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FICkle Forum ResMods
I’m not one to typically believe the typical "FIC" stereotype, and I don’t tend to give it much credence. However, a certain forum thread in the general forum caught my eye this morning as something that needed to be moved to the events forum, as other things of its kind had been in the past. [...]
Full StorySexy Spright? Fugly Fright? Get a life?
Current #1 is Guild Wars vixen Queen Christie. An Elementalist, of course. We are all familiar with the Hot or Not site, in which users with too much time on their hands rate the pictures of meat-space hotties and or notties. I believe there is also a “rate my avatar” site in which Prokofy Neva [...]
Full StoryEA Cuts 5% of Workforce
Or so says this article on Forbes.com. I was unclear on whether this move is driven by the weak games sales in the current shift to new consoles, or, as the EA Spokesperson *seems* to be suggesting — outsourcing that would have happened anyway. Oddly, the EA position seems to be this: we aren’t firing [...]
Full StoryInterview with TrannyPet Barmy
In this interview we speak with TrannyPet Barmy, the gifted scripter and alleged griefer who made the Hand of Satan push gun and the DBomber notecard spamming weapon in addition to an advertising broadcasting system during his first incarnation on Second Life. After being permabanned for questionable reasons, he returned as AsterixLe Gall – better [...]
Full StoryOh Joy, SL Taps Users to be Forum Mods — and we know how well THAT works.
The last time we saw users as forum mods. (Just a stroll down memory lane…). Yes, it’s true folks, dipping again into that inexhaustable well of users that will fluff for peanuts, the Lindens have enlisted a group of SL residents to moderate the SL Forums — or so reports Jeska Linen. Actually we like [...]
Full StoryWired News Covers Virtual Lecture Circuit
Joanna Glasner has an interesting article in Wired News on the topic of the recent spate of virtual lectures in Second Life by cyberlebrities such as Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig and others. Doctorow thought the format helped create a bond between author and audience, but the ever cranky professor Ludlow is not so sanquine: “It [...]
Full StoryMore Lessig Less Linden Please!
Gumby and his 300 pound Samoan Attorney enjoy their virtual autographed copies of Free Culture. by Paul Lineker, Iggy Sleeper, and Dirk Diggler This past Wednesday, Lawrence Lessig’s visited Second Life and was met by enthusiastic fans eager to hear his words regarding the cyberspace-related problems that have surfaced within recent years. By the time [...]
Full StoryHaaaaar! Johnny Cheesedog Steps Forward at Last.
Victim Number 26. This isn’t funny, it’s mean! In the early days of the Herald we posted a number BloodNinja cybersex chat logs. Remember “say Harrrrr like a pirate”? At the time we also posted a request that the author(s) come forward for their spanking. Well, now they have, and per their request we have [...]
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