Archive for March, 2005

In Memory of Candace Bolter, aka Kale

Candace Bolter (1978-2005) This past Monday, Herald co-founder and legal editor Candace Bolter (better known by her TSO name of Kale) passed away after a battle with a string of illnesses ranging from cancer to heart disease to lupus. She was 27 years old.

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What Lies Beneath: A Meditation on the Digisoul

by Budka Groshomme When I was a kid I wondered, as most of my era did, whether the light in the icebox really went out when the door closed. Several attempts at divining this led only to a pinched nose. Although I have grown more careful about where I stick my nose since then, my [...]

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The Other Shoe Drops: Insider Selling at EA is Followed by 13% Stock Drop — Stockholders Sue

EA’s Vice President for Corporate Communications, Jeff Brown: “we intend to vigorously defend the company.” Well, as much as it just kills us to say we told you so, we told you so. Several weeks ago we reported that several EA executives were dumping shares of EA stock. Insider trading? Jeff Brown said no, which [...]

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Squags Takes a Break

Uri at anInfoNet terminal, network developed and maintained by Squagmire Stravinsky Squagmire Stravinsky, well known instructor at the Cloud City Campus and architect and manager of InfoNet, is standing down from operations. Citing griefers, demanding and disrespectful students, and a failure of promised help to materialize in the construction of Cloud City, Squags has said [...]

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Virtually In Love

The Herald is proud to introduce the writing debut of Second Life’s famous nostril-wrestling, Linden-pashing, fashion designer and all-round social butterfly – Aimee Weber. Aimee takes a look at spring-romance, in this that special time of year when, as my parents explained it, all the birds make sweet, sweet love to all the bees singing [...]

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Op/Ed: Linden Labs and Griefers – Hands on or off?

by Neal Stewart OKKKAY? One of the perks of working for the Herald, other than the sex, drugs and heavy metal music… and the power… and the riches… other than those, one of… and the fame…. other than those, one of the perks is being able to pass your forum posts off as Op/Ed’s. The [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Diamond Hope

The Herald is now very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Diamond Hope! Diamond is a gorgeous lady who you certainly don’t want to mess with if you’re at “da Penthouse,” the club she is security for, and was discovered by the Herald’s own Walker Spaight. We would also like to take [...]

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Off the Grid with Walker Spaight: The Making of a Post Six Grrrl

Diamond Hope, Post Six Grrrl When I first met Diamond Hope she was standing in Walleye sim wearing shorts, white boots and a skimpy white halter top, a pistol strapped to her right thigh. A ribbon of thong peeked out from below her shorts, inviting my imagination. My imagination, I’m not ashamed to say, took [...]

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Linden Lab Supports Invasion of Your Privacy?

New friend…. or spy for your girlfriend? A look at the recent dust-up over detective agencies By Cienna Samiam My editor asked me if I would be interested in doing a story about in-world detective agencies. I scanned the forums and noted the several threads [1, 2, 3] on the matter, read Hamlet’s “Mc-Story” and [...]

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Editorial: Save the Oil Rig!

The ANWR oil rig Having now explored where only Lindens had gone before and after reading What Philip Said At the Oil Rig on Wednesday night and other SL forum threads, the Herald’s editorial board feels it important that the Lindens consider preserving some of the landmark builds that made the new northern continent a [...]

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