Archive for April, 2005

The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (2/2)

By Neal Stewart It’s the quick and the dead in Second Life. The murdered hooker I found at Baku today is not the murdered hooker she was yesterday. Yesterday’s corpse had character. A furry, she lay there with eyes closed and brows wrenched, as though her eternal sleep was wrought by nightmares. And who could [...]

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The W-Hat Birthday: Cake, Ice Cream and Murdered-Hooker Bloodbath (1/2)

By Neal Stewart 24 hours ago, the W-Hats celebrated their 1-Year Birthday in Second Life at their “W-Hat Super Happy Fun Time Land”. “Cake and ice cream for every girl and boy!”, read the event listing. In classic W-Hat fashion, a host of neon pigs, robots, smoking chimpanzees and wheelchair-bound Mad-Hatters laughed and danced away [...]

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Fashion Show Review: Dark Angels

by Matthias Zander Tonight’s fashion show (once again by BeCa Models, but the next one that I could actually cover after the last one), once more at E City, featured Angenlina Becquerel and Simmy Lomax of Dark Angels Designs. Though only the first 10 (and a half) outfits were shown, it was quite successful, as [...]

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Post Six Grrrl – wench Phaeton

The Herald is pleased to present this week’s Post Six Grrrl – wench Phaeton. Wench helps run Transylvania, and manages the Gothique Mall there. A big thank you goes out to Marilyn Murphy, the publisher of Players Magazine (available at Semang (208, 170)), who is responsible for these pictures and all of the Herald’s Post [...]

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New Scientist: The Walls are Crumbling!

New Scientist has a short article on how Sony’s new Station Exchange (reported earlier in the Herald) is yet more evidence of the crumbling walls between the real world and virtual worlds. Of course we’ve heard this from the French before, but this time they quote a real live American Philosopher from a land grant [...]

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Fashion Show Review: Fallingwater Cellardoor and HoseQueen McLean

by Matthias Zander In light of the riveting story that Chipsen broke to us this morning, I decided that it was time for the Herald’s fashion department to kick into full gear and begin production of reviews of fashion shows and clothing lines by some of SL’s more recognisable designers. Tonight’s topic is the fashion [...]

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DoveVogue Drama?

by Chipsen Queso Those who follow the fashion scene in SecondLife undoubtably know about the DoveVogue Runway Studios owned and operated by Palomma Casanova in Davvi. Over the past year, they have become a strong and leading force in the arena of fashion shows and an icon of the fashion industry in their own respect. [...]

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‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 2/2)

By Neal Stewart [Continued from Part I] Here is Part 2 of our interview with Ryan Dayton – the tech-savvy 14-year-old who claims to have made about $1000 US dollars in the 12 months he has been a Second Life resident. Ryan was banned 11 days ago when his mother revealed his real life age [...]

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The Scribes of Gor

Long time Herald readers will recall our coverage of the Gorean community on TSO – In particular our interviews with Mistress Maria and her slave Toy, and our frequent reports from the Black Rose Castle and Mistress Julianna and her slave Mikal. All of these people are now in SL, and I recently ran into [...]

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‘R.I.P Ryan Dayton’ – Teenage ‘Air’ Profits (Part 1/2)

By Neal Stewart I’m sitting at a vacant, shiny blue conference table in a meeting room at the top floor of Dayton Technologies HQ. Through the heavily-tinted windows I can see birds flying above the swaying palm trees outside. On the floor beneath me is the freshly-built coffin of Ryan Dayton himself. It is a [...]

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