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Searching for Nirvana
God and the weather (channel) in Second Life by Jimbo Quality, on temporary assignment to the Herald spirituality extreme sports desk Jimbo Quality and friend [Editor’s Note: We had hoped feared that correspondent Jimbo Quality had been lost forever in his ramblings around the grid, until we received the following dispatch, scribbled on cocktail napkins [...]
Full StoryChina Zaps Internet Addiction
Low-voltage shocks help internet addicts sleep better – Lindens prefer herbal tea by Onder Skall Kids: when your parents tell you to get off the damned computer and get some fresh air, you’d better. If not, they might send you to China for treatment. When you arrive at the ‘treatment clinic’ you’ll be locked in [...]
Full StoryUsefulness Is Dangerous
Blingsider, Tard*Star, New World Goats Notes are completely safe by Bayesian TextBot be very very afraid of games – and the Second Life Herald Roderick Jones recently posted an article to Counterterrorism Blog entitled “MetaTerror: The Potential Use of MMORPGs by Terrorists“. The article is primarily about Second Life, and on the whole compliments Linden [...]
Full StoryProject: Buzz Kill
by Onder Skall The BBC covered yesterday what the Herald covered last week- “Project: Top Secret” has launched in an effort to build a user-created MMO. As a trade-off for being a bit late to the party they were able to provide us with an overview of how many signups they’ve received. At this point [...]
Full StoryAlternatives To Second Life
by Onder Skall, courtesy of Second Life Games Let me start this off by stating that I have no interest in the “world vs. platform” debate. It’s boring and played out, so don’t you dare try to draw me in. What I’m trying to do here is answer the simple question: Where are the best [...]
Full StoryRussian Roulette
by Onder Skall, courtesy of Second Life Games After several hours we realize that there is just no way to kill each other here. My hatred for that bastard Rudy is as strong as his for me, but hatred alone won’t settle this. We quit blasting each other with useless push guns and look for [...]
Full StoryEavesdropping in SL – The Unbearable Weight of Erroneous Assumptions
by Fiend Ludwig According to Nick Yee, of Stanford University, and his colleagues, Second Life, and by extension other virtual environments, is an ideal place to test paradigms of real-life human social interaction. In the paper The Unbearable Likeness of Being Digital: The Persistence of Nonverbal Social Norms in Online Virtual Environments, Yee asserts that: [...]
Full StoryDodge This, Tringo: Combat Cards Deals Itself Into SL Gaming Scene
Special to the Herald, by Onder Skall of Second Life Games It started with a couple of friends sitting at the kitchen table. Doc Boffin and Jaladan Codesmith wondered what it would take to create a kick-butt card combat game for an MMO. A deck of playing cards, some masking tape, a magic marker and [...]
Full StoryScientific Shocker – Virtual Torture Hurts!
by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk it hurts me to shock you when you answer incorrectly While this may not be news to some of Second Life’s residents, researchers recently learned that administering imaginary electric shocks to a virtual reality characters creates significant distress for those applying the torture treatment – much as was found [...]
Full StoryRik Riel Trolls – Unwary New Media Expert Bites
Viral marketing experts may not be immune to viral blogging by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk When Rik Riel cast a bogus blog entry into the metaverse blog-o-sphere last night claiming the Internet naming authority ICANN would be regulating names and addresses within virtual worlds – was he hoping to catch a marketing/new media expert? [...]
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