Archive for December, 2005

LINDEN ADMITS TO INSIDER SNOW SIM DEAL ON TEEN GRID

By Dow Jonas In a fascinating glimpse into the life of teen-agers in Second Life and the internal pressures with which Lindens cope in their San Francisco office, a land scandal has emerged on the Teen Grid (TG) involving confirmed charges that Blue Linden gave a teen land buyer an unfair insiders’ heads-up about a [...]

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Post Six Grrrl dreams Anubis

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, dreams Anubis! Dreams is a long-time SecondLife resident who is very short-winded and who loves building and making textures in PhotoShop! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this Post Six Grrrl.

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Major Chinese Gold Farming Operations Exposed in Tomorrow’s NY Times

There is a fantastic article by David Barboza in tomorrow’s (Friday) New York Times, but it is already up on the site of the International Herald Tribune if you want a peek. It is only the second case that I know of, where the reporter actually went and visited gold farming operations. I talked to [...]

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Unleash Your Inner Hordeling

If you’ve grown tired of the burdens that accompany membership in that most august group of Second Life residents, the Feted Inner Core, now there’s a solution. Just VW-hop on over to World of Warcraft and join the Feted Inner Horde, a new guild on WoW’s Lightninghoof server composed entirely of Second Life residents, complete [...]

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Zero Grace to take SXSW on Sex-in-Games Gutter Crawl: Panel of Degenerates to include Herald Editorial Director

In yet another sign of the end times and/or the ascendency of what those in the moment call The Herald Aesthetic, the Interactive Component of the world famous South by Southwest conference in Austin Texas will feature a panel on the secret sex lives of video games. According to Zero Grace, aka Tony Walsh, on [...]

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EXTRA! EXTRA! BARONS LOSE BIG WITH TELEHUB REMOVALS; ANSHE STARTS CASH OUT

All that’s left of a once busy SL Telehub by Dow Jonas In a move that is likely to cause profound economic and social changes to Second Life, Linden Lab announced last week in the official Linden forums that it will be enabling the platform for point-to-point teleporting (p2p) and removing telehubs, the main portals [...]

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EVE Extra: Deep-Space Outpost Goes Public in $8,100 Deal

It’s no mistake that EVE Online‘s player organizations are known as corporations. Though Second Life has seen a number of start-ups that have required resident stakeholding and investment, a recent IPO by EVE corp Interstellar Starbase Syndicate has set a new mark for virtual-world business dealings, having raised 36 billion in InterStellar Kredits, the equivalent [...]

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Fashion Show Review: DreamBuilders Mall

by Chipsen Queso Fresh on the heels of my last highly-commented fashion show review from Cloud Nine, I decided to go out today to a show for an agency I hadn’t previously heard of – the Divine Dreams Models. The show featured designs by Sparkle Designs (Leona Kitty), Avide (Inari Saito), and Whispers by Zelinna [...]

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W-Hats to Build Set for Next Presidential Speech?

That’s a suggestion posted to this discussion on the Democratic Underground web site (scroll down for a screen shot taken in Second Life). Yep, Bush and the W-Hats — imagine the possibilities.

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Post Six Grrrl Ava Fleming

The Herald is very happy to bring you this week’s Post Six Grrrl, Ava Fleming! Ava has a personal consulting business within SecondLife to help you with all of your personal consulting needs and says that she loves riding her SL horse! Our thanks to Heart Wishbringer and Joe Stravinsky for photographing and submitting this [...]

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