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Pierce Entertainment Announces Auditions for Waiting For Godot
Sorry I neglected to post this press release earlier — too much happening these days. Anyway the skinny is this: Pierce Entertainment, LTD has announced auditions for Waiting for Godot. I would have called it Waiting for MOMI.
Full StoryOh joy, and now for the email spoofers
Everyone in the Alphaville community should be on alert that someone has been spoofing email accounts in an attempt to transmit viruses/worms. Spoofing is a fairly simple hacking technique, wherein one sends an email that appears to be coming from another source. In recent days, the email addresses of both Mr-President and Peter Ludlow (ludlow@umich.edu) [...]
Full StoryTSO boycott petition making rounds
This online petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?Qd3d&1) may have gone up a while ago, but it only just came to our attention (thanks to Mr-P for the pointer). It is, in effect, a protest of the $10/month fee for the online game. The reasoning in the petition is more or less nonexistent and the language is barely literate, [...]
Full StoryVan’s Sim_Bitch69 Account Under Control of Mr. President Bradley
Mr. President Bradly has acquired control of Evangeline’s in game accounts and also his YIM account sim_bitch69, and has been using the latter to communicate with many members of the Alphaville community under the guise of Evangeline, and in certain cases to (allegedly) send Trojan horses. Messages from that account are not from Van and [...]
Full StoryMr-President and Ashley on NPR
Ashley Richardson and Mr-President were intereviewed on NPR’s “talk of the nation” April 7th. This show is a Must Listen, since there are also interviews of Ted Castronova, Julien Dibbell, and Henry Jenkins on virtual economies, virtual cultures etc.
Full StoryNew York Times Picks up Alphaville Elections
The New York Times article on the Alphaville Elections is now up athttp://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/01/technology/circuits/01sims.html?ex=1081400400&en=e5984c6cc0bf6db8&ei=5062. There is a cute picture of Ashley Richardson on the online version. I noticed that the article used the term ‘gievers’ instead of ‘griefers’. Perhaps the most significant revelation in the article is that they now quote EA as saying that TSO [...]
Full StoryAlphaville Elections Break into the InfoSphere
The Elections for President of the Alphaville Government, which have been covered here in the Alphaville Herald and picked up by Wired News has now been slashdotted and put under the scope of the eggheads at Terra Nova. Can another Daily Show episode be far behind? To top it all off, British newspaper The Independent [...]
Full StoryAVG Primary Election Today!
Sorry folks, this election snuck up on me. Today is the day for the first primary election for the presidency of the Alphaville Government. This election will narrow the field of contestants to two, and they will compete in a second primary. The winner of that second primary will face Mr-President for election in April. [...]
Full StoryThe Alphaville Herald on the Boob Tube
CNN has produced a story on the joys of cyberbrothels in alphaville. It’s up on their website at http://premium.cnn.com/pr/video/meta/tech/2004/02/11/bb.sin.city.cnn.np.smil. I have no idea if it has aired on the network. It seems that the reporter (Bruce Burkhardt) got his virtual ashes hauled in the Jiggolo [sic] Escorts cyber brothel, which offers a good hour of [...]
Full StoryStatistics
This should blow a few minds. Blew mine. Web Server Statistics for alphavilleherald.com
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