Archive for the year 2007
Dodge This, Tringo: Combat Cards Deals Itself Into SL Gaming Scene
Special to the Herald, by Onder Skall of Second Life Games It started with a couple of friends sitting at the kitchen table. Doc Boffin and Jaladan Codesmith wondered what it would take to create a kick-butt card combat game for an MMO. A deck of playing cards, some masking tape, a magic marker and [...]
Full StoryHaifeng Chu – Post 6 Grrrl
[Editor’s note: Haifeng Chu - our latest Post 6 Grrrl - shows off some of the most amazing one-of-a-kind tattoos I have seen in SL. I’m sure our readers will want to examine this work of art very carefully. Haifeng was photographed by another one-of-a-kind SL national treasure - Marilyn Murphy, the photographer/visionary behind Players, [...]
Full StoryTV: The Cappuccinos
Zee delivers crowbar-enhanced newspaper by Inigo Chamerberlin [On the previous episode of The Cappuccinos: Street-smart Zee, having just joined "The Family" is eager to prove himself one of the goodfellas, and starts looking for an informant to whack while working the family numbers game. Philip visits the consigliere and returns quiet and subdued - but [...]
Full StoryGangsta asks “She Lyin. What Ima Do? I Hella Mad!”
by Heartun Breaker, syndicated advice columnist. HEY HEARTUN ~ My wife, girlfriend, ‘partner’ whatever — I think she cheating on me. We ben talking about her livin Textas (sic) and moving up to me in Detroit and what not. We good together. We play alla time. But month ago she play that Wow (World of [...]
Full StoryA Day at the Virtual Races
by Jimbo Quality [Editor's Note: We sent Herald reporter Jimbo Quality out to cover the Second Life racing scene. His report below is presented as the first installment of his Traveling With the Idiot series. You'll soon see why.--Walker Spaight] The author wonders whether he’s made a wrong left turn To avoid looking like a [...]
Full StoryValley-Meme and the Crashed Drawing-Room
A pointy-eared polemic by Prokofy Neva Robbie Dingo’s Whisper Box Near Magellan’s Crash While it seems like a credible concept, the good professor’s “new media” concept reveals too much Chomsky-reading, and not enough McLuhan. Far from having a new streaming interactive pushme/pullyou immersivia to replace the old one-way pulp-and-electron media, we have something far more [...]
Full StoryThe Return of the Salon and the End of Mass Media
Pointyheaditorial by Urizenus Sklar Denizens of the internet have long noted that many online meeting places have served roles like those of the literary salons and coffee houses of the 18th century. Online conferencing systems like The WELL and Mindvox, MUDS and MOOs like Xerox PARC’s LamdaMOO and MediaMOO, and graphical social spaces like The [...]
Full StoryL-Word Beats the P-Word
By Annyushka Apparatchik, Dept. of Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, Spaces, and Lovely Tea-Party Places Tired of having friends you’ve send to join SL tell you later they turned around and left, after be bopped over the head by a giant phallus? Or caged on a laggy welcome area knee-deep in naked gun-totating newbs, unable to [...]
Full StoryPixel Sumo: The Fattest SL Game You’ve Never Played
by Davgor Edgeworth [Editor's Note: We first noticed Pixel Sumo back in November, courtesy of its creator, Ebenezer Pixel. For a more in-depth look at the experience of becoming a fat, diapered virtual wrestler, though, we turn you over now to the ministrations of Davgor Edgeworth, who has gone the extra mile to bounce the [...]
Full StoryADVERTISEMENT: More Second Life Millionaires?
So I happened by a forum the other day which struck me as being really unique. TalkSecondLife.com is perhaps the only forum where networking and knowledge is shared about making money in-world. From reading the posts, it appears that a few businesses have been started by their members. There’s some really good information for members [...]
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