China Zaps Internet Addiction

Low-voltage shocks help internet addicts sleep better – Lindens prefer herbal tea by Onder Skall Kids: when your parents tell you to get off the damned computer and get some fresh air, you’d better. If not, they might send you to China for treatment. When you arrive at the ‘treatment clinic’ you’ll be locked in [...]

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Usefulness Is Dangerous

Blingsider, Tard*Star, New World Goats Notes are completely safe by Bayesian TextBot be very very afraid of games – and the Second Life Herald Roderick Jones recently posted an article to Counterterrorism Blog entitled “MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists“. The article is primarily about Second Life, and on the whole compliments Linden [...]

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The Light at the End of the Tunnel

by hotlips Tornado My heart really was pounding and my hands were shaking. At last, there was a light at the end of the tunnel and I knew what I had to do. Nervous, but excited, I walked up to the server and touched it. Up popped the familiar blue menu that I’d seen a [...]

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Ninja Looters of Infamy: Are The Patriotic Nigras Really Pathetic Posers?

In a shocking new twist to a story that already has more kinks than a pubic hair, reliable Herald sources inform us that despite their bragging on sites like 10 Zen Monkeys, the Patriotic Nigras did not initiate the attack on the John Edwards Headquarters in Second Life. According to our sources, the attack was [...]

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Astrin Few’s Open Letter: Fix SL or I’m Out

An Open Letter to Second Life ResidentsAstrin Few, SL MusicianPosted on blog.slmusic.org , March 8, 2007(reprinteded here at the request of Astrin Few) As I approach my fourth year in Second Life, I’ve reached a decision point regarding my future participation in SL. After spending countless hours performing, helping organize RL events, helping new musicians [...]

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LL Ageplay Shocker: The Company Rules

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Afffairs In a reversal of their usual hands-off policy toward inworld lifestyles of even the most extreme type, Linden Lab has unexpectedly come up with an ageplay policy today, which it has chosen to articulate not on the official Blob, but in notecards delivered to some inworld businesses. A notecard [...]

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Sony Clone: A Better Second Life?

Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Now Those Record People Have Copied Our Game, Geez Sony has just gone and cloned Second Life! OMGODZORZ even the welcome areas look like they were *lifted straight out of Ahern”. I kid you not, kids. Go check it out. I’m still absorbing the shock of [...]

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Project: Buzz Kill

by Onder Skall The BBC covered yesterday what the Herald covered last week- “Project: Top Secret” has launched in an effort to build a user-created MMO. As a trade-off for being a bit late to the party they were able to provide us with an overview of how many signups they’ve received. At this point [...]

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Con Artist Capitalizes on LL’s Slow Rez Bug

by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Monday Beam, ESQ. alerted the Herald that a grifter has been making the rounds among the horsey set. Apparently, a glitch in Second Life causes horses bought from some vendors to fail to appear in the buyer’s inventory until after they log out and then relog into the metaverse. [...]

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Almost Linden-less to Completely Freebie Fabulous!

by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista Okay, I’d hate to beat a dead horse – I’ve heard they have a faint smell – but there’s always a need for the current best freebies for all the unverifieds and newbies out there – plus Jeska and Robin Linden might even want to update their look – so [...]

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