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Fear and Loathing in Second Life, Part 7: The Sordid History of the Big Brother Fiasco, Day 1
[Readers of the Herald will recall our earlier reports on the disaster that was Big Brother in Second Life. Perhaps you *didn't* know that our faithful correspondent, Gideon Television was there, as a contestant! Well it is so. Today Gideon begins retelling (in day-by-day "blow"-by-"blow" fashion) the whole sordid tale. Sorry we didn't publish this [...]
Full StoryGoon Public Service Announcements
Philip Linden and Plastic Duck – as seen by Something Awful goons by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Recently, Decomposing Monstre dropped by with a series of public service announcements to share with Herald readers – but these presented a serious publishing problem — how to create a real multiverse media mashup on the web [...]
Full StoryInterview With the Agoraphobic: Fighting the Fear in Second Life
by Aidan Aquacade Meet Roberto, quite an eye-catching avatar who is one of the more interesting characters that can be found frequenting random areas of the Second Life world that we explore from day to day. Above Roberto’s head is a floating, spinning, square picture of his real-life self. This floating image of himself is [...]
Full StoryWhat the Hell, Buy a Car
The grand opening of Mororati Island today also coincided with a broadcast on Michigan Radio (an NPR affiliate) about the meatspace car biz in second life. Apart from the velvety Barry White voice talents of Professor Ludlow demonstrating his Scion and his Francis Chung Dominus Shadow, there is some interesting commentary from people that actually [...]
Full StorySecond Convention Hits Second Life, March 1-3
SL resident ZATZAi Asturias has announced the first Second Convention, to he held in Second Life, March 1-3. No word yet on how or whether you need to register in advance, but if avatars don’t choke Artificial Isle to a crawl, it could be a fun few days of sailing, speechifying, fun-poking, partying and hawking [...]
Full StoryMagic Alley Closing
Metaverse Hogwarts students turned out on the street by Curious Rousselot, Magical Affairs desk Surprised members of the *Hogwarts Reborn* group learned the Harry Potter role playing sim, Magic Alley, would be shutting down when they received a group announcement shortly before 5:00 PM today. Petra Carpenter, the driving force behind the sim, felt she [...]
Full StoryMad SL Science Experiments
Flickr-ing light and streaming video by Fiend Ludwig Answering an invitation to preview their newest creations, I recently met up with Hallie the Chatbot developers Anthony Reisman and Navillus Batra, founders of Metaverse Technologies, at their newly acquired location for ‘mad scientist experiments,’ as Reisman puts it. Upon arrival I am greeted by a giant [...]
Full StoryBMW’s No-Drive Zone
by Fiend Ludwig [We sent Herald reporter Fiend Ludwig to test-drive some Beemers in Second Life -- only to find the project could hardly get into first gear.--Walker Spaight] BMW New World: Dude, where’s my SL car? Another corporate sim equals another deserted island. This formula, oft trundled out by the not-so-mainstream media seems, in [...]
Full StoryLindens Likely to Limit Landbots
Seismic activity detected to east – new continent may appear soon by Pixeleen Mistral, National Affairs desk Rockin’ Robin Linden acknowledged today what Herald readers have known for some time – automated bots that scan for land bargains, then swoop in for high speed purchases have made it extremely difficult for puny, slow, weak human-controlled [...]
Full StoryShock! Fashion Designer Knockoffs
Designer copy victims banned from knockoff shop By Seola Sassoon News yesterday and this morning spread across my screen in the Sellers Guild chat channel about a ‘new designer’. In fact, it wasn’t a new designer, but an account with blatantly ripped items from many popular designers. I teleported in to immediately recognize some Nyte [...]
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