Archive for May, 2005

Interview with the Anthropologist

Tom Bukowski (no relation to Charles) We know they are here. Philosophers, journalists, sociologists, anthropologists, proctologists… And worse! But what are they up to as they skulk around the grid? In this interview our intrepid reporter Montserrat Snakeankle talks to Tom Bukowski, who by day is an anthropologist at UC Irvine and an avid shopper [...]

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Who is that guy?

This guy Mark Wallace is all over the NY Times, these days, most recently giving a story about big time earners and real estate moguls in Second Life. The article is The Game Is Virtual. The Profit Is Real, and our friend Anshe and other big earners in SL figure in a major way. Again, [...]

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Post Six Grrrl – Cheryl Mysterio

The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – Cheryl Mysterio. Cheryl is an officer in security groups for Club Pharoah and Club Fusion. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who is responsible for these pictures and all of [...]

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Another Meeting. Another Post-Literate Future.

Yesterday I attended a meeting of the SL Future Salon, organized by Jeffrey Paffendorf (SNOOPYbrown Zamboni ) of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. The idea of the SL Future Salon is to bring clever futurists (and presentists?) together in SL to discuss the shape of things to come. This round the speakers were Betsy Book (Skyllar [...]

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Collared! A Newbie goes to Port Kar and gets a taste of Gorean Iron

By Anonymous No0b “Next, the master told me to strip. I didn’t respond immediately, I think mostly because the idea that I was supposed to do something just because he said so didn’t compute in my brain. He repeated the request again, this time explaining that he needed to see me, because I belonged to [...]

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Heard on the Hardware

Heard at a Slingo game, May 16:Resident #1: Now you HAVE to tell us how old you are!Resident #2: No! You’ll crash the sim! Heard at the same game, same day: Resident #3: I swear, I can give up Slingo anytime!Resident #4: Yeah yeah, we all can LMAO!

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Post Six Grrrl – Angelica Ludovico

The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – Angelica Ludovico. Angelica is the chief officer of the groups Decrepid Darkness and Dark Depressions. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who is responsible for these pictures and all of [...]

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Unconscionable!

CmdrSlack has a post on Grimwell Online, entitled “There’s Gold in Them Thar Pixels!: an examination of virtual chattels and property rights.” Of particular interest to denizens of SL, is the discussion of Linden Lab’s schizophrenic policy of simultaneously (i) saying they are not responsible for loss of property and (ii) advertising on their web [...]

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Trailer Park Trash!

The following is a public service announcement by Mrs. President Chomsky After my campaign against the culling and extermination of virtual pets on TSO (with my good friend St. Frank), I was so exhausted I was going to give up activism for a while, but this is Just. Too. Much. On a recent stroll I [...]

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IGE in licensing agreements with MMOs?

It is being reported on UO Powergamers.com (and of course discussed on Terra Nova) that uber-virtual-currency-trader IGE has negotiated licensing agreements with at least five different MMOs. These agreements would presumably allow them to conduct their currency trading etc for a payment to the game companies. Which shows you that for once history is on [...]

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