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Why Does Jeanne Whalen Have a Hardon for Julian Assange?
Little did I realize when I began to investigate this story that I would fall into another interwebs rabbit hole ™. It seems that this was not the first time Whalen has engaged in a disinformtion campaign against Assange and Wikileaks, and thanks to John Young of Cryptome we have an inside look at the desperation of her methods (Young trolls her and the WSJ for good measure). We are left to ask, who is this woman working for?
Full StoryMore Errors Found in WSJ WikiLeaks Article
Wall Street Journal’s Jeanne Whalen busted for more journalistic FAIL by Urizenus Sklar – Contributing Editor and Interwebs Legend The Alphaville Herald Editors have asked that I come out of retirement to investigate this WikiLeaks matter, and I have to say that I am more than a little peeved by the whole thing. Is there [...]
Full StoryPhoto Essay: Homeless /b/tards Construct New Base in Eon
by Urizenus Sklar Never Forget. /b/tards pay respects to the permabanned. Forlorn and despondent and more than a little suicidal after being cast to the street when the Lindens shut down Woodbury University, the never-say-die /b/tards of 4chan’s /b/ board (not to be confused with 7chan’s /b/ board /b/tards) have fashioned a new home in [...]
Full StoryHere’s Pud in Yer Eye! Bukkake Bliss Serves up Buckets of Virtual Facials
by Urizenus Sklar Bukkake is a fetish, originating in Japan, in which dozens of men masturbate and ejaculate into the face of a woman. The fetish has since been popularized in the United States by a series of porn movies entitled American Bukkake, some of which have run into legal trouble according to the Wikipedia. [...]
Full Story“Unconscionable!” Court Blasts Linden Terms of Service, Holds that Philip can be target in Bragg Lawsuit.
Yesterday the US District Court for the District of Pennsylvania ruled on two motions by Linden Lab in the case of Bragg vs. Linden Research. One motion had to do with removing Philip Linden as a target of Bragg’s lawsuit. The second issue had to do with Linden Lab’s terms of service, which says that [...]
Full StoryNissan Retools
The Orignal Nissan Build has Become a Famous SL Marketing Flub. Is the New Project Any Better? Readers may recall our criticism of the Nissan build last October. It was our view that the build failed to take advantage of the social nature of online worlds and also failed to show any sort of imagination [...]
Full StoryUpdated: Is Business Week Stealing Herald Intellectual Property?
Update: April 18, 10:30PM Linden Time As of 10:30 this morning the SL Herald attribution has been added to the BallerMoMo pic. Thanks to author Douglas Macmilllan for getting Business Week to fix this in a timely manner. As Prokofy Neva noted on April 16, Business Week is running an online article in which they [...]
Full StoryFiction or Documentary? Real or Virtual?
Over a year ago I met art/documentary filmmakers Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita (Dellakino Arizona and Dellakino Omlet in SL). Kaori is from Japan (Tokyo) and Alain is from France (Paris). At the time they were working on a documentary-fiction about people who played the Sims and TSO, but the project has morphed into [...]
Full StoryTalks between Alliance Navy and Merczateers Stall. Will it be War Without End?
Merczateer Proteus Hand I was going about some routine editorial work in the Herald bunker in Jessie when an urgent communiqué from a Herald informant splashed onto my screen. According to the informant, the two great armies of Second Life – the Aliance Navy and the Merczateers were engaged in skirmishes again. It had been [...]
Full StoryHere Come the Kossacks!
Hijinks and Revelry at the YearlyKos Convention, Now Coming to an SL Island Near You! If you are at all involved in progressive politics you will know about the Daily Kos website. Employing an interesting AJAX powered social media software in which diary entries can be promoted to the main thread and in which comments [...]
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