Archive for November, 2006

Clone Drones

By Prokofy Neva, Stepford Wives and Trumansville Desk So I was flying around the Scion City sim last night, having missed the big party to launch the new car. I was convinced I’d find 717 traffic and 2 green dots — which I did. I startled a coupla kids at a drive-in movie in their [...]

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Get a Life – Girl Gets Grossed Out By Boy

by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. Heartun Breaker can help you! HEY HEARTUN: I met a nice boy that spends time with me and talks with me a lot but every once in a while his typing goes all crazy and he only uses short words, and not many of them. I asked him about [...]

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Internal Contradictions

Zee Linden, Newbie LL CFO, at Concierge Town Hall Tonight. By Prokofy Neva, Virtual Estate Desk As every good Marxist knows, the dialectic contains internal contradictions. We serfs tilling the soil in the land business in SL know this phenomenon in Second Life as, “How come the Lindens said one thing today, but said something [...]

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The Euro Update Experience

A nuisance for everyone Eloise Pasteur, European Affairs desk On those occasions where it actually improves our experience it’s one we may look back on gratefully. On those occasions where it makes things worse, we swear about it for some time. But, have you ever stopped to consider what it’s like for those of us [...]

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You Thought it Wasn’t Possible: New Levels of Arrogance Achieved by PR Firm in Second Life

Well, we’ve done out best to call out the PR firms for the false claims of firsts, so you would think some of them might be getting the message. But what message are they getting exactly? In the following message leaked to the Herald, Jane McDaid of Thinkhouse PR in Ireland says exactly what she [...]

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Yet Another Fake First! Fucktards at UK’s Guardian Working Overtime Reprinting False PR

Wow, the Guardian must be churning out false PR releases just as fast as they can receive them from the PR Flacks. Check the facts asserted in corporate PR releases? The Guardian says: “Why the fuck bother. This is just a fucking video game.” Just yesterday the Guardian reprinted the false boast that Axel Springer [...]

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Downed Sim Floodwaters Threaten Church – LL Clueless

An hour of prayer to Live Help is finally answered by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk residents protest shoddy sim monitoring by LL I was out dancing with a friend at a blues club about 30 minutes ago when the mojo wire sputtered to life, and one of the interns paged me. There was an [...]

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Another Fake First

Your faithful correspondent outside the SLH Vendor in Grace, ready with a rolled-up copy of the famous real actual first virtual tabloid, ready to bop fake firsts. IM Prokofy to get yours today! By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching and Hypervent Harangues Oh, dear. Paging Uri, get on line, quick! You have to see this [...]

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LL Releases Phishing Cheat Codes

Lindens ruin phishing game – several staffers unhappy by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Brent Linden today released cheat codes that might ruin the fun for an IQ test/phishing game in a blog entry here. The LindenHack.citymax.com site claims to give anyone 1 month or older in SL the princely sum of L$10,000 for every [...]

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Decapitated Fembot Flirts With Nearly Anyone!

Interview with talking head Hallie By Fiend LudwigHallie chats up Fiend on Info Island Hallie: Hello there. Glad to see you, Fiend Ludwig.You: Thanks.Hallie: Don’t mention it.You: What do you do?Hallie: Fiend Ludwig, I talk to people on the web. What do you do?You: I write.Hallie: Do you write fiction or non-fiction?You: Both.Hallie: What are [...]

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