Clicking could be good.Two Second Life hotties, apparently not involved in the Spanish Virtual Civil War. No further details available.
Zaftig ist gut.
This week Suzanne Vega's avatar will be building a virtual guitar and performing in Second Life. I think registration is free. When you find the Postcard Map, click on the red dots.
If you're sickened by and tired of all the political, sectarian and religious hate and violence in the Real World, you can register with Second Life and find yourself in the middle of political, sectarian and religious hate and violence in C-Space.
Last night my avatar disemboweled the entire Sim family. To date, S.W.M.B.O. has murdered 12,683 Word of Blake believers. She hates them Blakies.
Incidentally, I think somebody just bought Reuters for a gazillion Euros. That can't be good for anybody.
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Reuters
Thursday 17 May 2007
Warring Spanish political
parties torch, bomb, machine-gun
each other's headquarters
gazillions killed, dismembered, maimed
MADRID -- Spain's bitter political wrangling has spread to Second Life with supporters of socialist and conservative parties trying to burn down each others' party offices in the virtual world.
"They have thrown bombs, entered the building with sub-machine guns, lit fires, everything you could imagine," an official from Spain's ruling Socialist Party, using the Second Life moniker Zeros Kuhm, told Reuters.
In the real world, hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have flooded Spanish streets over the past year, accusing the government of capitulating to Basque separatist guerrillas ETA.
"We have complained to the Second Life commission about the terrorism," a spokesman for the conservative opposition Popular Party said in Second Life.
Second Life is a popular online virtual world with millions of registered users and its own economy and currency.
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The Register
Friday 18 May 2007
Spanish politicos slug it out
in Second Life
Explosions and gunfire shake Sadville
by Lester Haines
Spain's two main political parties have been indulging in some light scrapping in the run-up to this month's local elections by attempting to burn down each other's Second Life headquarters, Reuters reports.
The "bitter political wrangling" between the socialist government, represented by the PSOE, and the conservative opposition, the Partido Popular (PP), has been entertaining Spaniards for months as the two abandon any pretence at political debate and roundly accuse each other of provoking the collapse of western civilisation.
Most seriously, the PP accuses the government of "capitulating" to Basque terrorist group ETA by entering into dialogue with the fun-loving separatists. This has provoked huge rallies in support of a no-nonsense hard line against ETA, at which much inflammatory rhetoric has aroused nationalist sentiments.
So inflammatory, in fact, that the PSOE accuses PP supporters of all manner of virtual outrages in Sadville. A PSOE official known as "Zeros Kuhm" explained: "They have thrown bombs, entered the building with sub-machine guns, lit fires, everything you could imagine."
The PP, meanwhile, says it's been handed the same treatment. A party spokesman said: "We have complained to the Second Life commission about the terrorism."
Given the way things are going, we suggest it's only a matter of time before the United Nations is forced to intervene in Second Life, possibly prompted to action by a US pre-emptive strike against the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad shopping mall's enriched uranium emporium. Watch this space.
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5 comments:
What a shame Marshall McLuhan is not around anymore, or at least someone like him. he would tell the boys and girls out there where the hammer is hanging and straighten out a few things. He had warned us, all those intellectuals believed that Marsh predicted good things to come fur us but they did not listen correctly. I bet he is up there in heaven on a could with Glenn Gould and Neil Postman saying: See, lads I told them for they woudld not listen.
I mean I dont mind about cyberspace and computer games and so on. I grew up with them and, yes, I also have a Playstation but I dont need a Second Life, I am happy with my First Life, thank you very much.
(And if I will ever try something out like Second Life I will try to get a job as media critic in one of those virtual newspapers that the must have I hope) i mean, if your idea of fon is to start a Civil War in Vr then you must be way off your rocker....
I still like the Spanish Virtual Civil War better than the original Spanish Civil War.
The same way I liked seeing the dirty old sex pervert murder the virgin's father in "Don Giovanni" -- knowing they were all Puppe, marionettes. Puppet blood is not pretty -- but you just re-tie all their strings after the show and pack them away, no harm done.
Now I guess somebody in Spain will create a Generalissimo Francisco Franco avatar to virtually annihilate all the virtual Socialists. The Hemingway avatar will write a beautiful script called "For Whom The Beep Tolls."
And another new kind of Virtual War -- Russian hackers are making mass Denial Of Service attacks on Estonian financial and government websites. Mayhem, distruption, loss -- but only electrons in the streets and websites crashing, no blood on the cobblestones of Tallin. Even NATO now has a defense brigade not to stop advancing russian tanks, but to defend NATO members against the Hacker Wars.
Cyberterrorism is Evil! But at least I won't have to get up early and put on my fancy suit to go to any funerals on cold rainy days. I can attend the funerals with my trackball.
Well as we all know Marsh postulated the idea that THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE by which he meant that it is not important what is on a media (Internet, TV etc) but what kind of effects it has on society as a whole or social groups or minorities. McLuhan never had the opportunity to see his theories in full effect, the most radical changes in media and technology have taken place within 20 years with breathtaking speed. It has been a bloody long way from Pac Man to Second Life. For my generation that was still SF like Neureomancer, for your generation probably unthinkable. Maybe this would have scared Marsh. The kids of today out there who read Otherland have no problem with VR like Second Life, but i still have my doubts about virtual civil wars and virtual funerals Marsh would probably agree with me that VR will only be an imitation or mirror of RL, i still prefer the latter.
Maybe I am wrong, Neil and Marsh and Glenn would have a ball. Maybe he would be happy to know that we live in a manuscriptless society (he claimed that everything went downhill after Gutenberg) with all those SMS, emoticons and avatars. Maybe even with the civil war in Second Life.
anyway, interesting times we live in. Maybe even i will check out this Second life thing
Well as we all know Marsh postulated the idea that THE MEDIA IS THE MESSAGE by which he meant that it is not important what is on a media (Internet, TV etc) but what kind of effects it has on society as a whole or social groups or minorities. McLuhan never had the opportunity to see his theories in full effect, the most radical changes in media and technology have taken place within 20 years with breathtaking speed. It has been a bloody long way from Pac Man to Second Life. For my generation that was still SF like Neureomancer, for your generation probably unthinkable. Maybe this would have scared Marsh. The kids of today out there who read Otherland have no problem with VR like Second Life, but i still have my doubts about virtual civil wars and virtual funerals Marsh would probably agree with me that VR will only be an imitation or mirror of RL, i still prefer the latter.
Maybe I am wrong, Neil and Marsh and Glenn would have a ball. Maybe he would be happy to know that we live in a manuscriptless society (he claimed that everything went downhill after Gutenberg) with all those SMS, emoticons and avatars. Maybe even with the civil war in Second Life.
anyway, interesting times we live in. Maybe even i will check out this Second life thing
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