Archive for February, 2005
Post Six Grrrl Melody Parks
The Herald is happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, even on time this week! Her name is Melody Parks. She says that she really enjoys both wandering around SecondLife and modeling. The Herald would like to take this opportunity to thank Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine for these pictures and [...]
Full StoryOutrage Over W-Hat Twin Towers Meets PoMoBabble Defense
by Brody MacDonald and Walker Spaight New controversy erupted recently over a W-Hat build in Baku sim depicting New York City’s World Trade Center towers under attack, as they were on September 11, 2001. But in addition to questions of taste, both the build and the community’s reaction to it also raise questions about just [...]
Full StoryCousin Vincenzo’s Looking Glass War
In the hall of mirrors that is the SL mafia scene, alliegances come and go quickly and deception and betrayal are the order of the day. Vincenzo Gillespie worked for Vincent Stravinsky who in turn was in business with underworld power couple Gina Fatale and Marsellus Wallace. Vincenzo says he was hired to hit Cinda [...]
Full StoryLand Ho!
(Image stolen from secondlife.com) A new world (or at least a new sim or three) has apparently been discovered north of the SL grid.
Full StoryExtinct Native American Tribe Finds Second Wind
by Neal Stewart Duuya Herbst, taking the tribe to SL “The tribes are taking over the world [...] Tribes are agendas. Aesthetics. Ethos. Traditions. Ways of getting things done. They’re competitive. They may not all be based on time-zones. There are knitting Tribes and vampire fan-fiction Tribes and Christian rock tribes, but they’ve always existed.”– [...]
Full StoryDiary of a Second Life Noob, part 2
by Montserrat Snakeankle [In Montserrat's last entry, posted many many SL moons ago, we found her coping with inadequate hardware and a failed attempt to enter SL. In this post, after a $2K upgrade, Montserrat gets back on the horse that threw her.]
Full StoryRising from the Ashes: The SimCast Gaming System
by Matthias Zander Many remember the splitting of ways that the SimCast development team suffered in November of last year, and the call for an open-source gaming system that followed. This was all caused by the departure of the project’s head programmer, Azelda Garcia. Like the mythical phoenix, however, the project has risen from the [...]
Full Story‘people think I’m teh sexy’: A Conversation With SL’s Charles Manson Stalker
by Neal Stewart grandduke Ferdinand, sometime Charles-Manson-look-alike. Stalker or teh sexy? Griefer or misunderstood? Recently, a Second Life resident reported on her blog an incident that she had experienced in-world: For some time, an avatar dressed as Charles Manson had hung around the bedroom of her virtual residence, watching her and brandishing a knife. She [...]
Full StoryPost Six Grrrl Daphne Molinari
The Herald is pleased to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, just a day later than usual because of some server problems we’ve been experiencing. This week’s girl is Daphne Molinari. Daphne is a long-time resident of SecondLife who is very involved in the modeling world, being an officer of the Top Models group [...]
Full StoryHellsing Hath no Fury Like Jenna Scorned
Jenna Fairplay: dethroned dwell queen, but still queen of negs given In a story that has it all — adult clubs, jealousy, specious abuse reporting, alleged Linden favoratism, and Arab-American tensions — it appears that dethroned dwell queen Jenna Fairplay has successfully organized an abuse reporting campaign against rival club owner Hellsing King (owner of [...]
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