Emerald Gang Implodes – Viewer Ban Hammer Next?

Jessica Lyon has resigned from the Emerald viewer team and published the formerly secret requirements Linden Lab made of the group – which include the expulsion of Skills Hak, Discrete Dreamscape, and Lonely Bluebird (a.k.a. Phox) from the development team – previously Fractured Crystal resigned from the group. Emerald meeting M Linden, Marty Linden, Joe [...]

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Juliana and Ariella Moonstone – Post 6 Grrrrls

[Juliana and Ariella Moonstone contacted me when I was on vacation and wanted to pose. As you will soon see, it was an easy sell because they are two wonderfully creative people. It is an honor and pleasure to introduce the beautiful and talented sisters as this weeks Post 6 Grrrls ~Timothy Morpork] What seems [...]

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Pony Linden Fed to Zombies

Last “Whinny” For Beloved Fake Animal by Journey Yellowlist, Herald PETA Desk My earlier speculations were not mere hyperbole. Pony Linden, the fun-time animal from simpler times in Second Life’s fake world, has been killed off in the back-to-basics campaign Philip Linden launched when Mitch Kapor gave the boot to M. Linden stepped down as [...]

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Was Vivox Chat p0wned by Emerald Developers?

LindenWorld staff meetings an open book to ban-proof Fractured Crystal, Lonely Bluebird? Did two Emerald developers – Fractured Crystal and Lonely Bluebird – taunt Emerald critic Hazim Gazov after using the Vivox voice chat admin portal disable Gazov’s Second Life voice? Were the rogue developers able to track Lab staff on private Linden-only islands? It [...]

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Fannie Carter — Post 6 Grrrrrl

[Fannie Carter originally posed for Post 6 in September of 2007, and I leapt at the chance to feature her again when she introduced herself the other day. Based on a very limited sample, I have to agree with original photographer Justine Babii’s assessment that Fannie is “scary smart” as she kept me on my [...]

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Emerald In Disgrace!!! Philip Linden Warns Against Malicious Viewer!!!

Philip Linden took pen in hand today to warn Second Life players the controversial Emerald Viewer has been removed from the official list of third party viewers stating "We will not tolerate a viewer that includes malicious code, nor will we tolerate development teams with a history of violating users’ trust or disrupting their lives" [...]

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Nelson Jenkins: Why Would Anyone Trust These Emerald Guys?

[Nelson Jenkins has been awarded the “commie” or comment-of-the-week award for this detailed breakdown of the Modular Systems abuses. The award winning comment is reproduced below.] @ Jocelyn Pawpad I’m going to go ahead and cross-post this, just in case you didn’t get the memo. Why anyone would continue to trust these folks will remain [...]

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Emerald Viewer Mutiny – Fractured Crystal Thrown To Sharks

Second Life Emerald Viewer + DDOS Platform Ownership Changes Hands The scandal-plagued Emerald viewer development team has undergone radical change with the resignation of Fractured Crystal Sunday morning. Although Mr. Crystal had previously controlled the web site distributing the Emerald viewer, he was forced out in what appears to have been a mutiny by other [...]

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Emerald Flack Arabella Steadham: “I Don’t Lie”

Protip: killing reporters makes you look bad On my first visit to Emerald Point Friday night, I was killed by an unknown assailant within a minute of sitting down with the Emerald developers. I had dropped by hoping for comments from Emerald gang spokeswoman Arabella Steadham, and was pleased to see also in attendance several [...]

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Emerald Viewer Login Screen Sneak DDOS Attack?

Developers of the Emerald Second Life client appear to have used their viewer to launch a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the website of Hazim Gazov – a prominent critic of Emerald – after Gazov claimed the Emerald client was leaking potentially user-identifying information when rendering Second Life avatars. The DDOS attack took [...]

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