Archive for July, 2005

Introducing the Herald Phunny Pages

The Herald is pleased to announce the appointment of SL resident Brian Mifflin to the cosmically prestigous position of Herald Phunny Page Editor. We will be publishing a weekly comic strip and occasional cartoons with SL subject matter. Contact Brian in game if you wish to be a contributor. (Yes we pay). We begin by [...]

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Skin Review: Logan Bauer

The Herald has decided to take a bit of a break from the five skin reviews originally planned as our first five to review a couple of other skin makers first, some well-known, some not, and some known better for other things altogether. Today, I’m reviewing a male skin by Logan Bauer. Logan made his [...]

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Teledildonics Comes to SL!!?

Tired of typing with one hand? Well, maybe this is another teledildonics hoax and maybe it isn’t (I’ll ask our ever vigilent readers to do the requisite research) but Slashdong.org claims to have introduced hardware (and requisite interface software) that will maker your SL Sexy Skybox cybering liasons more… well, more vibrant and penetrating. Since [...]

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Post Six Grrrl Elaine Marlowe

The Herald is happy to present to you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Elaine Marlowe! Elaine is a very busy person who recently opened up an all-male mall in the Fundama sim, and evidently understand the pains that all of us guys go through to attempt to find good clothing! I’d like to take a [...]

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The Surrealistic Playground of Brainiac HQ

by Leon Mechanique Where the brains are There’s just something about visiting Deevyde Maelstrom’s Brainiac HQ that really gets the mind working in odd rhythm’s. When the Herald asked me to check out the new games Deevyde released in July, I thought to myself, “That sounds like fun” (and “I could make a few quick [...]

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Putting the Wind in SL’s Sails

by Eloise Pasteur Racing the winds of Second Life Last week, the Second Life Sailing Federation (SLSF) held its first large race, not around an island within a sim, but around islands over a route through several sims. “So what?” you may be thinking. “Boats have been around in SL since the very early days, [...]

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Suspended Reporter Returns to Teen Grid

Second Age reporter, 782 We recently reported that Teen Grid denizen (and Second Age reporter) 782 had been suspended for contact with an adult within the SL Teen Grid. According to sources familiar with the case, the suspension occurred when 782 had contact with a Teen Grid avatar named Ray Geer, which the Lindens later [...]

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Photo Essay: A Day at the Races

I suddenly had an urge to see auto racing in SL, and checked my events list on the off chance there might be such, and what do ya know, there was! I dropped in on the Tahiti International Raceway which is floating up above Tahiti Isle. As you might expect, sitting above a Mall is [...]

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WTF? Teen on Teen Grid Suspended (Banned?) for Associating with Adult??

The Second Age blog — our window onto the Teen Grid – has had one of its reporters — named “782″ –banned from the game and the forum for associating with an adult. Which of course leads us to ask: why the fuck was an adult in there? Here is the note that the reporter [...]

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Lindens Poach 2

David Parks Lindens have hired There cofounder Jeffrey Ventrella, and Dave Parks from RIT”s MUPPETS project — an academic/educational/open source version of SL. Zero Grace and the commentors on Cory’s blog are all sprung over the hiring of Ventrella, but I always figure you get more mileage from a mutant undergrad computer graphics d000d, and [...]

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