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Cost of SL Escort Services to Rise?
Rates going up? Screenshot of Cardie via cardiemahoney.com. According to infamous Second Life Escort Cardie Mahoney, the cost of professional cybersex is bound to rise by virtue of the recently announced price increases for islands. Her reasoning is as follows: With the island tier going up, the owners of new islands building clubs (and there [...]
Full StoryBig Biz Spending in the Metaverse: Millions for Giant Boxy Corporate Monuments, Nothing for Dialogue and Thought
Big corporations have been falling all over themselves to get into virtual worlds and impress us with the fine corporate builds (i.e. big ugly boxy things), spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on them according to Business Week. They also like to tell us how big they are on conversing and wanting to learn. That [...]
Full StoryTravel: Matt Gross’s Night in Paris
Impressed as all fuck by his fascinating travel reporting on Second Life in the New York Times, the Second Life Herald has commissioned Matt Gross (aka Urge Gainsbourg) to be the travel reporter for other fascinating destinations with diverse cultures. As his first assignment, we sent him to France. Following, is Matt’s eagerly awaited report. [...]
Full StoryWould You Buy a New Car from this Vending Machine?
Or from JR Breed… Screenshots via New World Notes. A couple days ago our good friend Hamlet Au had a most excellent post on the traffic drawn by the Nissan build vs. that generated by indigenous car guy JR Breed. Hammie does a good job of quantifying the fact that JR gets more visitors, and [...]
Full StoryBusiness Week: In SL, Boxy Buildings and Objects Look Best!
RacerX Gullwing’s magical snail-race chariot meets a Scion. As You Can Tell, We Just Cannot Get Enough of this Screenshot! I was so godsmacked by Prok’s link to the Business Week article on how much money was being given to developers by meat space corporations that I plum missed the sidebar/playbook in which Business Week [...]
Full StoryReport from Year 2010: “Second Life Has Been Pacified!”
By Future-Embedded Reporter Poindexter Linden In this Screenshot an elegant Scion makes its first forays in the the silly hideous world that was Second Life back in 2006. Lord Philip, following please find my report on the great success of our Second Life Pacification Project, otherwise designated SLPP-108b. I can assure you that apart from [...]
Full StoryUri Does Strumpette; Hates on PR Fucktards
Your humble servant Uri has a guest column in the PR/marketing blog Strumpette, at the invitation of head strumpette Amanda Chapel. In the article, I argue that the new corporate builds in Second Life are standing out mostly for their rust-belt aesthetic and mind numbing lack of creativity, and that the endless false claims of [...]
Full StoryDestroy Television to Broadcast Herald Birthday
For those of you who can’t afford a free account at Second Life, but don’t want to be left out of Theeee Metaverse Social Event of Fall 2006, I am happy to report that the nonstop broadcasting avatar, “Destroy Television” will be on the ground, beaming the debauchery live on Teh Interweb. I mean Teh [...]
Full StoryUri Does Snoozecast!
Episode 38 of Simcast Second Cast is now podcasting through a speaker/headphone near you. In this episode hosts Johnny Ming and Torrid Midnight (that voice: swoon) talk to Hyperventilators Eric Rice (aka Spin Martin) and Jerry Paffendorf (aka SNOOPYbrown Zamboni of the Electric Sheep Company) and yours truly, Urizenus Sklar. I have to say it [...]
Full StoryHerald Announces First Virtual Birthday Party in Second Life. Ever!!!
Waiting at the Herald Party in Hyperborea: CLICK HERE FOR A SLURL TO TAKE YOU TO THE EVENT! Yes, it’s true, the 3rd Birthday Party of the Second Life Herald will be the first virtual birthday party ever held in second life. We know this, because we googled “First birthday party in second life” and [...]
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