Archive for May, 2007

The Crusade Against Online Gambling

The Crusade Against Online Gambling by Jim Pretin
Internet casinos and sportsbooks have grown immensely in popularity over the past several years. From playing cards to betting on the Super Bowl to playing roulette, you can literally have Las Vegas in the comfort of your own home. However, is it legal to gamble online? [...]

The Crusade Against Online Gambling

The Crusade Against Online Gambling by Jim Pretin
Internet casinos and sportsbooks have grown immensely in popularity over the past several years. From playing cards to betting on the Super Bowl to playing roulette, you can literally have Las Vegas in the comfort of your own home. However, is it legal to gamble online? [...]

Making money in Virtual Economies

Making money in Virtual Economies by Steve Parma
In case you haven’t noticed, there has been an explosion of MMORPG games that have entered the video game world. MMORPG stands for Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games, which means a game that is played by thousands to millions of people at one time in [...]

Spain conquers Second Life…only to be ripped apart

In a terrible foreshadowing of the real world, the conservative and socialist parties of Spain are acting out infuriated and violent raids and rioting.
Related PostsWhere are the Second Life developers?A Second Life June 2007 survey found that Second Life developers were well distr…I love reading the Linden Labs Blog CommentsI love reading the [...]

According to an old study…

Why is it that every news story validates its headline with the phrase: “according to a new study”? New studies come out constantly and continually contradict each other but in each news story it is cited as if it were an irrefutable breakthrough.
According to an old study, 95% of all newspaper journalists are complete [...]

Open Letter to NBA Commissioner David Stern.

NBA Commissioner David Stern:
Please immediately provide me with the public statistic of the number of referee whistles in the 4 games so far of the Suns/Spurs playoff series and how many of the whistles were in the Spurs favor.
I want to officially complain about the suspension of Amare Stoudemire and Boris Diaw.
Never in my life [...]

The Ten Tips: for successful news writing

These ten tips are a must for successful news writing whether it is traditional news paper stories or blogging on internet news web sites. Following these 10 tips will insure a creative and interesting story.
Related PostsThe 2 Real Reasons Second Life is SuccessfulPeople talk about why Second Life is successful. Sure it was [...]

How to loose L$346,180 in 3 days of Second Life Gambling: Part 1

With a shrug I jumped up from the table, defiantly leaping over the roped off areas, and headed to the Black Jack tables. As I sat down I received an offer to become a Raiden Gold Casino VIP and quickly agreed. There were no benefits that I could see but I did have “V.I.P” displayed [...]