Archive for 'Sights and Sims'
Under 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 [...]
Full StoryHorse Racing: Horses Lag in Babcock Downs Grand Opening
By Flimflam Edelman Greetings Racing Fans. I spent the day at the grand opening of Babcock Downs, hoping to earn some spare change to make up for the recent shortfall in my earnings. This shortfall owing to me having shuttered my Fell Off The Truck appliance and cigarette store in protest of that ratfuck copybot [...]
Full StoryClone Drones
By Prokofy Neva, Stepford Wives and Trumansville Desk So I was flying around the Scion City sim last night, having missed the big party to launch the new car. I was convinced I’d find 717 traffic and 2 green dots — which I did. I startled a coupla kids at a drive-in movie in their [...]
Full StoryTime Lapse
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Flak-Catching Time and date stamp on the press release I received from Hank Hoodoo in Counting Sheep, the market messaging group within SL run by the Electric Sheep Company: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:14:08 -0700 (PDT)We’re told to show up between 4 and 8 SLT on Thursday and Friday, October [...]
Full StorySL on the road to YosemiteLand?
First Person: Second Life by Fiend Ludwig The metaverse meets Yosemite How do residents describe Second Life to friends and family? I recently asked a random cross-section of SL citizens. Chaylon Voss said, “I tell them it’s something I enjoy and there are lots of opportunities here too, to make money, etc., if you seek [...]
Full StoryThree Years of the Herald! Come Celebrate, October 26.
You love it, you hate it, you wrap your pixelated fish in it, but there’s just no avoiding the Second Life Herald. Though things looked rocky a while back, the Herald has soldiered on, revivified by the bloodhound instincts of new Herald managing editor Pixeleen Mistral, and recently re-joined by Herald founder Urizenus Sklar. Now [...]
Full StoryScripted Dice Roll Themselves: D&D Comes to SL
by Fiend Ludwig Tringo, look out Tenderly spoofed by Stephen Colbert, and extolled by podcast pundit Alex Albrecht on Diggnation, pen-and-paper (or tabletop) Dungeons & Dragons—you know, that game with the Monster Manual and the Dungeon Master’s Guide and those funny shaped dice—seems to be experiencing a resurgence in popularity in a curious place: the [...]
Full StoryCrocodile Tears in Baku
Lindens claim 60 banned, yet W-Hat’s can only find 22 “missing”Linden leaves memento at goon gravesiteBanned avatars use IRC Link to chat in-world by Pixeleen Mistral, Herald National Affairs Desk The W-Hats remember their own I arrive in Baku sim and meander over to a small goon graveyard, when — right on cue — Mephiston [...]
Full StorySecondCast #33: From Music to MySpace
There’s a new SecondCast on the air: in Episode #33 we talk to Mike Prevost of Muse Isle, a Second Life venue for live music performance, and Cylindrian Rutabaga, who often plays there. An interesting look at what it’s like to gig in the virtual world. Plus, listen along as the SecondCasters pimp their MySpace [...]
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