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I entered a little Cracked.com photoshop comedy contest, with the above name. Results here.

Linden Lab Reviewing Security

Procedures getting extra review due to PSN breach, says CEO.

Headline news around the matrix is the massive data heist that has laid Sony’s PlayStation Network low; after six days of near silence, the company finally admitted it was hacked. Here’s a brief summary from ThreatPost:

"Sony admitted that hackers broke into its PlayStation Network online gaming network made off with the personal information of more than 77 million members in what would be one of the largest reported data breaches in history."

SLings and Arrows

Hamlet talks New World Notes, negativity, and his next book.

I own a lot of books, but only two of them are about Second Life. One is about scripting, which was an incredibly poor purchase on my part, because even if I ever did get around to learning SL scripting, I would then have to tediously retype those obsolete scripts into my objects. The other book turned out to be far more noteworthy and entertaining: Wagner James Au’s The Making of Second Life, covering the early years of Linden Lab and the creation of SL.

Under his avatar name ‘Hamlet’, Au is also the blogger behind New World Notes, which has been a mainstay on the Second Life scene for an impressive eight years now, an impressive achievement in any online realm.