The Alphaville Herald

Gossip, Rumors, and Cooking School

by Alphaville Herald on 09/10/08 at 12:32 am

by Idoru Wellman, staff writer and professional cooking student

rumors and gossip gathered from generally reliable alt accounts

Pixeleen dashed out of the Herald offices saying something about secret preparations for the SL Herald 5th year anniversary party later this month — and could I deal with the tips and gossip column? I didn’t mind that much – my wild mushroom risotto was not working out, and I’m used to dealing with the Herald scut work like cleaning out the nest Jimbo Quality used to sleep in back when we let him in the Herald offices.

Beside the party preparations, Pixeleen said she was busy facilitating the liquidation of some collateralized debt obligations offered by several Fur and Gorean Investment banks specializing in Second Life rental properties in Ravensglass, FurNation Hell, and Fort Longcat sims – apparently each investment was supposed to hedge the risk of default in the others, but then Hamet Au published one too many Linden Lab puff pieces which strained investor credibility to the breaking point further destabilized the futures market leading to a stampede of european Tinies shorting Stroker Serpentine’s SexGen stock in the Wapanese overseas markets, which caused the L$ spacebux denominated secondary hedge fund market to go into a powerdive — or something to that effect.

So I’m taking a break from working on the wild mushroom risotto they taught us in class today to type up the gossip column. If this doesn’t work out I’m going to try making a local specialty: grits and arugula.

Did the Electric Sheep Company and Cory Edo part company? Why don’t the sheep have a link to Cory’s blog anymore? Or is our source confused about Cory being listed on ESC blogroll back in the day? Maybe it is time for Cory update some of the web pages on her site – like this one.

By the way – did anyone else notice that the Electric Sheep no longer mention Second Life on their web site? If you did, don’t tell anyone — M Linden is trying really hard to turn things around, and Hamlet Au is with him every step of the way. Kool-Aid tastes great!

A very special wedding for two W-Hat goons – and most of the account suspensions from the wedding ceremony should be over by now

Despite the crusade of Mr. Prokofy Neva – the all-knowing, all-seeing, infallible virtual gadfly, it appears that Woodbury University is real, and is an expanding presence in SL. Woodbury now has three sims – and Intlibber Brautigan is large and in charge. Look what we found on the grounds of the Metaversity sim:

Could this mean that Mr. Neva was wrong about Woodbury University? They do seem to have an educational mission. Would anyone like to take out a loan to buy some virtual world CDOs at a special low price?