Op/Ed: The Linden Lab Mafia

by Intlibber Brautigan In his cyberpunk novel "Snow Crash", which Phillip Rosedale has said a number of times that Second Life is based on, the federal and state governments have imploded from fiscal irresponsibility and a refusal to face reality. In his prequel works, Stephenson’s heroes of the novel "Cryptonomicon" recover a massive cache of [...]

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Squattin’ Life Part 4: Home Decor

by Pappy Enoch, Shiftless Bum With Good Taste Well, I done escaped the horrible fate my rotten sister Jezzybell done prepared for me. Now that she am out o’ the way for a few days, I can return to cornsiderin’ the finer points of prettying up your squat. Ol’ Squat 2.0 done hung in for [...]

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Kellie Ryba — Post 6 Grrrrl

[It’s an interesting thing that sometimes I hear from a prospective model, have a couple of initial conversations and then don’t hear from them again for weeks. Such was the case with Kellie Ryba. Finally, our schedules meshed enough that we got the following pictures, which I really hope do her justice. It is my [...]

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Emerald Site Security Broken! Data Mining Shocks Linden Lab!!!

According to documents that appear to have been leaked from ModularSystems, the developers of the “Emerald” Second Life viewer have compiled a database of avatar names, IP addresses, and geo-location information for players who created Second Life accounts at the ModularSystems.com site. In addition, visitors to the developers’ land in the virtual world have been [...]

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Sephora Mafia Means Business – Challenges Nicholas Family

The Nicholas and Sephora mafia war continued over the weekend – a conflict fought with YouTube videos, Second Life client hacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS) attacks, SQL injection exploits and web site security vulnerabilities — a sort of Internet-enabled alternate reality game for hackers with bragging rights among the families of Second Life at [...]

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Islamist Gangs Terrorize Facebook!

The biggest MMO of them all – Facebook – is being terrorized by gangs of Islamists, filing mass abuse reports against those they target for removal according to ReadWriteWeb. Using tactics similar to those of the Justice League Unlimited, a notorious Second Life vigilante group, the Islamists "single out users they consider ideologically unorthodox (a [...]

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Nicholas Mafia Patch Illicit Viewers — Trash Sephora Gang Site

The Linden Lab crackdown on  third party viewers may be having unintended consequences — at least one in-world mafia has released a collection of what are claimed to be patched illicit viewers that can circumvent the Linden blocks on banned Second Life client software. Apparently, to be a gangsta means running a viewer with extra [...]

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Brandie Glas – Post 6 Grrrrl

[One of the things I like about Post 6 is that often times the models have a good enough experience that they refer their friends to me. This is the case with this week's model, Brandie Glas, who is, I think you'll agree, as beautiful as she is a great person. It is an honor [...]

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Phoenix Power Outage Cripples Second Life – Blended Frappuccino Blamed

Geeks with a taste for blended frappuccinos may have been to blame for the Second Life crash that crippled the virtual world over the last 24 hours, according to Oskar Linden’s comments in the AWGroupies chat tonight. Oskar told the Herald that trouble started when the "phoenix datacenter had a complete power outage" and the [...]

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Virtual Worldwide Crash Takes Down Second Life

Serious problems apparently started in the Second Life virtual world at about 9 pm PDT Wednesday, and have continued over the last 6 hours, in what appears to have been a grid-wide crash of the world and associated services. As of this writing, Herald staff are unable to login to the world, and the Second [...]

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