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Tourist Booth 17 Jul 2005
You may have been in the markets lately and have noticed something called a tourist Booth. If you have been wondering why I thought it was a good idea to make a tourist booth for all those cowillians from the alternate universe if they should decide to come here and want to stay here for a day visit then they might find something in the tourist shop a good idea to remember their visit by buying something at a low low price.
There are Postcards, Magnets and all those other little trinkets that you would find in any tourist shop.
So come on in, with a great item for half the price, at THE TOURIST BOOTH!
Too good to ignore 16 Jul 2005
"Everyone in cow is nice" said wolis in an optomistic mood. may not always be the case.
If you encounter a cowillian who for some reason should be ignored, just add their name to your ignore list.
Yes, you now have the power to ignore anyone or anything. Let me demonstrate. If your ignore list contains:
fopp teddy evil then any time something with any of those words is said (or done) near you, you just ignore it as if it was not said (or done). You would miss out on things like "Teddy smiles" and "wolis says 'hear no evil'"
Use your new powers wisely
Talking of wise, the ability to create objects of worth was momentarily broken and is now fixed.. apparently. SO enjoy your new abilities to create a cricket bat worth 25 pennies. Have you visited the bank lately?
New bin in town 12 Jul 2005
Thanks to some fancy footwork by wolis we now have a new rubbish bin which holds all of your deleted items. This give everyone a randomly short time to retrieve them.
And in some related news, you will find that find and goto wont locate anything that is hidden.
Now for some completely un-related news, there are rumours that a new shop is opening up in cow with some very exciting and must-have gift-wear.
Follow the leader 10 Jul 005
Thanks to some new sticky stuff invented by wolis you will now take objects with you if youa re wearing them or they are on you in some way.
"Why not create a lovely hat. paint it as white. wear it" suggested wolis "then when you go somewhere you will still be wearing it"
This also applies to any objects on the objects you bring with you so put a mouse on your hat, and a flower beside the mouse and a bee in the flower they all come with you.
A new command called carry allows you to cary things - mind you you have to push them to drop them.
And for giving people a guided tour, the new follow command alls people to follow you (or you follow them) again push to stop following.
First bank of cow opens 7 Jul 2005
With much fan-fair and celibration the First bank of cow opens its doors.
"Its all quite simple" said the bank clark, "Just drop something of worth and I take it away. During the day I dabble in the stock market, increase its worth and the very next day I drop your item ready for you to collect".
The bank also has a cashiers desk where you can liquidate your assests and convert your unwanted objects into pennies. "Sort of like a cash converters" said the cashier "Only with a more serious face."
"I highly recommend their services" said wolis who was there at the official opening.
On a completely different note we now have confirmed reports of a new cowiverse. You can find it here http://cow.bur.st
If you shout or say something loudly in this cowiverse it can be heard in the other.
Please note they are completely seperate cowiverses and nothing but loud noises can travel through the wormhole that has opened up between them. It look like this cow only older, with not all of the same objects. Some of you may find you have a doppleganger over there, others may not.
Only venture through the wormhole if your feeling adventerous as nothing is very stable and could dissapear any second!
As yet, we have not worked out how to travel between the cowiverses and bring objects with you.
Fashion with Jemilly 2 Jul 2005
This is the weekly fashion news with COW's very own superstar Jemilly! This weeks colours happen to be a nice reddish pinkish colour! such as the wonderful colours of the traditional red or pink or maybe the variations of these colours such as a crimson or Xiii's favourite, fuchsia.
So change that blue into a pink or red with a nice accessory like a nice warm red skarf or a nice oddly coloured tie will do the trick this week
Stop Press: The training shed, newly erected in the open field, is open and welcoming new and old to learn some valuable lessons in cow.
Drop in some time and listen to the wise old tiny robot.
Of cause, and Im sure this need not be said, if you think the tiny robot is mistaken or forgetting some vital piece of information, just send a message to wolis who is keen to have everything ins perfect working order.
Fear not 28 Jun 2005
Cow life returns to normal thanks to some exhaustive detective work by wolis. "It was a tricky one" said wolis as he wiped sweat from his brow, "some cheeky monkey had been spiriting away any second commands you happend to make and replace them with the initial command".
