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Classes Start at Hogwarts
Students celebrate with a ball by Curious Rousselot, Magical Affairs desk Excitement abounds on the island of Oahu, home to Wizard’s Alley – the biggest Harry Potter fan group in Second Life. The builders, under the direction of Harry Prefect, are frantically finishing the castle while Darcy Rutledge has been busy organizing teachers and arranging [...]
Full StoryBeautiful – part one
by aurel MilesIn the Round World we have a hundred different sayings about beauty – what it means; “Truth is beauty and beauty is truth” – what it is; “Beauty is only skin deep” How it behaves, “Beauty is as Beauty does” and where to find it; “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.” [...]
Full StorySL City of Lost Angels Goes Open Source
Fight freely – community combat system combat system to be released in May by Onder Skall, Gaming in SL desk I’ve been billing the City of Lost Angels for awhile now as the “queen of SL RPGs”. It’s among the oldest, has the most unbelievably hardcore players, and has been tested as having the fastest [...]
Full StoryGriefer U
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs The Herald has been deluged lately with indignant complaints about weird goon goings-on in what is supposed to be an educational sim, Woodbury University. As usually with all the Eddie Haskelling and word-salad alibi-Ike sort of stuff involved, it’s hard to get at the truth — and as [...]
Full StoryJesse Malthus 4/21/06-4/19/07
By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Community Affairs In a week of horror and sad cruelty with the massacre at Virginia Tech, comes a separate piece of sad news of a young man cut down at his most promising. The typist of the avatar Jesse Malthus, a 17-year-old Kentucky youth named Jesse Higginbotham, was killed in [...]
Full StoryOp/Ed: Holiday Drama – As Usual?
by Inigo Chamerberlin As if it’s not bad enough that LL has to keep ‘updating’ or ‘maintaining’ SL on Wednesdays, thus guaranteeing that the consequent chaos continues over the weekend – because LL insists on running San Francisco office hours only, with apparently no cover outside those hours except a couple of unfortunate Grid Monkeys [...]
Full StoryPower to the SLitizens!: Here Come the SL Anarchists!
The Second Life Anarchists, also known as the Durruti Group (after Spanish anarchist Buenaventura Durruti) have a cause and they have a manifesto (reprinted below the fold). But my favorite part of the manifesto is the following parenthetical remark: While we laud LL for their foresight, and technical achievement in bringing SL to be, and [...]
Full StorySign-Extortionist Masons Help Coldwell Banker into Second Life
Mason and sign extortionist Chrischun Fassbinder, notorious for the Mr. Lee’s Hong Kong signs, and Ancient Shriner, another spinning sign-griefer, bring RL real estate firm Coldwater Banker to SL. Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Virtual Estate Oh, no, here we go again. Remember how Philip told us that when big business came to Second Life, that [...]
Full StoryBody Doubles: Another IP Puzzle for SL
Here is an interesting question. Body Doubles is a Second Life company run by Persia Christensen that sells body shapes that supposedly correspond to RL stars along with instructions on how you can make your avi look like the star. From Persia’s promotional literature: With this body double shape and my avatar suggestions, you too [...]
Full StoryThe Lindens Do Good
Jeska readies the pitchforks for the mobs at Office Hours in Linden Village at Ambleside. By Prokofy Neva, Dept. of Kremlindenology OMG a man-bites-dog story for sure. Well, we Herald reporters can’t always go around with our half-curled lips, with that sunken, two-burnt-out-holes-in-a-blanket look in our eyes from a 3-day drunk, and our felt hats [...]
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