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More Lessig Less Linden Please!
Gumby and his 300 pound Samoan Attorney enjoy their virtual autographed copies of Free Culture. by Paul Lineker, Iggy Sleeper, and Dirk Diggler This past Wednesday, Lawrence Lessig’s visited Second Life and was met by enthusiastic fans eager to hear his words regarding the cyberspace-related problems that have surfaced within recent years. By the time [...]
Full StoryFlipper on MTV?
Our friend Stephen Totilo of MTV.com has a story on SL resident FlipperPM Peregrine’s recent attempts to sell real world stuff for Linden dollars at his SLBoutique. It even looks like he will be selling copies of Only a Game for Lindens as well. We can see how the book might sell, but the rest [...]
Full StoryJust in Time for the Superbowl! But is it Legal?
In the past we have reported on attempts to establish sports books (sports gambling operations) in Second Life. SL Sportsbook Inc. is the latest and most ambitious entry in this service industry. Representatives take bets in person on all major sports, including bets on point spreads and over/unders. Of course the question naturally arises as [...]
Full StoryMafia Boss Torches Red Dragon Casino
by Dirk Diggler In a textbook case of how partnerships with the Mafia can go horribly wrong, Drax Lemieux’s Red Dragon Club & Casino was attacked at roughly 9:30pm game time Sunday night. Details of the attack are still sketchy, but it would appear that Sim Mafia Boss Marsellus Wallace was the purported attacker. When [...]
Full StoryCrew 88 Vows to Take Back SL from the Perverts (Whores, Furries, Elves and Emo Goths)
Last night I ran across a crew of 4 skinheads brandishing baseball bats, tire irons, and lag inducing weapons, torching a suburban cul de sac in second life. I invited the group – called Crew 88 for purposes of the interview – back to Herald Media Inc. HQ in Jessie for a chat about their [...]
Full StoryThe Guardian Covers Virtual Journalists Covering Second Life
I meant to blog this much earlier, but..what can I say… I’m irresponsible. Not so the most rightous Aleks Krotoski, who gives her readers in the UK publication The Guardian a peak into the stories that percolate in those august virtual media outlets, The Second Life Herald and Clickable Culture. In her recent piece, Aleks [...]
Full StoryThis is oh so wrong: the sexy machinima of Warcraft!
I thought machinima had probed the limits of my psyche with the Ed Wood film festival in Second Life. But no, now we have *this*… this… well it’s best if you just look.
Full StoryYour Imagination, but now it’s Activeworld’s: Stagecoach Island Failure has Content Contributors Crying Fowl
Tony Walsh (aka Zero Grace) has a superb article on the failure of the Stage Coach Island Project, that a group of Second Life residents undertook for Well’s Fargo Corp. Not only has Wells Fargo moved the project out of Second Life and into Activeworlds, but it has taken a lot of SL resident work [...]
Full StoryMore Lessig!
As Hammie Linden is reporting, Lawrence Lessig, the Official Hero of the Second Life Herald ™ will be visiting Second Life Next Wed. at 5:30 PM Linden time. Author of Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace and Free Culture, he has long stressed the idea that we are in danger of swapping out of a [...]
Full StoryUri’s Predictions for 2006
You’ve been waiting all year for these. Ready? Let’s go! 1) A Linden will be relegated to the cornfield for office hijinks. 2) After several meetings with the FBI, agents will offer Philip a job as an undercover agent in a special task force dedicated to infiltrating metro-sexual crime rings. 3) TrannyPet Barmy will be [...]
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