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Kremlindens Plan Mass Weddings for St. Valentine’s Day
by Pat the Rat Following in the footsteps of many totalitarians and cult leaders throughout the ages like the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Kremlindenlab has announced that on Valentine’s Day, it will hold a mass wedding. The bubbling, irrepressible Bub Linden will be on hand to perform the staggering, sim-lagging event. In a Linden forums [...]
Full StorySexy Spright? Fugly Fright? Get a life?
Current #1 is Guild Wars vixen Queen Christie. An Elementalist, of course. We are all familiar with the Hot or Not site, in which users with too much time on their hands rate the pictures of meat-space hotties and or notties. I believe there is also a “rate my avatar” site in which Prokofy Neva [...]
Full Story…Let No Man Put Asunder…
by Pat the Rat Linden watchers inform Pat the Rat that naughty Kremlinden Lab has intervened to dissolve the partnership of Torley nee Torgeson Linden and Jady Lily. As of last report, they are no longer listed as partners, victims of what has become known as “reverse minister’s action” on the part of the Kremlindens. [...]
Full StoryA Putsch in Neualtenburg?
Ulrika’s Office, as she left it. This news is a bit old, but well worth pondering. Ulrika Zugzwang, the driving force behind Second Life’s virtual socialist micro-state, Neualtenburg, has left the project and Second Life. Ulrika claims personal reaons, but coming on the heels of a revolt in the Party that spilled into the forums, [...]
Full StoryEA Cuts 5% of Workforce
Or so says this article on Forbes.com. I was unclear on whether this move is driven by the weak games sales in the current shift to new consoles, or, as the EA Spokesperson *seems* to be suggesting — outsourcing that would have happened anyway. Oddly, the EA position seems to be this: we aren’t firing [...]
Full StoryCybering on the Teen Grid? Lindens Adopt Don’t Ask Don’t Tell Policy.
By Mercury Metropolitan News has been spreading quickly around the Teen Grid that "smutty" IMs are acceptable if both parties are in consent. Apparently, a Linden has been informing players that these "smutty" conversations are hard to police, and are only moderated accordingly if one of the parties reports the other. This also brings up [...]
Full Storytest post for Herald TV
This is a test post for what in the fullness of time will evolve into the Herald TV branch of the Herald media empire. Posted here is actually a story from TechTV on the ESRB ratings of online games, featuring former Herald staffer Jessica and cranky professor L. VE_EmbedPlayer(“gid325/cid1093″, “TypePad/274032_1138387069″);
Full StoryOh Joy, SL Taps Users to be Forum Mods — and we know how well THAT works.
The last time we saw users as forum mods. (Just a stroll down memory lane…). Yes, it’s true folks, dipping again into that inexhaustable well of users that will fluff for peanuts, the Lindens have enlisted a group of SL residents to moderate the SL Forums — or so reports Jeska Linen. Actually we like [...]
Full StoryC|Net Covers Lessig Visit
Daniel Terdiman has a story on C|Net covering the visit to Second Life of Stanford Law Professor and author of Free Culture, Lawrence Lessig. Its a great story except for the end when he sites that cranky old professor Ludlow, who has nothing good to say about anything it seems. Hamlet Linden also has been [...]
Full StoryNo Pain no Fun?
In an interesting recent post on Terra Nova, Bonnie Ruberg raises the question of the value and authenticity of BDSM scenes in a virtual space where, strictly speaking, no pain or blood or even serious power exchange are possible. Along the way she sites that classic Alphaville Herald interview with Anonymous on the BDSM scene [...]
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