’d better keep thinking up new ones until we’ve run the idea into the ground and everybody’s sick to death of it. No points for being the first person in [...]
Full StorySecond Life Client Is A Virus – Sophos
Pirates may have to find another way to download FF Meta Book font by Curious Rousselot, Magical Affairs desk Lewis Page reported in The Register today that “Sophos to bar Second Life on work computers“. The article itself was actually a fairly high level summary of Sophos Anti-Virus’ ability to block most MMORPG software from [...]
Full StorySL Makes Meta Fonts Free For 4 Million+ Residents
Should be Linden Lab be sharing the love this way? by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Typeface geeks may be pleasantly surprised to find that the Second Life software includes a pair of commercial (not freeware) TrueType fonts which are trivial to extract from the SL software and install into Macintosh or PCs for general [...]
Full StoryPicking the Toaster with Pella Tully
Prokofy Neva, Tech Talkback Dept. Limbering up to cover next week’s Virtual Worlds 2007, a conference in New York that promises to be a kind of 1964 World’s Fair, I dropped in on CNET after getting one of GreeterDan Godel’s group messages. Pella Tully (Caterina Fake is her RL name), co-founder of Flickr and Yahoo [...]
Full StorySCANDAL!!! SL’s Next Top Model… Has a Twin?
Copycat drama in the SL fashion world – SHOCK! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista models from the “tilde” group BooBooKittie Haight, proprieter and brains behind Catwalk City, has a problem. Her brainchild, the “SL Next Top Model” (SLNTM) contest, has a competitor with exactly the same name plus a tilde: “ ~SL Next Top Model~”. [...]
Full StoryGiuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)
[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring [...]
Full StoryHere Come the Kossacks!
Hijinks and Revelry at the YearlyKos Convention, Now Coming to an SL Island Near You! If you are at all involved in progressive politics you will know about the Daily Kos website. Employing an interesting AJAX powered social media software in which diary entries can be promoted to the main thread and in which comments [...]
Full StoryCrowd Sourced Fun at the Herald!
by Onder Skall Game Set Watch recently posted “Perpetuating Game Naming Stereotypes For Fun/Profit“. It was a contest to come up with the world’s most stereotypical game name. The results were pretty awesome. I think “WWII: World War II” was my favorite. Of course, these things never stay contained, and soon Kotaku commenters were coming [...]
Full StorySearching for Nirvana
God and the weather (channel) in Second Life by Jimbo Quality, on temporary assignment to the Herald spirituality extreme sports desk Jimbo Quality and friend [Editor’s Note: We had hoped feared that correspondent Jimbo Quality had been lost forever in his ramblings around the grid, until we received the following dispatch, scribbled on cocktail napkins [...]
Full StoryGoons’ Ban Game – SL Relay for Life Fund Raising
Public invited to purchase words that may not be spoken – for charity0h d4mn 1t 1 h4t3 l33t sp34k by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk careful what you say Some of those that frequent Baku sim or hang with the W-Hat goons are known for a willingness to push the limits of community tolerance up [...]
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