The Alphaville Herald

Shock! Philip Linden Invites Plastic Duck to Apply for Job at Linden Lab

What happens when notorious griefer Plastic Duck (aka Patrick Sapinski) inquires about the job of CTO Jedi at Linden Lab? Behold: Hi Patrick, thanks for the contact! I don’t think you are a fit for the operations role, but you might want to apply for one of the engineering positions, from the description of your [...]

Giuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)

[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring [...]

On Board the Endeavour

[Editor's Note: The Herald HQ occupies a landlocked plot in Second Life's Hyperborea sim, so it was with great surprise that we found washed up on our non-existent shoreline a waterlogged book, in the pages of which we found a sketch of Tiny Newt's barque, the Endeavour, as well as the scrap of a diagram [...]

Plywood #72: Return of the Living Dead

Searching for Nirvana

God and the weather (channel) in Second Life by Jimbo Quality, on temporary assignment to the Herald spirituality extreme sports desk Jimbo Quality and friend [Editor’s Note: We had hoped feared that correspondent Jimbo Quality had been lost forever in his ramblings around the grid, until we received the following dispatch, scribbled on cocktail napkins [...]

Plywood #71: Secret Lives of Avatars

Samwer Brothers of Germany take 10% Stake in Anshe Chung Studios

The Samwer hotties brothers The German newspaper Frankfurther Allgemeine is reporting that the Samwer brothers of Germany have acquired a 10% stake in the virtual real estate and metaverse development company Anshe Chung Studios. The Samwer brothers — Oliver, Alexander and Marc — gained their claim to fame when they started an online auction site [...]

Plyqood #70: Prim’s Lament

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Is Ginko’s Alleged Ponzi Game About to Implode? Will Linden Lab be Held Liable?

The Journal of the Business Law Society at the University of Illinois College of Law is running a well documented article on Second Life’s Ginko corporation, which claims to have the equivalent of $475,000 US invested in it but which some have called a ponzi scheme, Meanwhile, Philip Linden has comparedGinko to the Grameen Bank [...]