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Is Beauty Only Pixel Deep?
by Budka GroshommeKim Charlton fuels a few philosophical ponderings Can one fall in love at first sight? Could the sunset ever be as lovely as the time you first glimpsed the girl of your dreams walking along the seashore, coming toward you, a vision with flowing blonde locks and tight bodice? The sight of her [...]
Full StoryFootnote-In-Mouth Disease
Neal’s brain hurts. My virtual-world name is now footnoted in a real life essay by a real life Law Professor writing about the virtual-world tabloid journalist who is also a real life Philosophy Professor. Welcome to the metaverse!
Full StoryForget the Turing Test, How about the Paula Abdul Test?
In an extremely interesting post on Terra Nova, Nathan Combs talks about scripting dance animations on second life. I’m never really sure what Nathan is saying, but his post contains speculation that the animations have an odd kind of community-forming function. He then speculates on the possibility more unpredictable dancers and wonders if one might [...]
Full StoryThe W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)
By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]
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 [...]
Full StoryNew Scientist: The Walls are Crumbling!
New Scientist has a short article on how Sony’s new Station Exchange (reported earlier in the Herald) is yet more evidence of the crumbling walls between the real world and virtual worlds. Of course we’ve heard this from the French before, but this time they quote a real live American Philosopher from a land grant [...]
Full StoryGwyneth: A decentralized, open-source Second Life?
When Gwyneth Llewelyn comes up with some food for thought, it’s usually not a light salad. At her blog she has led a herd of cattle into our living rooms, slaughtered them and impaled their carcasses on rotisseries, ready to be consumed. Her post ‘More thoughts on expanding Second Life® to the metaverse…’ outlines a [...]
Full StoryStealing Dreams
Perhaps best known as author of the ‘Newbie 2 Newbie’ column, Rose Karuna has returned in print for the first time since writing for the now-defunct SecondLIFE Magazine. It is worth noting that even back in her SL Magazine days, Rose was already flirting with the questionable journalism practices that have made the Herald famous, [...]
Full StoryBedazzled and Stark Bollock Naked
The Herald staff aren’t always as quick off the mark as we’d like to be. When a forum thread on the Bedazzle Nude pics got underway, our editorial board were passed out underneath a poker table following a drunken brawl over the six aces Uri had found in his shirt-sleeve.
Full StoryWhich Came First: the Creativity or the Creator?
by Budka Groshomme Wander at random through Second Life and creativity seems to spring from every corner. Everyone, it seems, is building something. It might be trivial, ugly, overstated, ornate, minimalist, inconsequential, heroic, or offensive but, by God, they are building it! The creative variety is overwhelming. If you doubt this, take a look at [...]
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