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Sausalito Smackdown: Millions of Sheep?
by Pat the Rat While Reuben Steiger, who runs Millions of Us, one of the Big Three players in the metaverse-industrial complex, tried to make light of it in a recent blog post, Pat the Rat hears that the recent meeting of the minds between Reuben and Electric Sheep Company CEO Sibley Verbeck was hardly [...]
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[editor’s note: Kris Dibou is one of the new wave of warrior poets/pirates that make Second Life such an exciting literary scene. Here is his latest work.] Avatars I went to sleep last night and dreamt of avatarsSymbolic of our souls desire made visible to allAnd through the eyes of avatars we danced, we loved, [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the Second
by Tiny Newt The view from the crow’s nest [Editor's Note: Three cheers for the currents of the Adriatic, which found another champagne bottle clunking against our hull this morning as I walked the decks of the Herald yacht, attempting to keep down last night's caviar. Unfortunately, though, no hair of the dog was to [...]
Full StoryYAAR! The Pirates of Sanchon, Parte the First
[Editor's Note: The Herald yacht is regularly buffeted by various forms of flotsam and jetsam, most of which we sell to the virtual tin man that plies the waters in which we roam. Recently, however, a champagne bottle clanked against our hull. Believing it to contain the sweet elixir that powers the Herald presses, I [...]
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 StoryThe Ghost Islands of Second Life
Edelman Island, The Loneliest Ghost Island of All It was Morlin, the Prime Minister of Shivar, who called the meeting. Gopod knows I hate meetings, but I am the Overlord of Shivar and I do take my responsibilities seriously. I am Overlord of Shivar because I bought the island as my own personal Xanadu, but [...]
Full StoryDisoriented
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of New Residents Experience Evaluation and Manager, Alt Depot Get ready for the big SL backlash. It’s not just Clay Shirky stirring up a shit-storm at the eggheads’ Terra Nova, prompting a new rigorous discussion of “metrics of use“. It’s not just the leftoid Guardian but now the more conservative London [...]
Full StoryElf Magic
By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk. A dragon roared. An imposing arctic wolf white lion flourished his cape. Arrows whirred, and mushrooms in the glen glistened. Our lovely elven hostess, decked in a moss-green holiday gown, beckoned to us to dance, and Herald reporters skidded across the aquamarine ice. Jaycatt and a Frogg were on [...]
Full StoryUnder Big Blue MegaPrim Skies
The tiny green dots assemble for a stress-test of the IBM four corners. By Prokofy Neva, Community Affairs Desk After a somewhat rocky start with an overloaded region at the usual place in Warmouth, a meeting of the Society for Virtual Architecture, featuring IBM’s Lead Architect in SL Jessica Qin, got going at the four [...]
Full StoryHTML-On-A-Prim!
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Governance Some of you may be trapped in a laggy, hopeless event right now, where you’ll be hearing a tiresome story heard many times before about…Havoc on a Prim. Meanwhile, just minutes before that insignifcant lag-bomb hypervent is due to open, the Herald labs, known for their fabulous creation of [...]
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