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WoW guild griefs online memorial service for player that dies in real life
This is interesting. As Shoutwire is reporting, an ingame funeral for a popular player was griefed by a guild in World of Warcraft — griefing event consisting of the attacking guild killing most of the funeral party. Of particular interest to me is the discussion that follows in the wake of this event. A lot [...]
Full StoryHerald Downtime Requirements Exposed!
Not just rock stars and Vice Presidents have special needs when they travel. Perhaps you wondered about the “Downtime Requirements” of the Herald Editorial Board when they stay in their l337 diggs at the Driskill in Austin or the Tribeca Grande in New York. Well, in a spirit of full disclosure, and so that the [...]
Full StorySL Herald Get’s Really Really Wired
It’s been a good week for the the Attention Ho’s at the Second Life Herald. Not only did the soiree in the Herald Suite at SXSW blast into the infosphere when Torrone and Fried hacked up their Roomba to play real frogger, but in the April issue of Wired Magazine (just now on the stands), [...]
Full StoryRoomba Frogger Conquers Memespace
The story about Roomba Frogger broken by Herald Editor Walker Spaight is now officially the talk of the metaverse now that Daniel Terdiman’s story has appeared on News.com. A quick visit to Technorati also shows a rapid diffusion of the story into blogspace, and why shouldn’t there be? But of course along with the oohs [...]
Full StoryConfessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 2
In our last installment, humdog took us from her introduction to Gor to her collaring. In part two, she talks in more detail about her Master, why she was so taken with him, and the psychological devices he uses to control her. –Uri Diary of a Goran Slave, Part 2 by Humdog A kol’lar is [...]
Full StoryConfessions of a Gorean Slave, Part 1
As I said in the comments to my retirement post, I have a few things left in the hopper that I will be posting, so that I might go out with a bang, rather than a wimper. The following is part 1 of a 5 part story by humdog on her life as a Gorean [...]
Full StoryHerald TV: Exclusive Footage of the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction!
Yes, we know that SL is full of 1337 machinima crews making lots of 1337 machinima. But in the Herald we prefer the grainy, gritty reality that we get from the cheap ass video cameras used by our faithful readers and reporters. Do you have a video of a mafia hit? A protest? A socialist/skinhead [...]
Full StoryIt Was Bound to Happen: SL Escort Rating Service Opens
I tried in vain to come up with a picture to illustrate this one, but failed utterly. We all know about the virtual escort services in second life, but perhaps some of you wondered: is this honey’s cyber skills *really* worth 1,000 Lindens? I mean, maybe she is only worth 800! Into this information gap [...]
Full StoryInterview with TrannyPet Barmy
In this interview we speak with TrannyPet Barmy, the gifted scripter and alleged griefer who made the Hand of Satan push gun and the DBomber notecard spamming weapon in addition to an advertising broadcasting system during his first incarnation on Second Life. After being permabanned for questionable reasons, he returned as AsterixLe Gall – better [...]
Full StoryWired News Covers Virtual Lecture Circuit
Joanna Glasner has an interesting article in Wired News on the topic of the recent spate of virtual lectures in Second Life by cyberlebrities such as Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig and others. Doctorow thought the format helped create a bond between author and audience, but the ever cranky professor Ludlow is not so sanquine: “It [...]
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