Today in Second Life, Thursday April 12, 2007

By Prokofy Neva, Meaningless Numbers Cruncher and Irrelevant Facts Driller Today in Second Life: o if you add up all the numbers of today’s date, you get the number 7, which is the number of holes in the human heado Some Linden must be getting a pay-off as there are $26,000 in SINKS for April [...]

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Op/Ed: Herald Condemns Wei’s Stance on Prim Babies

Candidate Romana Wei: Put the Prim Babies to Work Several Days ago, the Herald reported the efforts of Mrs. President Chomsky in her crusade against blingtard moms who leave their prim babies at home while they go ho-ing in Second Life sex clubs. The Herald applauds Mrs. President in this endeavor, and we must also [...]

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QQ – The Skyrocketing Virtual Currency

by Onder Skall QQ finally made headlines in the Wall Street Journal. Largely ignored here in the west, the hottest virtual currency in China is the QQ. Created by Tencent Holdings Ltd, “QQ Coins” were originally invented as a means for trading virtual items in online worlds and through their popular instant messaging program. For [...]

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Second Life Perfect, No Help Needed

By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist Linden Lab, makers of the 3-d streaming virtual world Second Life, announced that it was finished — and perfect–today, during office hours. Robin Linden, VP of Community and Support, confirmed at her office hours Tuesday that “Live Help” will be shut down. The 24/7 service will no longer be needed because [...]

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Copybot Infestation in Amella

Lindens suggest filing bot abuse reports one at a time – for hundreds of bots by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk When I swung by the Herald offices this evening, the red “hot tip” light was blinking, and two photographs of what appear to be avatar-copying copybots in action were in the inbox – along [...]

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WAR!

Alliance Navy and Merczateers too busy fighting each other to fight griefers by Curious Rousselot, war correspondent [UPDATE: the lost Alliance Navy pictures have been recovered from the combat-damaged laptop and added to this story. note - underscoring the dangers in covering virtual warfare, Ms. Rousselot's laptop was damaged while covering this story - we [...]

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Sheep Warned After Violation of Dreamland Community Covenant

By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch Anshe Chung, owner of Anshe Chung Studios (ACS), creators of Dreamland, a popular Second Life residential and commercial region with more than 500 islands, has written to the leadership of the Electric Sheep Company regarding violation of her company’s covenant. Anshe Chung announced to the Herald this evening that she [...]

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Talks between Alliance Navy and Merczateers Stall. Will it be War Without End?

Merczateer Proteus Hand I was going about some routine editorial work in the Herald bunker in Jessie when an urgent communiqué from a Herald informant splashed onto my screen. According to the informant, the two great armies of Second Life – the Aliance Navy and the Merczateers were engaged in skirmishes again. It had been [...]

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The Greed Shepherd

By Prokofy Neva, Corporate Watch The Electric Sheep Company released for public beta testing a few hours ago a new search engine. The engine doesn’t contain things you’ve tagged, so it’s not like SLOOG or SL 411 or Babbage Linden’s engine or any one of a score of search engines depending on the community to [...]

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LL Mysteries Revealed By Accidental God Mode

Lab can’t afford a legitimate site certificate for internal web server? by Inigo Chamerberlin [As reported earlier, Herald correspondent Inigo Chamerberlin was mysteriously granted game god-mode powers temporarily this Easter. Before his powers evaporated, he was able to file this report from the heavens - and take a number of screen shots - included here [...]

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