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FICtory Dance
In the wake of Prok’s banning from the SL forums, the Feted Inner Core is having a virtual victory dance on the Linden supervised forums. No comment really, just one of those things that make ya go “hmmmm…”.
Full StoryProk/FIC Wars Lead to New Forum Policies
The repercussions of the board war between virtual agitator Prokofy Neva and the Feted Inner Core (the SL denizens who have allegedly found favor with Linden Lab and constitute an in game Aristocracy according to Prok) has led to the announcement of a new policy governing behavior online and in game. Of special note is [...]
Full StoryWrite for the Second Life Herald! – Please!
The Second Life Herald needs writers! With the fast pace of news developing on the Grid, Second Life’s most widely read news source is looking to expand its coverage by hiring one or two reporters and a number of freelancers (and possibly an editor) to cover in-world events, economics, sights, sounds and even scandals. If [...]
Full StoryWho is that guy?
This guy Mark Wallace is all over the NY Times, these days, most recently giving a story about big time earners and real estate moguls in Second Life. The article is The Game Is Virtual. The Profit Is Real, and our friend Anshe and other big earners in SL figure in a major way. Again, [...]
Full StoryAnother Meeting. Another Post-Literate Future.
Yesterday I attended a meeting of the SL Future Salon, organized by Jeffrey Paffendorf (SNOOPYbrown Zamboni ) of the Acceleration Studies Foundation. The idea of the SL Future Salon is to bring clever futurists (and presentists?) together in SL to discuss the shape of things to come. This round the speakers were Betsy Book (Skyllar [...]
Full StoryCollared! A Newbie goes to Port Kar and gets a taste of Gorean Iron
By Anonymous No0b “Next, the master told me to strip. I didn’t respond immediately, I think mostly because the idea that I was supposed to do something just because he said so didn’t compute in my brain. He repeated the request again, this time explaining that he needed to see me, because I belonged to [...]
Full StoryTrailer Park Trash!
The following is a public service announcement by Mrs. President Chomsky After my campaign against the culling and extermination of virtual pets on TSO (with my good friend St. Frank), I was so exhausted I was going to give up activism for a while, but this is Just. Too. Much. On a recent stroll I [...]
Full StoryWedding: Marilyn Murphy and Fleenie Jensen
by Matthias Zander The Herald would like to congratulate Marilyn Murphy and Fleenie Jensen on their SecondLife marriage. The ceremony was this past Friday, May 7 at 7 PM game time in the Stardust sim. According to the Herald’s sources, over 200 invitations were sent out, but only 60 were able to come to the [...]
Full StoryHammie Blows Lid off FIC ZombiFICation Center
Free thinking SLers are converted into slaves of the Feted Inner Core (image stolen from NWN) In what is doubtless his finest work to date as a virtual journalist, Hamlet Linden of New World Notes (the House Organ of Linden Lab) broke his leash and gave the hand that feeds him a good chomping by [...]
Full StoryThe W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (1/2)
By Neal Stewart 24 hours ago, the W-Hats celebrated their 1-Year Birthday in Second Life at their “W-Hat Super Happy Fun Time Land”. “Cake and ice cream for every girl and boy!”, read the event listing. In classic W-Hat fashion, a host of neon pigs, robots, smoking chimpanzees and wheelchair-bound Mad-Hatters laughed and danced away [...]
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