The Alphaville Herald

Picking the Toaster with Pella Tully

Prokofy Neva, Tech Talkback Dept. Limbering up to cover next week’s Virtual Worlds 2007, a conference in New York that promises to be a kind of 1964 World’s Fair, I dropped in on CNET after getting one of GreeterDan Godel’s group messages. Pella Tully (Caterina Fake is her RL name), co-founder of Flickr and Yahoo [...]

SCANDAL!!! SL’s Next Top Model… Has a Twin?

Copycat drama in the SL fashion world – SHOCK! by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista models from the “tilde” group BooBooKittie Haight, proprieter and brains behind Catwalk City, has a problem. Her brainchild, the “SL Next Top Model” (SLNTM) contest, has a competitor with exactly the same name plus a tilde: “ ~SL Next Top Model~”. [...]

Surface Tension

by Fiend Ludwig It is a pond and I live on the surface tension. I suspect that the same is true, too,For the New Priests:The blogger-kings and scripter-czars,The kulaks and uber-griefers and Linden-spawn.Drilling through the boundary at will,Extracting enrichment and inspiration.Submerging only if pressed, While the uninitiated drown amongst the choke of weeds. It has [...]

Giuliani Campaign Dances Into Second Life (Sort of)

[Editor's Note: The following is an unpaid political announcement received this evening at the Herald offices from virtual political operative and Second Life resident GenJCChristian Homewood. Had I not been going about my usual duties of picking up Pixeleen's cigarette butts planning tomorrow's coverage, I might have missed it. Fortunately, we are able to bring [...]

Here Come the Kossacks!

Hijinks and Revelry at the YearlyKos Convention, Now Coming to an SL Island Near You! If you are at all involved in progressive politics you will know about the Daily Kos website. Employing an interesting AJAX powered social media software in which diary entries can be promoted to the main thread and in which comments [...]

The Tale of the Duke and The Hunt

as told by Morgdah Graves[This story is told around the campfires in Avilion - the Editrix] There was this Duke of a large parcel of land, he had servants, slaves,women at his beck and call. He was known to be the hunter of all hunters.His great hall was full of trophiesThe trophies were of many [...]

Crowd Sourced Fun at the Herald!

by Onder Skall Game Set Watch recently posted “Perpetuating Game Naming Stereotypes For Fun/Profit“. It was a contest to come up with the world’s most stereotypical game name. The results were pretty awesome. I think “WWII: World War II” was my favorite. Of course, these things never stay contained, and soon Kotaku commenters were coming [...]

On Board the Endeavour

[Editor's Note: The Herald HQ occupies a landlocked plot in Second Life's Hyperborea sim, so it was with great surprise that we found washed up on our non-existent shoreline a waterlogged book, in the pages of which we found a sketch of Tiny Newt's barque, the Endeavour, as well as the scrap of a diagram [...]

Plywood #72: Return of the Living Dead

Searching for Nirvana

God and the weather (channel) in Second Life by Jimbo Quality, on temporary assignment to the Herald spirituality extreme sports desk Jimbo Quality and friend [Editor’s Note: We had hoped feared that correspondent Jimbo Quality had been lost forever in his ramblings around the grid, until we received the following dispatch, scribbled on cocktail napkins [...]