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Google+ 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 StoryFreespirit Crumb — Post 6 Grrrrl
Freespirit Crumb was recommended to me by a friend of mine who said “[She] is probably the hottest hobo on the grid.” As I’ve seen quite a number of SL Hobos, all of them interesting avatars, I was especially interested in meeting a hot one. I was not disappointed, and she goes a lot beyond [...]
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 Story2 July 4th Post 6 Grrrrrrls
While I normally try to get a past Post 6 Model to feature for special holiday pictorials, for this year’s 4th of July, I happened to have on hand my beautiful wife, who you see in the first picture, and who, as a Brit, is a fantastic representative of Colonial America in our pictorial salute [...]
Full StoryAnonymous to Launch HackerLeaks
Not too long ago Peter Ludlow noted that the recent prominence of Internet activist groups such as Wikileaks is symptomatic of a new generation of hacktivist culture that is quickly transforming from a small underground subculture into mainstream culture for a younger generation. Calling this new generation of hacktivists “Generation W,” Peter Ludlow observed that [...]
Full StoryRandy Filmmaker Reveals Cyber-secrets!
Sunday screening of “My Avatar and Me” proves arrow button key to Second Life bliss!!! Actor/director Mikkel Stolt will host an online presentation of the “documentary fiction” My Avatar and Me Sunday on constelation.tv. The film is billed as a journey into cyberspace which becomes a magic learning experience. Based on the trailer, the story seems to revolve around [...]
Full StoryFascination — Post 6 Grrrrl
[When I met this week’s Post 6, I was the one with the deer-in-the-headlights look, because as you can see, she is an avatar that can literally stop traffic. I was thrilled when Fascination agreed to pose for us, and even more happy to learn that she is as nice a person as she is [...]
Full StoryOf Visionary Art and Unpaid Tier: Ina Centaur vs Linden Lab
by Lora Constantine Two years and L$15 million fundraised later for an arts nonprofit based completely in Second Life, Ina Centaur gives up the warcry that galvanized hundreds of thousands to donate. “The arts vs. tier” was Ina Centaur’s call – a call that united the residents of Second Life to support the once-heretical cause [...]
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