Archive for January, 2007
Op/Ed: Sky Isn’t Falling – Ground Is Rising — Fast
Watermelon and gaffer-tape bodge by Inigo ChamerberlinWell, here I am, Wednesday 10th January 5 pm PST, stuck on my private estate, like I have been for the last 3 days. Objects are going off-world and NOT being returned like there’s no tomorrow, the packet loss (which according to Neotrace is all in the Linden Lab [...]
Full StoryYouTube Bans Another Second Life Safari Vid. Sort of.
An anonymous source forwarded us the following communications with YouTube, in reference to a request that a Second Life Safari (by our sometimes misguided friend Petey) be taken down because it (i) violated copyright (Harry Potter and Ron Weasely being trademarked characters) and (ii) depicted sex with between minors (Harry Potter and Ron Weasely being [...]
Full StoryFear and Loathing in Second Life Part 4: Happiness is a Warm Gun
by Gideon Television On Saturday, I finished my last piece, just before deadline. “The Best Little Whorehouses in Second Life“. Catchy. With a title like that, no-one would miss the irony. At least, not unless they were OUT OF THEIR FUCKING MINDS. By Sunday, the feces, as they say, had not so much hit the [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Thirde
by Tiny Newt [Editor's Note: When last we heard from him, sea captain Tiny Newt had lost one pirate ship and then recruited the presumably fetching Robin Sprocket to crew his next foray into the dangerous waters of Sanchon. . . .--Walker Spaight] Parte the Thirde: In Which We Are Totally Immersed An expert in [...]
Full StorySausalito Smackdown: Millions of Sheep?
by Pat the Rat While Reuben Steiger, who runs Millions of Us, one of the Big Three players in the metaverse-industrial complex, tried to make light of it in a recent blog post, Pat the Rat hears that the recent meeting of the minds between Reuben and Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck was hardly [...]
Full StorySecond Life Client Goes Open Source
Link for new revolutionary development still not now working (UPDATE 10:00 am EST). I’m sure many more tekkie heads will be around to parse the significance of this cyberspace-shattering development, but Phoenix Linden just announced that Linden Lab is open-sourcing the Second Life Client. First question: what will this do to land values? Seriously, this [...]
Full StoryEstate Ban’s Borked – Residents Asked to Cooperate
Do not access certain regions – especially when you can teleport to them by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk For land owners, the ability to ban others from their virtual real estate can be a powerful weapon in the sad, petty wars between rival factions in the metaverse. Earlier today, I was under the mistaken [...]
Full StoryInterview with Ogoglio’s Trevor Smith
A mid-November look at some Ogoglio features. Through the years, the Herald has discussed various open source alternatives to Second Life, including Open Croquet and MUPPETS, but we haven’t yet looked at Ogoglio. In this interview, we talk to Ogoglio creator Trevor Smith, who explains how Ogoglio is a fundamentally different project from those that [...]
Full StoryOp Ed: YouTube, News Sites Wimp Out Over Winged Wangs
By Prokofy Neva YouTube and other news and commentary web sites have caved to the pressure of the powerful Anshe Chung Studios and taken down photos and machinima videos of the infamous penising of his interview of the virtual millionairess in Second Life. The news sites, of course, should not have published these materials in [...]
Full StoryReality is Such a Buzz Kill
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. HEY HEARTUN~ I guess you could say my online fantasy relationship ‘worked’. At first we sent each other fake pictures and revealed fake ages, but as the months went by the confessions came out. I am a 19 year old girl and my online boyfriend (now my ‘RL’ boyfriend) [...]
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