Confused, I asked wolis to explain some more "well its like this: image in you have three bananas and you want to put them in a small metal box. Now along comes a cheeky monkey who changes the box into a stone castle and each of your bananas into places and times of long past. Now remember the last banana you didnt want to.." at this point I walk away from wolis as he continues to describe things way beyond comprehention.
So lets move on to more friendly topics, apparently xiii has seen the Tardis in an competely unexpected place. Mind you the Tardis always ends up un unexpected places so this is quite expected really.
If you look carfully for the picture of the Tardis (it may be somewhere in the Library) you will see xiii and wolis, momentarily looking like gold fish as they study the Tardis.
Duplicate complexity 28 Jun 2005
Much to the shock and horror of cowillians everywhere, building has become a bit of a complex process if you try and be too complex yourself.
Basically, the build command is, for no particular reason, making a duplicate of itself only named as a number, only, and I mean only, if you try and do a dot space command after it.
Confused? Don't panic, If you just keep life simple and build something then later on lock it then again later on paint it, all will be right with the world.
As always wolis has his magnifying glass out to see if he can see the cause of this unseen problem. "I belive" he said "Its got something to do with money".
As always things will return to normal (?) shortly.
In a rich objects world 24 Jun 2005
A new bank will be opening a branch somewhere in cowland soon and to get cowillians entused with the idea, each and every person will be given 100 pennies! Yes, you heard me correctly, one onedread smackeroonies (hmm now maybe we should change our currency to smackeroons instead of pennies?)
Unfortunatly the powers that be belive that creating objects should incure some minor cost so each and every object will now cost you 1 penny to create.
One penny that is unless you specify otherwise. Rich cowillians may choose to invest some of their hard-earned (!?!) pennies into an object of their creation in this fashion create a fancy object worth 4 pennies
or create a piece of cheese which is slightly mouldy worth 24 pennies
Just remember that not specifying the worth of an object makes it 1 penny.
When the bank eventualy opens you will be able to invest objects of worth in it and trade in old objects of worth to increase your wealth not dis-similar to selling.
other late-breaking news: recursive and repetitive activity must stop, soonish.
Some of you may be away of the argumet that has broken out between the two angry people in the new town. Yes, they have toned down their voices but they are a shuning example of how repetition can get quite anoying.
To make everyones life in cow that little bit nicer (and faster) anyone showing the slightest incling of being repetative or recursive or plain old loopy will eventually get tired and give up.
The hills are alive 19 Jun 2005
with the sound of music, and so too are cowillians with the new sounds that will be popping up here and there.
Waking should be accompanied by an audible pop, however some cowillians may not want to hear sounds, or any have hearing difficulties.
To each and every one of you I pose this question: Can you hear it?
If you are having difficulties you can probably solve it in Quick Time.
Just remember this is your world too so feel free to let wolis know what you think about sounds in cow.
Have fun now.
Comfort Room Open for Business 18 Jun 2005
The Comfort Room is Open for Business in Jacqui. If you have problems I have created the Listening Machine. Tell the Machine your Problems and it will listen willingly.
There is also a Grand Piano for those who put all there emotions into music there is a Grand piano in there.
There are also A number of Comforting things in there and If you want to go there, I suggest you goto the Comfort (it is pink).
So summing the entire article up in a sentence, The Comfort Room is OPEN FOR BUSINESS!
Kudos to Wolis for helping me code the listening Machine.
By Jacqui
Frozen moments 17 Jun 2005
Some of the more dedicated cowilians may have noticed the world of cow got a little cold, nay chilly, no completly frozen today.
It turns out this unusual and completly uncharacteristic behaviour was the results of an argument, egged on by josh.
They argued so much noone could get a word in (or log in).
I had to take them all to a councellor to get the argument sorted out once and for all so we could go about our business in peace.. and thankfully the councelling session worked.
So welcome back to the carm and normal world of cow. and remember you can email wm@wolispace.com if things dont seem quite wright in the world.
Fashion 14 Jun 2005
The new colours are in for this week and the answer to all your problems is blue! Change from that boring old green and turn it into a nice royal blue which wolis shuld have because he is a god. So change from a boring blue into the nice new blue! and remember, BLUE IS YOU! Written entirely by Jemilly and Co.
