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POP!!!
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate The real virtual estate bubble which has prevailed in Second Life since island price hikes in November 2006 started to pop today as Linden Land whacked out some 40 new sims opening at $1000 bids, starting the list with one named “Badly Moor,” which seemed to set the [...]
Full StoryLandBots Bought First Linden Land; Line Pockets
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Try saying that headline really fast! But no matter how fast you move, you’ll never be able to control your reflexes as quickly as LandBot, who can purchase a parcel released to first land while your human eye is still slowly blinking. Yes, you’re heard of CopyBot, CampBot, [...]
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 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 StoryMr. Linden’s Hong Kong Or Level 75
Mr. Ben Linden rides off into a YouTube sunset to his new franchulate. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology In keeping with its plan to open source and franchulate the popular online 3-D streaming video gangland game vicinity, whose tangled code had become “nearly organic,” Linden Lab has allowed a resident-turned-Linden and long-time loyal servant [...]
Full StoryMeez Too
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Spaces, Worlds, Planets, Universes, Metaverses, and Wannabee Virtualities.I noticed the kids are using Meez more because they’re bored with MySpace, which they’ve pronounced contemptuously as “gay” or “retarded,” while still declaring TSL as “fun” but “hippy”. They claim they don’t care about Meez very much (not having just scored a [...]
Full StoryCambot Races, Doo-Da, Doo-Da
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Bot-Watchers and Alien Look-outs Bots treading Linden water outside of Emerald Falls Casino, which has been forced to ban unverifieds. With apologies to Stephen Foster. Campbot zombies sing this songDoo-da, doo-daLibsl can do no wrongOh, de doo-da day Gwine to run all nightGwine to run all dayBet my money on [...]
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 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 StoryAgeplay or Pageplay? War Vet Camps New Virtual Capitol Hill
“We demand the People’s right to rez!” says demonstrator Rosenthal, complaining about all scripts turned off on the new Capitol Hill sim, preventing creation or operation of objects by non-group members. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Governments Sunmicrosystems and their chosen metaversal sherpa Clear Ink opened up an instance of the U.S. House of [...]
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