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Bluebird of Unhappiness
Prokofy Neva, Walking 47 Miles of Barbed Wire/Got a Cobra Snake for a Neck-Tie/Got Me a Brand-New House by the Road-Side/Made Out of Rattle-Snake Hide We need a music critic here at the Herald. Ever since Quentinesqe Paine, the college emo dude who used to get an expense account from the paper but never wrote [...]
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By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate If you own land in Second Life, hug it a little closer tonight. Its valuation — its very *reality* as a virtual thingie — is open to question — it may be (or always was) merely a kind of service you rent, server space for your content, from [...]
Full StoryNo Life-Logging Please, We’re Second Lifers
By Prokofy Neva, Harry Bridges Memorial Dept., Smith Act, Inc. You know how when you go to play a game, this TOS drops down in front of you? You know, the screen that says “I agree” or “I disagree” in Second Life — the rules that you must obey or you can’t enter the world. [...]
Full StoryIf You’re Going to San Francisco…
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Hippy Dippy Trippy Tips on Trips You might be stuck on your laggy sim, with thousands of inventory items missing or inaccessible, with group IMs frozen, and your build mysteriously destroyed — or out in negative space or up in the air 2500 m2, something that the new wonky, scratchy [...]
Full StoryLimbering Up for Lawsuit?
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Evil Land Barons, Capitalist Pigs, and Running Dogs Anybody notice the auctions were closed, or were you too busy trying to get on the birthday sims? I wandered over to the auctions to see if anything cheap in Lindens was appearing in the used category and saw that there were absolutely [...]
Full StoryJonathan Fanton Takes Flight
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Dept. In his real life as the President of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Jonathan Fanton probably has to fly thousands of miles to check out his many philanthropic projects and branch offices in other countries like Russia. Today was probably the first time he took flight [...]
Full StoryRumored Bug Puts SL Scripts in Jeopardy — Should Lindens Close Grid?
By Prokofy Neva, Fashionable Tech Dept. for Dummies A scripter by the name of Ethan Schuman claims that the Lindens were squashing a scripting bug today that would have enabled anyone in SL to view — and therefore copy — scripts inside objects in Second Life. Linden Lab has not yet published any announcement about [...]
Full Story“Information Wants to Be Free”
iDubrovnik and ibackofCoryLinden’sneck. By Prokofy Neva, Wender of the Way Through the Tekkie-Wiki Woo So I drop in on the iCommons Dubrovnik summit — virtual version — on the Annenberg Island (still more tomorrow), and Judy Collins is drooning on the sound track. Granola crunches under my feet and what’s that — patchouli scent on [...]
Full StoryLEVELING UP LINDENZ
By Prokofy Neva, Kremlindenologist More missing Lindens : ( Mournfully, I moped around Sutherland, steeling myself for that lonely, chilly vigil out on the Sea of Omidyar once again. Looking to the darkening synthetic skies and the overlarge angry sun, I felt my heart sink. I needed some other strategy. Uri had whispered, “Don’t think [...]
Full StoryThe Broadly Offensive
Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs. Op-Ed. Last night, we met at the Sutherland Dam for the Friday evening salon (will try to post the transcript on my blog soon) to discuss how to respond to the May 31st Daniel Linden Edict which threatens not only to take away cultural and political freedoms in Second [...]
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