Mall 13 Jun 2005
Once again I have heart felt message. Today I went into the mall to have shopping spreee and I go into Just Jeans. I walk in and I see nothing but me and the exit. I walked into further stors and found nothing again. I would like the creators of these stores to join in with the creating to get the creating count up to 6000. THis means nearly every room you go into the of something that would make it specialer. Josh has been doing such things like moving objects, paintingthem, Drawing them and describing them appropriatly. So please create more items and of course if you are going into the mall go into ALL the stores to try again the best object for your hard earned pennies.
The great upheaval 12 Jun 2005
This is almost nothing to do with cow but I just throught I should let everyone know about this.
Click: [read the great upheaval]
As you were.
I saw a neck 9 jun 2005
you may all happily rejoice in the knowledge that wolis has recovered from his sore neck. "Ah.. that feels much better" beamed wolis as he moved his head from side to side with nary a wince. "It came on suddenly and receaded slowly" nodded wolis, yet again demonstrating the free movement of his head.
Having said that wolis was last seen rubbing his tender neck muscles as it appears to be not completey recovered but he is in fine enough spirits to think it has.
Talking of fine spirits, you may all now ponder the intricacies of the universe with a new cow ability ponder the intricacies of the universe
There are also rumours that a new version of cow is on its way.. but they are mere rumours.. so too are the rumours of a new free cow server.. just wishfull thinking id say.
*Fashion Sense* 2 Jun 2005
Now I shall take advantage of the whole you know 2 newspapers. for all those people who are still loyal to the Daily COW and haven't heard the great news.The colour for this winter is green so get out of that boring old pink cloak and dust off that nice green tuxedo! By the way congrats to Maddie and YAY4JOSH and YAY4GREENCLOAKS!
So josh now you are out you can change into a nice hand knitted sweater that your grandma made you last winter.
Thank you all and please heed my great advice because it could save your life.....( if you come across a monster that hates everything except green... wolis you might be cutting a little close)
3 crows for angel_maddie 1 Jun 2005
Hurray for angel_maddie!! she not only found the little crowbar josh so deseratly needed to escape his cow costume, but she also used it on josh and got him out!
"it as getting mighty hot in there" sweated josh on as he emerged from the costume.
angel_maddie was reported to have danced around with joy and was last seen encouraging josh to follwo te current fashions and find a new grean jumper.
"I found a yellowgreen cloak, sort of half way between yellow and green" said wolis, shortly after watching the dramatic rescue of josh from his cow costume.
Talking of dramatic rescues, wolis was also present when josh returned the missing rusty hammer to the quest maker. "I was given a valuable item worth over 40 penies" beamed josh as hea eaded off to sell it at the central market.
And talking of the central market, you may be tempted to buy the magic scroll. I have heard that it really opens your eyes to the amazing mysteries of cow.
"I just sat back and enjoyed the ride" was all wolis would say, then he added "getting it back to the central market to sell again as a bit tricky, but thats half the fun".
wolis was heard to mumble something about dot space being most valuable but I see it nowhere for sale in the central market.
Get that Goat 31 May 2005
Cowilians beware.. there is an experimental goat which is eating things in cow!. "It was a simple goat really" bemoaned wolis "you give it something to eat, it chews it for a while then make some yummy goats milk cheese". The trouble is, its a goat, and goats will eat anything. "On returning to my office I discover much more cheese than I expected" puzzled wolis who only gave it two things to eat so only expect two lots of cheese "but somehow it had fond some other objects in cow to eat, all by itself, and converted them to cheese".
Wolis could tell this as some of the cheese was rather like a doorway and other cheeses were locked (of all things!).
"I have put the goat in a quiet place and hope its does not to eat anyhting but what it was given. In the mean time" proclaimed wolis "I hope to identify thises poor cheesified objects and return them to their rightful place and state in cow".
If you are wondering where that gleaming gold door to the kitchen went, the goat may have eaten it! Dont panic tho.. it will be returned in the fullness of time.
On the topic of rampant eating, the bargin hunter in the start. north. go to the central market accidentally bought the fair trader! "I dont like this, I dont like it one bit" cried the fair trader. The trouble is the bargin hunter bought the fair trader fair and square in a completely legal transaction.
"oh well" sighed the fair trader "Its a fair cop. Ill just have to by myself back again" which is what the fair trader has now sucessfully done and all is well in the central market again.