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Epic Google Translate Fail: Goat-time with Wind, Pole, Dragon
An insult to father’s stones? Working at the Herald, I have cultivated an appreciation for broken english robot haiku comments submitted by non-anglophone entrepreneurs looking for just one more link to web sites featuring vital lifestyle accessories. After all – gaming Google search ranking is what passes for marketing in the Internet age and it is [...]
Full StoryTizzers Trolls Twitter: Microsoft <3 Second Life
Media depends on echo chamber for "news" 24 hours after Tizzers Foxchase placed a single post on Twitter – a little birdie told me that Microsoft may have silently offered tp buy Linden Lab this week – the outstanding quality of reporting in the internet age is all too apparent. Tizzers Foxchase Trolls Twitter While [...]
Full StoryMore Errors Found in WSJ WikiLeaks Article
Wall Street Journal’s Jeanne Whalen busted for more journalistic FAIL by Urizenus Sklar – Contributing Editor and Interwebs Legend The Alphaville Herald Editors have asked that I come out of retirement to investigate this WikiLeaks matter, and I have to say that I am more than a little peeved by the whole thing. Is there [...]
Full StoryHacktivism, Governance, and Copyright Debates 4chan Style
Operation Payback follows The Wrong Hands vs Justice League Unlimited script Terra Nova is the term used to describe our weird existence in the digital realm that we call virtual worlds. Edward Castronova claims that we are in the process of exodus to these worlds. Equally interesting to note is that, as new worlds, our [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab Has No Apparent Business Plan
by Ron T Blechner (Hiro Pendragon on SL) How does Linden Lab, creators of the most popular non-game virtual world, Second Life, make their money? Easy: land and a cut of the marketplace. How are they going to ensure that they continue to have this revenue stream? Easy: Stick their fingers in their ears and [...]
Full StoryThe Hall of Mirrors and The Real World
A note from the Alphaville Herald Editors Since the Alphaville Herald’s inception in 2003, we have covered the news of online worlds and societies like no one else. You’ve enjoyed tales of griefers, scammers, virtual mafias, virtual paramilitary organizations, epic trolls, perverts, furries, babyfurs, baby unicorns, goreans, elves, online Nazis, anti-Nazis, virtual communists, dirty dealing [...]
Full StoryWhy is Jeanne Whalen Stonewalling Me on Her WikiLeaks Story?
Urizenus Sklar unretires (again) and explains!!! Picture this. It was Sept. 17 and I was kicking back with a glass of Ransom Gin on ice while celebrating the publication of my article on WikiLeaks in The Nation, when the mojo wire crackled to life. I had incoming email via an anonymous remailer routed through Belgium. [...]
Full StoryLinden Lab’s Missing Statistics
Fat Men, Fapping, and Graft Offer Hope For Linden Lab by Journey Yellowlist This reporter, after breaking and entering an undercover assignment at Linden Lab, discovered a veritable trove of statistics that the company had chosen to suppress when they recently revealed a complete stagnation steady-state model of player activity in Second Life. Given that [...]
Full Story“Punk Ass Pranksta” p0wns Digital Worlds Sim
Prokofy Neva Suspended – The Wrong Hands Banned – Rancor Sim Trashed By Linden Lab? Friday afternoon, all homes in the Digital Worlds sim were destroyed, the Digital Worlds group membership was decimated, and Chainsword Audion gifted L$103,000 – his entire account balance – to the ever-popular Prokofy Neva. How was this possible? According to [...]
Full StoryPalmindan Whybrow — Post 6 Model
[I was somewhere on the grid and noticed Palmindan Whybrow standing near me. He's a good looking avie, so I snooped his profile to see if he might be someone for Post 6. His profile is brilliant, and as you'll see in a minute, he is too. Without further ado, this week's Post 6 Model, [...]
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