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EXTRA! EXTRA! BARONS LOSE BIG WITH TELEHUB REMOVALS; ANSHE STARTS CASH OUT
All that’s left of a once busy SL Telehub by Dow Jonas In a move that is likely to cause profound economic and social changes to Second Life, Linden Lab announced last week in the official Linden forums that it will be enabling the platform for point-to-point teleporting (p2p) and removing telehubs, the main portals [...]
Full StoryEVE Extra: Deep-Space Outpost Goes Public in $8,100 Deal
It’s no mistake that EVE Online‘s player organizations are known as corporations. Though Second Life has seen a number of start-ups that have required resident stakeholding and investment, a recent IPO by EVE corp Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has set a new mark for virtual-world business dealings, having raised 36 billion in InterStellar Kredits, the equivalent [...]
Full StoryW-Hats to Build Set for Next Presidential Speech?
That’s a suggestion posted to this discussion on the Democratic Underground web site (scroll down for a screen shot taken in Second Life). Yep, Bush and the W-Hats — imagine the possibilities.
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Ava Fleming
The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Ava Fleming! Ava has a personal consulting business within SecondLife to help you with all of your personal consulting needs and says that she loves riding her SL horse! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this [...]
Full StoryA Solution to the SL Lolita Gap? Bring on the Goth Lolitas!
by Kendra Charlton The Lolita look; while it has become increasingly popular in Japan, I have never seen a Lolita in SecondLife. I even joined a Lolita club but I have yet to see any of my fellow group members come online. So I asked myself, “why are there so few Lolitas in SL?” Perhaps [...]
Full StoryNude Skin Patch Disrobes WoW Toons!
Image stolen from mmorgy.com In an important development, it seems that a cousin of the nude skin patch that had TSO Sims dropping their drawers all over EA’s servers has now made it to massively multiplayer hack-fest World of Warcraft. The recently launched MMOrgy.com, which takes as its laudable goal the chronicling of all things [...]
Full StoryAbout Freaking Time! Lindens Threaten RL Legal Action Against Global Attackers
Hopefully, this means I don’t have to write that editorial tearing the Lindens an new one for fiddling and diddling while griefer organizations openly organize denial of service attacks on the grid. For some reason, the Lindens have been treating these attacks as “geez aren’t these kids clever” little pumpkin smashing and toilet-papering exercises, forgetting [...]
Full StoryNewsflash: Linden Firelane Foils Latest W-Hat Attack
by Walker Spaight Seems like only yesterday that Herald correspondents were warily eyeing W-Hat griefers in the wake of the group’s notorious Grid-crashing attack on Second Life. [Actually, it was two days ago. --Ed.] Well, they’re back! But this time Linden Lab whipped a new weapon out of its arsenal, slashing and burning their own [...]
Full StoryNew evidence of griefer being feted by Linden Welcome Wagon.
The smoking gun! Click on the picture for full sized screenshot. Thanks to a friendly W-Hat for passing this along. — Undercover Hat
Full StoryPhilip Linden: “Welcome to Second Life, Griefer!”
By Prokofy Neva, posted and edited by Undercover Hat Through one of those strange set of circumstances that make you cry, “Only in SL!,” the very first person to make it from Orientation Island to the newly-launched Help Island the other day was an avatar sporting the name Griefer Overlord. So I am told on [...]
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